Breakthrough trial aims to free kidney patients from lifelong medications

NCT ID NCT00619528

Summary

This study tested a new approach to help kidney transplant patients stop taking lifelong anti-rejection drugs. It involved 88 patients who received a kidney from a genetically matched sibling. The treatment combined a special medication (Campath-1H) with infusions of the donor's stem cells, with the goal of safely stopping all immunosuppressive drugs one year after the transplant.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States

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