Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study

NCT00096733 | Completed DMC

• 2 other identifiers: A2ALLU01DK062498-01
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 2,470
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 9

Brief Summary

There are two principal purposes of this study: 1) to determine whether it is more beneficial for a liver transplant recipient candidate to pursue a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) or wait for a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT), and 2) to study the impact of liver donation on the donor's health and quality of life.

Conditions

Cirrhosis; Hepatitis C; Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Keywords

Living donors; Organ procurement; Liver transplantation; Hepatitis C; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Hepatectomy; Liver regeneration; Graft rejection; Quality of life; Informed consent

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Survival of the potential liver transplant recipient

  Time from evaluation of a living liver donor until death of the potential recipient, to test the benefit of living liver donation.

  Time from living donor evaluation to death

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Recipient survival from time of transplant (either living or deceased donor)

  From transplant until death or last follow-up

Other Outcomes (2)

• Donor complications

  From the time of donation until last follow-up

• Recipient complications

  From time of transplantation until last follow-up

Study Arms (2)

Donors

Living liver donors. This label may also refer to those evaluated for liver donation who did not go on to donate, i.e., potential living liver donors.

Recipients

Liver transplant recipients (either living or deceased donor). This label may also refer to those who were evaluated for liver transplantation, but never received a transplant, i.e., potential recipients.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Potential recipients and donors for transplantation will be evaluated and invited to participate in the study if they are eligible for LDLT using standard criteria for this procedure according to the practice of the transplant center.

You may qualify if:

• Potential recipient listed for single organ (liver) transplantation
• Patient is eligible for LDLT
• Age ≥ 18 years old at the time of donor history and physical exam
• Indication for transplant: non-fulminant liver disease
• Potential donor scheduled for evaluation (history and physical examination) within four weeks
• Meet donor criteria of the transplant center
• Age \>= 18 years old at donation
• Be evaluated with a history and physical examination at the transplant center
• Potential donor's recipient listed for single organ (liver) transplantation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Arbor Research Collaborative for Health: lead
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons: collaborator
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): collaborator
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): collaborator

Study Sites (9)

University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, 90095-7054, United States

Location

University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, California, 94143-0538, United States

Location

University of Colorado Health System

Denver, Colorado, 80262, United States

Location

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States

Location

Columbia University

New York, New York, 10032, United States

Location

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-7210, United States

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia, 22908-0708, United States

Location

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States

Location

Related Publications (23)

• Berg CL, Abecassis M, Brown RS, Everhart JE, Gillespie BW, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Merion RM. Living donor liver transplantation reduces the risk of death of transplant candidates. Hepatology 2004; 40(4)(Suppl 1): 209A.

  RESULT

• Ghobrial RM, Freise CE, Trotter JF, Tong L, Ojo AO, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Emond JC, Koffron AJ, Pruett TL, Olthoff KM; A2ALL Study Group. Donor morbidity after living donation for liver transplantation. Gastroenterology. 2008 Aug;135(2):468-76. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.04.018. Epub 2008 Apr 22.

  PMID: 18505689 RESULT

• Berg CL, Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Brown RS Jr, Abecassis MM, Trotter JF, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Shaked A, Fair JH, Everhart JE; A2ALL Study Group. Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. Gastroenterology. 2007 Dec;133(6):1806-13. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.09.004. Epub 2007 Sep 14.

  PMID: 18054553 RESULT

• Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Koffron AJ, Lok AS, Pruett TL, Emond JC, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Olthoff KM, Trotter JF, Ghobrial RM, Everhart JE; A2ALL Study Group. Recipient morbidity after living and deceased donor liver transplantation: findings from the A2ALL Retrospective Cohort Study. Am J Transplant. 2008 Dec;8(12):2569-79. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02440.x. Epub 2008 Oct 24.

  PMID: 18976306 RESULT

• Abecassis MM, Fisher RA, Olthoff KM, Freise CE, Rodrigo DR, Samstein B, Kam I, Merion RM; A2ALL Study Group. Complications of living donor hepatic lobectomy--a comprehensive report. Am J Transplant. 2012 May;12(5):1208-17. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03972.x. Epub 2012 Feb 15.

