Viral Triggers in Pediatric Lung Transplantation

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bronchiolitis Obliterans; Lung Transplant; Obliterative Bronchiolitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00891865

DAIT CTOTC-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether respiratory viral infections increase the risk of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), death, or retransplantation in children who have received lung transplants.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent or legal guardian willing and able to provide informed consent
• Participant of first single or bilateral heart-lung transplant

Exclusion criteria

• Recipient of multi-organ transplant (aside from heart-lung)
• Condition or characteristic which in the opinion of the investigator makes the participant unlikely to complete the study

Trial design

61 participants in 1 patient group

Pediatric lung transplantation