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CompletedNCT03378817Updated Apr 7, 2020

Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion of Extended Criteria Kidney Allografts From Brain Death Donors

An interventional study of HOPE and Conventional cold storage in Reperfusion Injury and Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion, sponsored by University Hospital, Aachen. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-04-07.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Aachen · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
45
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Kidney transplantation (KT) has emerged as the mainstay of treatment for end-stage kidney disease. In an effort to address the widening gap between demand and supply of donor organs, there has been an increase in the numbers of "marginal" or functionally impaired renal allografts that had to be accepted for KT over the decades. The use of extended criteria donor (ECD) allografts is associated with a higher incidence of primary graft non-function (PNF) and/or delayed graft function (DGF). Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) has been successfully tested in pre-clinical experiments and in a few clinical series of donation after cardiac death (DCD) in liver transplantation. The present trial is an investigator-initiated pilot study on the effects of HOPE on ECD-allografts in donation after brain death (DBD) KT. Fifteen kidney allografts will be submitted to 2 hours of HOPE before implantation and are going to be compared to a case matched group transplanted after conventional cold storage (CCS).

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The present trial is an investigator-initiated pilot study on the effects of HOPE on ECD-allografts in DBD KT. Fifteen kidney allografts with defined inclusion/exclusion criteria will be submitted to 2 hours of HOPE via the renal artery before implantation and are going to be compared to a case matched group of 30 patients (1:2 matching) transplanted after CCS. Besides the clinical evaluation of HOPE-"reconditioned" allograft function, a targeted biomarker analysis is planned using tissue, serum, and urine samples as the translational and basic research aspect of the present study.

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Conditions studied

  • Reperfusion Injury
  • Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion

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Keywords

  • Extended criteria donor
  • Donation after brain death
  • HOPE
  • Kidney transplantation
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In context

Reperfusion Injury

260 studies on the registry are indexed under Reperfusion Injury; 43 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 45 is below the median of 60 across 212 interventional studies indexed under Reperfusion Injury.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Aachen is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Dialysis-requiring Patients, suffering from end stage kidney disease, listed for KT and receiving ECD organs at the Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. is obtained from all subjects participating in the trial by a qualified member of the study team.

ECD is defined as followed: deceased donors > 60 years and older, and those aged between 50-59 years with at least two of the following conditions: cerebrovascular cause of death, serum Creatinine greater than 1.5 mg/dL (132.6 µmol/L), history of arterial hypertension

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Recipients of living donor kidney transplants
  2. Previous kidney transplantation
  3. Participation in other kidney related trials
  4. The subject received an drug within 30 days prior to inclusion
  5. The subject is unwilling or unable to follow the procedures outlined in the protocol
  6. The subject is mentally or legally incapacitated
  7. Non-German or non-English speakers
  8. Family members of the investigators or employees of the participating department
  9. The subject is mentally or legally incapacitated
  10. The subject suffers from uncontrolled bacterial or viral infection
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
45 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Conventional cold storage

    Conventional static cold storage (CCS) on temperature 0-4 °C from organ procurement (historical case matched group)

    Other: Conventional cold storage

  • Experimental
    Hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE)

    HOPE for 1 hour via the renal artery in a recirculating and pressure controlled system, Belzer (UW) machine perfusion solution, perfusate temperature 0-4 °C, perfusate oxygenation pO2 of 60-80 kPa Other Name: Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP)

    Procedure: HOPE

Interventions

  • ProcedureHOPE

    HOPE for 1 hour via the renal artery in a recirculating and pressure controlled system, Belzer (UW) machine perfusion solution, perfusate temperature 0-4 °C, perfusate oxygenation pO2 of 60-80 kPa Other Name: Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP)

  • OtherConventional cold storage

    No intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. DGF

    DGF (defined as the need for dialysis in the first 7-days post-transplantation)

    Time frame: 7 days post-transplant

Secondary outcomes

  1. CRR2, CRR5

    Creatinine reduction ratio day 2 (CRR2= creatinine day 1-creatinine day 2/creatinine day 1) and CRR5 (CRR5=pre-transplant creatinine-creatinine day 5/pre-transplant creatinine)

    Time frame: 5 days post-transplant

  2. postoperative complications

    Clavien-Dindo complication score

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  3. Cumulative postoperative complications

    Comprehensive complication index (CCI)

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  4. Duration of intensive care stay

    Duration of ICU stay

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  5. Duration of hospital stay

    Duration of hospitalisation

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  6. Graft survival

    Six months graft survival

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  7. Renal function

    Renal function (serum creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR))

    Time frame: Subjects will be followed 6 months postoperatively

  8. Perfusion Parameter

    Flow and thus renal resistance

    Time frame: During HOPE

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Study locations

1 site
  • Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen
    Aachen, 52074, Germany
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References and documents

Publications

  • Meister FA, Czigany Z, Rietzler K, Miller H, Reichelt S, Liu WJ, Boecker J, Moeller MJ, Tolba RH, Hamesch K, Strnad P, Boor P, Stoppe C, Neumann UP, Lurje G. Decrease of renal resistance during hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion is associated with early allograft function in extended criteria donation kidney transplantation. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 20;10(1):17726. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74839-7. PubMed 33082420 ↗
  • Meister FA, Czigany Z, Bednarsch J, Bocker J, Amygdalos I, Morales Santana DA, Rietzler K, Moeller M, Tolba R, Boor P, Rohlfs W, Neumann UP, Lurje G. Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion of Extended Criteria Kidney Allografts from Brain Dead Donors: Protocol for a Prospective Pilot Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 Oct 14;8(10):e14622. doi: 10.2196/14622. PubMed 31613224 ↗

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 7, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03378817
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Aachen
Responsible party
Georg Lurje, M.D. (Attending Transplant Surgeon, University Hospital, Aachen) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 20, 2017
Start date
Dec 5, 2017
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2019
Completion
Mar 30, 2020
Last update
Apr 7, 2020

Study contacts

Georg Lurje, M.D.
principal investigator · RWTH Aachen University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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