  PMID: 22335782 RESULT

• Berg CL, Merion RM, Shearon TH, Olthoff KM, Brown RS Jr, Baker TB, Everson GT, Hong JC, Terrault N, Hayashi PH, Fisher RA, Everhart JE. Liver transplant recipient survival benefit with living donation in the model for endstage liver disease allocation era. Hepatology. 2011 Oct;54(4):1313-21. doi: 10.1002/hep.24494.

  PMID: 21688284 RESULT

• Campsen J, Blei AT, Emond JC, Everhart JE, Freise CE, Lok AS, Saab S, Wisniewski KA, Trotter JF; Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group. Outcomes of living donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure: the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study. Liver Transpl. 2008 Sep;14(9):1273-80. doi: 10.1002/lt.21500.

  PMID: 18756453 RESULT

• Everson GT, Terrault NA, Lok AS, Rodrigo del R, Brown RS Jr, Saab S, Shiffman ML, Al-Osaimi AM, Kulik LM, Gillespie BW, Everhart JE; Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study. A randomized controlled trial of pretransplant antiviral therapy to prevent recurrence of hepatitis C after liver transplantation. Hepatology. 2013 May;57(5):1752-62. doi: 10.1002/hep.25976. Epub 2013 Jan 17.

  PMID: 22821361 RESULT

• Fisher RA, Kulik LM, Freise CE, Lok AS, Shearon TH, Brown RS Jr, Ghobrial RM, Fair JH, Olthoff KM, Kam I, Berg CL; A2ALL Study Group. Hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence and death following living and deceased donor liver transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2007 Jun;7(6):1601-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01802.x.

  PMID: 17511683 RESULT

• Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Ortiz-Rios E, Tong L, Shaked A, Brown RS, Ojo AO, Hayashi PH, Berg CL, Abecassis MM, Ashworth AS, Friese CE, Hong JC, Trotter JF, Everhart JE; A2ALL Study Group. Database comparison of the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) and the SRTR U.S. Transplant Registry. Am J Transplant. 2010 Jul;10(7):1621-33. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03039.x. Epub 2010 Feb 25.

  PMID: 20199501 RESULT

• Kulik LM, Fisher RA, Rodrigo DR, Brown RS Jr, Freise CE, Shaked A, Everhart JE, Everson GT, Hong JC, Hayashi PH, Berg CL, Lok AS; A2ALL Study Group. Outcomes of living and deceased donor liver transplant recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma: results of the A2ALL cohort. Am J Transplant. 2012 Nov;12(11):2997-3007. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.04272.x. Epub 2012 Sep 20.

  PMID: 22994906 RESULT

• Merion RM, Shearon TH, Berg CL, Everhart JE, Abecassis MM, Shaked A, Fisher RA, Trotter JF, Brown RS Jr, Terrault NA, Hayashi PH, Hong JC; A2ALL Study Group. Hospitalization rates before and after adult-to-adult living donor or deceased donor liver transplantation. Ann Surg. 2010 Mar;251(3):542-9. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181ccb370.

  PMID: 20130466 RESULT

• Northup PG, Abecassis MM, Englesbe MJ, Emond JC, Lee VD, Stukenborg GJ, Tong L, Berg CL; Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group. Addition of adult-to-adult living donation to liver transplant programs improves survival but at an increased cost. Liver Transpl. 2009 Feb;15(2):148-62. doi: 10.1002/lt.21671.

  PMID: 19177435 RESULT

• Olthoff KM, Merion RM, Ghobrial RM, Abecassis MM, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Kam I, Pruett TL, Everhart JE, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Gillespie BW, Emond JC; A2ALL Study Group. Outcomes of 385 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant recipients: a report from the A2ALL Consortium. Ann Surg. 2005 Sep;242(3):314-23, discussion 323-5. doi: 10.1097/01.sla.0000179646.37145.ef.

  PMID: 16135918 RESULT

• Olthoff KM, Abecassis MM, Emond JC, Kam I, Merion RM, Gillespie BW, Tong L; Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group. Outcomes of adult living donor liver transplantation: comparison of the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study and the national experience. Liver Transpl. 2011 Jul;17(7):789-97. doi: 10.1002/lt.22288.

