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Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning in Transplantation (RIPTRANS)

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Transplant Dysfunction
Interventions
Procedure: Sham-RIPC
Procedure: RIPC
Registration Number
NCT03855722
Lead Sponsor
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Brief Summary

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is a concept where remotely induced ischemia produces protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury in a remote organ. RIPC has been studied extensively in animal models and heart surgery, but it's benefit in transplantation has been studied less. The primary aim of this study is to find out whether RIPC performed in a donor in donation after brain-death (DBD) could improve delayed graft function rate of kidney transplants.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
496
Inclusion Criteria
  • Brain-dead organ donor with a plan of harvesting at least one kidney

Donor

Exclusion Criteria
  • Haemodynamically unstable donor
  • Age below 18 years
  • Planned organ recipients are recruited to another prospective trial, which prevents participation in this trial.

All organ recipients receiving organs (kidney, liver, pancreas-kidney, heart, lungs) from a randomized donor will be recruited providing that the recipient surgery is performed at Helsinki University Hospital, recipient is over 18 years old, and recipient gives written informed consent to participate in the trial.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Sham-RIPCSham-RIPCSham-RIPC will consist of setting a tourniquet to donor thigh without inflating it and keeping it in place for 35 min. Sham-RIPC-intervention will be performed twice: First after brain death and second time before procurement procedure.
RIPCRIPCRIPC will consist of setting a tourniquet to donor thigh and inflating it to 300mmHg four times 5 minutes with 5 minutes deflating in between each. RIPC-intervention will be performed twice: First after brain death and second time before procurement procedure.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
DGF7 days

Delayed graft function of kidney allografts defined as postoperative dialysis within 1 week from transplantation

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Kidney allografts: BPARwithin 1 year

Kidney allografts: Biopsy proven acute rejection

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: kidney graft survivalat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: time from transplantation to death, retransplantation of the kidney or permanent dialysis

Liver allografts: MEAF-score at 3rd POD3rd post-operative day

Liver allografts: Model for Early Allograft Function Scoring (MEAF) (MEAF = (score ALTmax:3POD+ score INRmax:3POD+ score bilirubin3POD), score range 0 - 10, higher score indicates worse outcome)

Pancreas allografts: Acute rejectionwithin 1 year

Pancreas allografts: Either biopsy proven (allograft pancreas or duodenal biopsy) acute rejection or clinically treated suspected acute rejection

Lung allograft: CLAD-free survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Lung allograft: Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD) free survival according to Verleden (2014)

Liver allografts: graft survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Liver allografts: graft survival: time from transplantation to death, retransplantation or explantation

Pancreas allografts: Death-censored Pancreatic allograft survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Pancreas allografts: Time from transplantation to retransplantation, explantation or daily insulin dependance, death-censored

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: eGFRat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: estimated glomerular filtration rate

Pancreas allografts: HbA1cat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Pancreas allografts: blood HbA1c measurement

Pancreas allografts: Pancreatic allograft survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Pancreas allografts: Time from transplantation to death, retransplantation, explantation or daily insulin dependance

Heart allograft: proBNP at 1 weekat 1 week

Heart allograft: blood proBNP measurement at 1 week after transplantation (12/09/2019 BNP changed to proBNP because of changes in Helsinki University Hospital HUSlab laboratory protocols)

Heart allograft: Primary graft dysfunctionwithin 24 hours after transplantation

Heart allograft: Primary graft dysfunction according to ISHLT (2014)

Heart allograft: acute rejectionwithin 1 year

Heart allograft: Biopsy proven or clinically treated acute rejection

Heart allograft: graft survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Heart allograft: time from transplantation to death, retransplantation or explantation

Lung allograft: Primary graft dysfunctionwithin 72 hours

Lung allograft: Primary graft dysfunction according to ISHLT

Lung allograft: graft survivalat 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 year

Lung allograft: time from transplantation to death, retransplantation or explantation (12/16/2019 secondary outcome measures for lung recipients redifined. Lung recipients recruitment started later than for other organs because of a conflicting trial which now has completed recruiting. Only four lung patients have thus far been included in the study and no results for lung recipients have been analyzed.)

Heart allograft: TnI at 6 hoursat 6 hours

Heart allograft: blood TnI measurement at 6 hours after transplantation

Kidney allografts: death-censored graft survivalat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Kidney allografts: time from transplantation to retransplantation or permanent dialysis, death-censored

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: death-censored kidney graft survivalat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: time from transplantation to retransplantation of the kidney or permanent dialysis, death-censored

Liver allografts: Postoperative biliary complicationswithin 1 year

Liver allografts: Amount and type of postoperative biliary complications: stricture at anastomosis, bile leak, ischaemic type biliary lesions (ITBL)

Liver allografts: Posttransplantation kidney injurywithin 1 week, at 3 months, 1 year

Liver allografts: Posttransplantation kidney injury (acute kidney injury) according to ADQI (2010) criteria

Liver allografts: BPARwithin 1 year

Liver allografts: Biopsy proven acute rejection

Kidney allografts: eGFRat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Kidney allografts: estimated glomerular filtration rate

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: Kidney BPARwithin 1 year

Combined Pancreas-Kidney allografts: Biopsy proven acute rejection in Kidney allograft

Kidney allografts: graft survivalat 3 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Kidney allografts: time from transplantation to death, retransplantation or permanent dialysis

Heart allograft: Vasculopathy-free survivalat 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and 20 year

Heart allograft: Vasculopathy-free survival according to Mehra (2010)

Lung allograft: Acute rejectionwithin 1 year

Lung allograft: Biopsy proven or clinically treated acute rejection

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Helsinki University Hospital

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Helsinki, Finland

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