Phase I/IIa Clinical Trial of Stem Cell Based Tissue Engineered Partial Laryngeal Implants in 10 Adult Patients With End-stage Laryngeal Stenosis With 24 Months Follow-up.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 撤回
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Safety of tissue engineered laryngotracheal replacement
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to test a new groundbreaking treatment for narrowing of the voicebox and upper windpipe, which can be due to injury, inflammatory disease or cancer treatment. Narrowing of the voicebox or upper windpipe can leave patients dependant on a tracheostomy tube to breath through (a tube or hole in the neck), which can require a high level of care with regular hospital visits and can lead to recurrent chest infections. Regular surgical procedures may be necessary to widen the airway. Speaking may be very difficult or not even possible, breathing is usually a struggle and swallowing can also be affected. Patients feel very tired all the time.
The new treatment tested by this study is an implant that will partially replace the voicebox or upper windpipe in order to cure the narrowing. The implant is based on a human donor voicebox or windpipe that has been processed with detergents and enzymes in order to remove all the cells from the donor, leaving a 'scaffold' of connective tissue. The patient's own stem cells are removed from the bone marrow, then are grown on the scaffold in the laboratory. These cells will form the cartilage in the wall of the scaffold. A split skin graft from the patient may be needed to line the inside of the implant. The implant can be considered 'living' due to the cells grown on it, and this type of treatment is referred to as 'tissue engineering' or 'regenerative medicine'.
Once these cells have attached and started to grow on the scaffold, it is ready to be implanted into the patient, and an operation is performed which occurs in two separate stages. The final stage of the operation involves removing the narrow section of voicebox or upper windpipe and implanting the scaffold to reconstruct it. Patients will be followed up for two years after this operation, with investigations such as CT scans, examination of the voicebox and windpipe with a flexible camera (bronchoscopy) and blood tests performed at specific times.
It is intended that this treatment will significantly improve patients' symptoms resulting in better breathing, swallowing and voice function, reducing the need for repeated hospital visits and procedures and enhancing patients' quality of life.
详细描述
The RegenVOX trial is a phase I/IIa safety and potential efficacy clinical trial of tissue-engineered laryngotracheal replacement using autologous-derived cells and decellularised human donor scaffolds in 10 patients with severe acquired laryngotracheal stenosis.
Current solutions for the treatment of advanced structural disorders of the larynx such as trauma, inflammatory disorders or following cancer treatment are suboptimal and patients with such problems require frequent hospitalisation. A regenerative solution that restores the anatomy of the larynx would provide a definitive treatment for these patients, improve the outcome of resection for malignant disease, avoid some laryngectomies and would reduce the threshold for performing surgery over administering chemotherapy thereby reducing morbidity. Giving patients a once-only therapy of a life-time functional living replacement would allow patients to lead tracheostomy-free lives with improved breathing, swallowing and speech and a lower requirement for hospital follow-up.
This project is a clinical trial of tissue engineered partial laryngeal replacements in 10 patients with end-stage laryngeal stenosis. The intervention is based on a human donor graft scaffold which is decellularised and then seeded with autologous mesenchymal stem cell-derived chondrocytes externally. Following expansion of these cells ex-vivo, the graft is implanted. This is the first clinical trial to our knowledge of a stem-call based organ replacement.
Inclusion criteria are:
Patients aged >=18 years with sufficient numbers of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) in their human Bone Marrow (hBM) aspirate.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients aged >=18 years with sufficient numbers of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) in their 8-10ml human Bone Marrow (hBM) aspirate.
- •Patients with Myer-Cotton Grade 3 or 4* laryngotracheal stenosis or equivalent due to traumatic, inflammatory, iatrogenic, or idiopathic causes who have exhausted conventional therapies.
- •*The Myer-Cotton grading system for mature, firm, circumferential stenosis, confined to the subglottis describes the stenosis based on the per cent relative reduction in cross-sectional area of the subglottis. Four grades of stenosis:
- •grade 1 lesions have less than 50% obstruction
- •grade 2 lesions have 51% to 70% obstruction
- •grade 3 lesions have 71% to 99% obstruction
- •grade 4 lesions have no detectable lumen or complete stenosis
排除标准
- •Pregnancy
- •Patients positive for HIV 1, HIV 2, HCV, HBV, syphilis or HTLV
- •Those unable to provide informed consent
- •Co-morbid severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (according to NICE criteria)
- •Patients with active / uncontrolled chronic inflammatory conditions such as granulomatosis with polyangitis (formerly Wegener's granulomatosis) and sarcoidosis
- •Any current or previous cancer within 5 years (except non-melanoma skin cancer, adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix, laryngeal malignancy treated locally with no local recurrence and no metastases, or low grade airway malignancy such as chondrosarcoma which may be causing airway obstruction)
- •Life expectancy less than 5 years unless this limitation is principally due to the airway obstruction to be treated
- •Concurrent enrollment in any other Clinical Trial of Investigational Medicinal Product (CTIMP).
结局指标
主要结局
Safety of tissue engineered laryngotracheal replacement
时间窗: 24 months post operative follow up
The primary outcome measure is safety of the tissue engineered implant as defined by morbidity and mortality and measured by occurrence of adverse events throughout 24 months post operative follow up
次要结局
- Efficacy of tissue engineered laryngotracheal replacement(24 months post operative follow up)