A Pilot Trial of Pediatric Liver Transplantation Without Steroids

Phase 3 Terminated 15 enrolled Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Roche Pharma AG · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

Objective: The overall objective is to investigate whether a steroid free immunosuppressive regimen is as safe and effective as a steroid containing regimen following pediatric liver transplantation and whether it promotes tolerance.

Timeline

Start: 2008-06
Primary completion: 2011-08
Completion: 2011-08

Publications

Background Sarwal MM, Vidhun JR, Alexander SR, Satterwhite T, Millan M, Salvatierra O Jr. Continued superior outcomes with modification and lengthened follow-up of a steroid-avoidance pilot with extended daclizumab induction in pediatric renal transplantation. Transplantation. 2003 Nov 15;76(9):1331-9. doi: 10.1097/01.TP.0000092950.54184.67.
Background Vidhun JR, Sarwal MM. Corticosteroid avoidance in pediatric renal transplantation. Pediatr Nephrol. 2005 Mar;20(3):418-26. doi: 10.1007/s00467-004-1786-4. Epub 2005 Feb 3.
Background Leonard H, Hornung T, Parry G, Dark JH. Pediatric cardiac transplant: results using a steroid-free maintenance regimen. Pediatr Transplant. 2003 Feb;7(1):59-63. doi: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2003.00014.x.
Background Walsh PT, Taylor DK, Turka LA. Tregs and transplantation tolerance. J Clin Invest. 2004 Nov;114(10):1398-403. doi: 10.1172/JCI23238.
Background Yoshizawa A, Ito A, Li Y, Koshiba T, Sakaguchi S, Wood KJ, Tanaka K. The roles of CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells in operational tolerance after living donor liver transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2005 Jan-Feb;37(1):37-9. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.12.259.
Background Hathaway M, Adams DH. Demonstration that donor-specific nonresponsiveness in human liver allograft recipients is both rare and transient. Transplantation. 2004 Apr 27;77(8):1246-52. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000121136.84965.35.
Background Arora-Gupta N, Davies P, McKiernan P, Kelly DA. The effect of long-term calcineurin inhibitor therapy on renal function in children after liver transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2004 Apr;8(2):145-50. doi: 10.1046/j.1399-3046.2003.00132.x.
Background Evans HM, McKiernan PJ, Kelly DA. Mycophenolate mofetil for renal dysfunction after pediatric liver transplantation. Transplantation. 2005 Jun 15;79(11):1575-80. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000163504.29054.3f.
Background Kelly D, Jara P, Rodeck B, Lykavieris P, Burdelski M, Becker M, Gridelli B, Boillot O, Manzanares J, Reding R. Tacrolimus and steroids versus ciclosporin microemulsion, steroids, and azathioprine in children undergoing liver transplantation: randomised European multicentre trial. Lancet. 2004 Sep 18-24;364(9439):1054-61. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17060-8.
Background Reding R, Gras J, Sokal E, Otte JB, Davies HF. Steroid-free liver transplantation in children. Lancet. 2003 Dec 20;362(9401):2068-70. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15104-5.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Hydrocortisone	Other / unclassified	—	—
Comparator	Methylprednisolone	Other / unclassified	—	—
Comparator	Prednisolone	Other / unclassified	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.