Minimizing Toxicity in HLA-identical Sibling Donor Transplantation for Children With Sickle Cell Disease
Robert Nickel
Summary
This multisite prospective study seeks to determine if HLA-identical sibling donor transplantation using alemtuzumab, low dose total-body irradiation, and sirolimus (Sickle transplant Using a Nonmyeloablative approach, "SUN") can decrease the toxicity of transplant while achieving a high cure rate for children with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Description
This is a prospective, multicenter phase II study of HLA-identical sibling donor HSCT in 30 pediatric patients with SCD using nonmyeloablative conditioning with alemtuzumab, total-body irradiation, and sirolimus. The primary Objective of this study is to determine if the SUN regimen can decrease the incidence of grade II-IV acute graft-versus host disease (GVHD) by day +100 while maintaining similar disease-free survival compared to establish HLA-identical donor hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) regimens in children with SCD. The secondary Objective is to determine if health-related qu…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 2–25 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion criteria: Patients with genotypes hemoglobin SS and Sβ0 thalassemia must have at least one of the following: * History of an abnormal transcranial Doppler measurement defined as TCD velocity ≥200 cm/sec by the non-imaging technique (or ≥185 cm/sec by the imaging technique) measured at a minimum of two separate occasions. * History of cerebral infarction on brain MRI (overt stroke, or silent stroke if ≥3 mm in one dimension, visible in two planes on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery T2-weighted images). * History of two or more episodes of acute chest syndrome (ACS) in lifetime. *…
Interventions
- DrugAlemtuzumab, low dose total body irradiation, Sirolimus
The conditioning regimen (SUN regimen) will consist of alemtuzumab daily for 5 days (total dose 1 mg/kg) and low dose total body irradiation (TBI) 300 cGY on Day -2 with gonadal shielding if possible. The HSCT graft will be G-CSF mobilized PBSCs with minimum CD34+ of 5 x106/kg recipient weight, goal of 10 x 106/kg (no upper limit). A peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) graft was selected as it engrafts faster than bone marrow and would lead to shorter period of neutropenia and infection and less thrombocytopenia and need for platelet transfusion. GVHD prophylaxis will be sirolimus with a loading dose 3 mg/m2 on day -1. Sirolimus will be continued at 1 mg/m2/day starting on day 0 and dose adjusted to maintain a target trough level 5-15 ng/mL for the first 3 months and 5-10 ng/mL for the remainder of the first year.
Locations (7)
- Children's National Health SystemWashington D.C., District of Columbia
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoChicago, Illinois
- Columbia UniversityNew York, New York
- Levine Children's HospitalCharlotte, North Carolina
- Nationwide Children's HospitalColumbus, Ohio
- Alberta Children's HospitalCalgary, Alberta