Clinical trial NCT01763099: Mesenchymal Stem Cells Combined With Cord Blood for Treatment of Graft Failure
Official title: Mesenchymal Stem Cells Combined With Cord Blood for Treatment of Graft Failure Following Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Umbilical Cord Blood
Graft Failure
Hematological Diseases
Keywords: Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Cord Blood
Graft failure
Lead sponsor: Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Peking University People's Hospital
name: Sun Yat-sen University
name: Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital
name: Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command
name: Southern Medical University, China
name: Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
name: Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
name: Guangzhou First People's Hospital
name: Zhongshan People's Hospital, Guangdong, China
First posted: 2013-01-08
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of treating patients experiencing graft failure after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with ex-vivo-expanded BM-drived mesenchymal stem cells from third-party donors or mesenchymal stem cells combined with cord blood. The first objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of such treatment on graft failure, and second object was to investigate the safety of such treatment.

Detailed description: Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT) are considered the standard of care for many malignancies, such as lymphoma, myeloma and some leukemias, and so on. Graft failure after auto-HSCT is a formidable complication. It occurs in 2-9.5% of patients and is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality related to infections and hemorrhagic complications. There are various options for the management of graft failure. The most common treatment of graft failure is growth factors such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)and recombinant erythropoietin,but it usually effective in the short term and no effect on platelet counts.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a form of multipotent adult stem cells that can be isolated from bone marrow (BM), adipose tissue, and cord blood. Clinical applications of human MSCs are evolving rapidly with goals of improving hematopoietic engraftment, preventing and treating graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and so on.As an important source of hematopoietic stem cell, cord blood has been widely used in clinical practice. It is reported that cord blood combined with MSCs can increase engraftment after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, to our knowledge, the report about efficacy of treatment of graft that develops after auto-HSCT using expanded BM-derived MSCs from a third-party donor combined with cord blood is absent.If such treatment could be shown to be effective and safe, BM-derived MSCs could potentially be used as an universal donor material. This would have a major impact because the generation of donor-specific MSCs is time-consuming, costly, and often impractical if the clinical status of a patient is urgent.

In the present study, the investigators will prospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of ex-vivo-expanded BM-derived MSCs from third-party donors or MSCs combined with cord blood in treating patients with graft failure after auto-HSCT.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* A patient age of 14-65 years
* Graft failure developing after auto-HSCT
* Subjects (or their legally acceptable representatives) must have signed an informed consent document indicating that they understand the purpose of and procedures required for the study and are willing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any abnormality in a vital sign (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate, or blood pressure)
* Patients with any conditions not suitable for the trial (investigators' decision)

Primary outcomes:
measure: hematopoietic recovery
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: infections, primary underlying disease relapse and any toxic side effects of MSCs treatment
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Guangzhou
country: China
facility: Department of Hematology,Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
state: Guangdong
Study officials:
affiliation: Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
name: Qifa Liu, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Koc ON, Lazarus HM. Mesenchymal stem cells: heading into the clinic. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2001 Feb;27(3):235-9. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702791.
citation: Smith AR, Wagner JE. Alternative haematopoietic stem cell sources for transplantation: place of umbilical cord blood. Br J Haematol. 2009 Oct;147(2):246-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07828.x.