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End Stage Liver DIseaseNCT06069050

SALT in Adolescents With End-stage Liver Disease

A study testing sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) in people with End Stage Liver DIsease, run by RenJi Hospital.

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Trial summary

End-stage liver disease is synonymous with advanced liver disease, liver failure, and decompensated cirrhosis, and their disease progression is generally irreversible. Unlike other end-stage diseases, liver transplantation is a definitive and potentially curative treatment for ESLD. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 7 to 18 years
Conditions the study is for
End Stage Liver DIsease
What is being tested?
sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT)
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
20 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
20 Oct 2023to 30 Mar 2027
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 7 to 18 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age 7-18 years old;
  • Patients with end-stage liver disease cannot obtain sufficient donor liver volume through conventional living donor liver transplantation;
  • The general condition is good and can tolerate the follow-up operation plan;
  • Guardians and children (over 14 years old) sign the informed consent.

Who cannot join

  • Uncorrectable cardiopulmonary disease with excessive surgical risk
  • Anatomical abnormalities precluding liver transplantation
  • Patients with primary or secondary hepatic malignancies
  • Patients with genetic metabolic diseases and their complications that cannot be completely cured by liver transplantation
  • Persistent non-adherence to medical care
  • Combined with AIDS and other diseases that affect surgery or tumor progression
  • Other reasons that the researchers think are not suitable for participation.

About this study

Official title: Sequential Adolescent Left Lateral Lobe Liver Transplantation in Adolescents With End-stage Liver Disease: a Single-center, Prospective, Single-arm Study

End-stage liver disease is synonymous with advanced liver disease, liver failure, and decompensated cirrhosis, and their disease progression is generally irreversible. Unlike other end-stage diseases, liver transplantation is a definitive and potentially curative treatment for ESLD. However, due to clinical and social factors such as the shortage of donor livers, the number of patients who can be transplanted is far less than the number of waiting patients. About 14% of patients die each year while waiting, and about 10% of patients are too sick to be transplanted. Although changes in organ allocation policies and popularization of living donor liver transplantation have significantly reduced the waiting time and mortality of infant recipients under 2 years old. Pre-transplant mortality in children older than 6 years remains high. Therefore, expanding the donor liver pool is an urgent need to treat patients with adolescent end-stage liver disease (AESLD). In 2015, Norwegian scholars proposed a new surgical method, that is, resection and partial liver segment (2-3 segment) transplantation combined with delayed total hepatectomy can greatly alleviate the shortage of liver donors in the above patients.Based on the experience of clinical operation, our center proposes and designs the clinical research of sequential adolescent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) for the treatment of AESLD. On the basis of RAPID, the safety and efficacy of sequential juvenile left lateral lobe liver transplantation were evaluated for the above patients.

Read the detailed description

Cirrhosis is an irreversible advanced stage of chronic progressive liver disease characterized by structural deformation of the liver and the formation of regenerative nodules. Those with complications are classified as decompensated cirrhosis, including variceal bleeding, ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), hepatorenal syndrome, or hepatopulmonary syndrome. These complications are the leading cause of death in patients with cirrhosis. End-stage liver disease is synonymous with advanced liver disease, liver failure, and decompensated cirrhosis, and their disease progression is generally irreversible. Unlike other end-stage diseases, liver transplantation is a definitive and potentially curative treatment for ESLD. However, due to clinical and social factors such as the shortage of donor livers, the number of patients who can be transplanted is far less than the number of waiting patients. About 14% of patients die each year while waiting, and about 10% of patients are too sick to be transplanted. Although changes in organ allocation policies and popularization of living donor liver transplantation have significantly reduced the waiting time and mortality of infant recipients under 2 years old. Pre-transplant mortality in children older than 6 years remains high. Therefore, expanding the donor liver pool is an urgent need to treat patients with adolescent end-stage liver disease (AESLD). In 2015, a new surgical method was proposed by Norwegian scholars. Therefore, expanding the donor liver pool is an urgent need to treat patients with adolescent end-stage liver disease (AESLD). In 2015, Norwegian scholars proposed a new surgical method, that is, resection and partial liver segment 2-3 transplantation with delayed total hepatectomy (RAPID). This approach allows transplantation of the left liver (segments 2+3) to an adult recipient, while the remaining enlarged right hemi-liver is transplanted to another adult recipient. Recipients who received right-hemi-liver transplantation had a similar prognosis compared with those who received whole-liver transplantation. Therefore, if the RAPID technique is confirmed to be feasible, it can greatly alleviate the shortage of liver donors. In addition to cadaver sources, living adult donors can also be considered as the source of liver donors. A smaller left lateral lobe donor liver also places less burden on the donor than a left or right hemiliver.

To sum up, our center proposed and designed a clinical study of sequential adolescent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) in the treatment of AESLD patients based on clinical surgical experience. On the basis of RAPID operation, the overall survival rate of SALT in AESLD patients was evaluated.

Being tested
sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT)
Keywords
liver transplantation, two-stage liver resection, end stage liver dIsease
Medical subject headings
End Stage Liver Disease

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT)Procedure or surgery

    Hemihepatectomy combined with left lateral lobe liver transplantation was performed first, and residual liver resection was performed after the graft grew to a sufficient functional liver volume.

Study groups in NCT06069050
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Surgical groupExperimentalSALT operation plan for patients who meet the enrollment conditions and successfully match the donor liver: Hemihepatectomy combined with left lateral lobe liver transplantation was performed first, and residual liver resection was performed after the graft grew to a sufficient functional liver volume.
Receives: Procedure: sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT)

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. 3-year overall survival

    To describe the 3-year overall survival after sequential adolescent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) in adolescent patients with end-stage liver disease.

    Measured: 3 years after the second liver resection

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. 1-year overall survival

    To describe the 1-year overall survival after sequential adolescent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) in adolescent patients with end-stage liver disease.

    Measured: 1 year after the second liver resection

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted5 Oct 2023
  2. Study start20 Oct 2023 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion30 Mar 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Mar 2027 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
SALT operation plan for patients who meet the enrollment conditions and successfully match the donor liver.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
20 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06069050
Sponsor's protocol ID
LY2023-184-C
Status last verified
Oct 2023
First submitted
22 Sep 2023
Last updated
5 Oct 2023
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing sequential adolesent left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) in people with End Stage Liver DIsease, run by RenJi Hospital.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 5 Oct 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

3-year overall survival (time frame: 3 years after the second liver resection). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 5 Oct 2023.

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