  PMID: 21360649 RESULT

• Shaked A, Ghobrial RM, Merion RM, Shearon TH, Emond JC, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Kulik LM, Pruett TL, Terrault NA; A2ALL Study Group. Incidence and severity of acute cellular rejection in recipients undergoing adult living donor or deceased donor liver transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2009 Feb;9(2):301-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02487.x. Epub 2008 Dec 15.

  PMID: 19120082 RESULT

• Terrault NA, Shiffman ML, Lok AS, Saab S, Tong L, Brown RS Jr, Everson GT, Reddy KR, Fair JH, Kulik LM, Pruett TL, Seeff LB; A2ALL Study Group. Outcomes in hepatitis C virus-infected recipients of living donor vs. deceased donor liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2007 Jan;13(1):122-9. doi: 10.1002/lt.20995.

  PMID: 17192908 RESULT

• Trotter JF, Hill-Callahan MM, Gillespie BW, Nielsen CA, Saab S, Shrestha R, Talamantes MM, Weinrieb RM; A2ALL Study Group. Severe psychiatric problems in right hepatic lobe donors for living donor liver transplantation. Transplantation. 2007 Jun 15;83(11):1506-8. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000263343.21714.3b.

  PMID: 17565325 RESULT

• Trotter JF, Wisniewski KA, Terrault NA, Everhart JE, Kinkhabwala M, Weinrieb RM, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Koffron AJ, Saab S, Merion RM; A2ALL Study Group. Outcomes of donor evaluation in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. Hepatology. 2007 Nov;46(5):1476-84. doi: 10.1002/hep.21845.

  PMID: 17668879 RESULT

• Trotter JF, Gillespie BW, Terrault NA, Abecassis MM, Merion RM, Brown RS Jr, Olthoff KM, Hayashi PH, Berg CL, Fisher RA, Everhart JE; Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group. Laboratory test results after living liver donation in the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study. Liver Transpl. 2011 Apr;17(4):409-17. doi: 10.1002/lt.22246.

  PMID: 21445924 RESULT

• Olthoff KM, Smith AR, Abecassis M, Baker T, Emond JC, Berg CL, Beil CA, Burton JR Jr, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Grant DR, Humar A, Kam I, Merion RM, Pomfret EA, Samstein B, Shaked A. Defining long-term outcomes with living donor liver transplantation in North America. Ann Surg. 2015 Sep;262(3):465-75; discussion 473-5. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001383.

  PMID: 26258315 DERIVED

• Wolf JH, Holmes MV, Fouraschen S, Keating BJ, Baker T, Emond J, Rader DJ, Shaked A, Olthoff KM. Serum lipid expression correlates with function and regeneration following living donor liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2016 Jan;22(1):103-10. doi: 10.1002/lt.24220.

  PMID: 26202132 DERIVED

• Everson GT, Hoefs JC, Niemann CU, Olthoff KM, Dupuis R, Lauriski S, Herman A, Milne N, Gillespie BW, Goodrich NP, Everhart JE. Functional elements associated with hepatic regeneration in living donors after right hepatic lobectomy. Liver Transpl. 2013 Mar;19(3):292-304. doi: 10.1002/lt.23592.

  PMID: 23239552 DERIVED

Biospecimen

Retention: SAMPLES WITH DNA

whole blood, serum, fixed tissue samples, frozen tissue samples

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Fibrosis; Hepatitis C; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Blood-Borne Infections; Communicable Diseases; Infections; Hepatitis, Viral, Human; Virus Diseases; Flaviviridae Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Hepatitis; Liver Diseases; Digestive System Diseases; Adenocarcinoma; Carcinoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Liver Neoplasms; Digestive System Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site

Study Officials

• Robert M Merion, MD

  University of Michigan - A2ALL Data Coordinating Center

  STUDY CHAIR

• Carl L Berg, MD

  University of Virginia Health System

  STUDY CHAIR

• Jean Emond, MD

  Columbia University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: OTHER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 12, 2004
• First Posted: November 15, 2004
• Study Start: October 1, 2004
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2010
• Study Completion: August 1, 2010
• Last Updated: August 29, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-08

Locations

US (9)