CMV T Cell Immunity in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

Completed

Conditions studied: Heart Transplant Infection, Kidney Transplant Infection, Liver Transplant Infection, CMV

In brief

CMV infection and disease remain a significant clinical challenge for pediatric solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Current prevention strategies are limited to prophylaxis in which antiviral medication is administered for a period of several months or preemption in which close monitoring of CMV viral load from the peripheral blood is performed and treatment is initiated when CMV is detected. Each of these strategies has risks, costs, and limitations associated with it. Recently, assays for measurement of an individual patient's CMV immunity have been developed and are clinically available. One of these is the Viracor CMV T cell Immunity Panel. This flow cytometry based assay is performed on peripheral blood and measures cytokine release in response to CMV antigen stimulation by flow cytometry. The thresholds for this assay that confer protection against CMV infection in pediatric SOT recipients are not known. Defining CMV-specific cell mediated immune response thresholds that confer protection against CMV reactivation could inform patient specific durations of antiviral prophylaxis or pre-emptive surveillance testing. Therefore, the objective of this study is to quantify CMVresponsive T lymphocyte populations by flow cytometry (Viracor CMV T cell Immunity Panel) in pediatric heart, kidney, and liver transplant recipients within the first year of transplantation and to investigate potential threshold values that correlate with protection against CMV infection (DNAemia).

Key facts

Study ID: NCT03924219
Run by: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
People needed: 161
Starts: 2019-06-03
Expected to finish: 2025-07-01
Last updated by the study team: 2026-03-27

Who can join

Age: any, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

< 18 years of age at the time of pre-transplant enrollment
Potential subject is undergoing evaluation or is currently listed for isolated heart, kidney, or liver transplantation at a participating transplant center OR is anticipated to undergo living-donor kidney or liver transplantation
Anticipated to receive ≤ 200 days of antiviral chemoprophylaxis
Note: Subjects who are consented, enrolled, and undergo transplantation at <18 years of age will remain in the study and be followed post-transplant according to the study plan after they turn 18 years of age. Subjects will be re-consented to remain in the study at their first study visit after turning 18 years of age.

You may not qualify if…

I. Exclusion Criteria pre-transplant
Prior history of any organ transplant
Prior history of hematopoietic cell transplant
Anticipated to receive more than one organ at the time of transplant
Anticipated to receive > 200 days of CMV antiviral chemoprophylaxis as part of the local transplant center's standard CMV prevention protocol
History of underlying primary (genetic) T cell immune deficiency
II. Exclusion Criteria post-enrollment A) Removal from study due to minimal risk for CMV infection
CMV seronegative children >= 12 months of age will be enrolled pre-transplant but will subsequently be excluded from the study IF they receive an organ from a CMV seronegative donor (CMV D-/R-).
Infants <12 months will be considered seronegative regardless of their CMV IgG status (whether or not this testing was obtained by the local transplant center) UNLESS the infant has a positive pre-transplant CMV culture (from urine) or a positive pre-transplant CMV PCR (from urine, saliva, or blood). Infants <12 months of age without evidence of prior CMV infection (as defined by these preceding criteria) will be excluded from post-transplant follow up IF they receive an organ from a CMV seronegative donor due to low risk for post-transplant CMV infection. Infants <12 months of age with evidence of prior CMV infection (as defined above) will remain in the study following transplantation.
B) Removal from study due to age
a. Subjects who are enrolled at <18 years of age but are not transplanted prior to their 18th birthday will be removed from the study and will not have further pre- or post-transplant follow up.

Where it is running

Stanford University Medical Center/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford — Stanford, California, United States
Emory University Medical Center/Children's Hospital of Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Northwestern University Medical Center/Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
Boston Children's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Children's Mercy Hospital — Kansas City, Missouri, United States
University of Nebraska Medical Center — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children's Hospital at Montefiore — New York, New York, United States
Duke University Medical Center/Duke Children's Hosptial — Durham, North Carolina, United States
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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