Single Patient Protocol for Donor HCV-positive to Recipient HCV-negative Kidney Transplant in a Patient at Risk for Loss of Dialysis Access

Summary

This is a single patient, single center study evaluating if administration of pan-genotypic DAA therapy on day 3 (+/- 2 days) post-kidney transplant prevents the transmission of hepatitis C virus infection from an HCV-positive donor kidney to an HCV-negative recipient.

Timeline

Start

2020-11-13

Primary completion

2021-08-04

Completion

2021-08-04

Publications

• Background Goldberg DS, Abt PL, Blumberg EA, Van Deerlin VM, Levine M, Reddy KR, Bloom RD, Nazarian SM, Sawinski D, Porrett P, Naji A, Hasz R, Suplee L, Trofe-Clark J, Sicilia A, McCauley M, Farooqi M, Gentile C, Smith J, Reese PP. Trial of Transplantation of HCV-Infected Kidneys into Uninfected Recipients. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 15;376(24):2394-2395. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1705221. Epub 2017 Apr 30. No abstract available.
• Background Reau N, Kwo PY, Rhee S, Brown RS Jr, Agarwal K, Angus P, Gane E, Kao JH, Mantry PS, Mutimer D, Reddy KR, Tran TT, Hu YB, Gulati A, Krishnan P, Dumas EO, Porcalla A, Shulman NS, Liu W, Samanta S, Trinh R, Forns X. Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir Treatment in Liver or Kidney Transplant Patients With Hepatitis C Virus Infection. Hepatology. 2018 Oct;68(4):1298-1307. doi: 10.1002/hep.30046. Epub 2018 Jul 25.
• Background Durand CM, Bowring MG, Brown DM, Chattergoon MA, Massaccesi G, Bair N, Wesson R, Reyad A, Naqvi FF, Ostrander D, Sugarman J, Segev DL, Sulkowski M, Desai NM. Direct-Acting Antiviral Prophylaxis in Kidney Transplantation From Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Donors to Noninfected Recipients: An Open-Label Nonrandomized Trial. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Apr 17;168(8):533-540. doi: 10.7326/M17-2871. Epub 2018 Mar 6.
• Background Sise ME, Goldberg DS, Kort JJ, Schaubel DE, Alloway RR, Durand CM, Fontana RJ, Brown RS Jr, Friedewald JJ, Prenner S, Landis JR, Fernando M, Phillips CC, Woodle ES, Rike-Shields A, Sherman KE, Elias N, Williams WW, Gustafson JL, Desai NM, Barnaba B, Norman SP, Doshi M, Sultan ST, Aull MJ, Levitsky J, Belshe DS, Chung RT, Reese PP. Multicenter Study to Transplant Hepatitis C-Infected Kidneys (MYTHIC): An Open-Label Study of Combined Glecaprevir and Pibrentasvir to Treat Recipients of Transplanted Kidneys from Deceased Donors with Hepatitis C Virus Infection. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Nov;31(11):2678-2687. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020050686. Epub 2020 Aug 25.

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