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Filter by:This study is designed to investigate the possible beneficial effects of UDCA on liver graft recovery early after adult liver transplantation.
In experimental and clinical settings it has been shown that transplant tolerance is possible. It has been suggested that regulatory T cells play a beneficial role in the establishment of tolerance. Calcineurin inhibitors may inhibit development of regulatory T cells. However, the influence of calcineurin inhibitors on markers of transplant tolerance has not been studied in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Currently the investigators conduct a study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a calcineurin inhibitor free immunosuppression in patients undergoing liver transplantation. In this study measurements of immune function and CD4+CD25high-Foxp3+-Il2/CD8+ status will also be performed. In parallel these measurements should be compared to a group of patients undergoing standard immunosuppression including calcineurin inhibitors.
Prevention of invasive fungal infection in high risk patients following liver transplant.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether hepatitis B immunoglobin can be discontinued early after hepatitis B virus (HBV) induced liver transplantation and be replaced by the nucleoside analogue entecavir to prevent hepatitis B reinfection.
In contrast to calcineurin inhibitors, sirolimus is known to exert remarkable tolerance-promoting properties in multiple animal transplant models. Whether sirolimus is capable of enhancing tolerance-related pathways and/or promoting complete withdrawal of immunosuppressive drugs in human transplant recipients has not been previously addressed. The goal of the investigators study is to evaluate the effects of sirolimus on previously identified tolerogenic pathways in humans and, indirectly, to assess the capacity of this drug to enhance the proportion of liver recipients undergoing successful immunosuppression weaning.
The primary objective of the trial is to evaluate efficacy and safety of delayed introduction (up to 30 days post-transplantation in patients without signs of acute rejection that had received an aIL-2 induction and MMF) of either cyclosporine or everolimus versus a 5-day delay of cyclosporine in combination with MMF.
To compare the safety and efficacy of Prograf® with Myfortic® to Advagraf® extended release tacrolimus with Myfortic® in de novo liver transplant recipients.
Comparison of 3 dosing regimens of Advagraf to determine if there is a dosing regimen which may have the potential to cause fewer kidney problems.
This study intends to see the effect of nafamostat on the attenuation of postreperfusion syndrome (PRS) that frequently occurs during liver transplantation.
In this study we aim to investigate to what extent the serum albumin concentration in liver transplant patients treated with mycophenolic acid (MPA) affect the free fraction of MPA. Furthermore we will investigate if a change in free fraction has implications for the immunosuppressive effect of MPA by measuring the IMPDH activity. This might in the future provide opportunity for further individualisation of the treatment with MPA. We will also investigate if the stabilizers present in pharmaceutical-grade albumin have a displacement effect on MPA in Vitro (ref).