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Published in final edited form as: Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2022 Mar;29(2):188–200.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2021.09.002

Table 3.

Case Series of CAR-T Therapy in Solid Organ Transplant

Baseline Characteristics Disease Characteristics  Therapies Before CAR-T   Immunosuppression Management  CAR-T Adverse Events and Outcomes

Publication Case # Age, Gender Organ Transplant Immunosuppression Time from tx (years) Timor EBV Static Pathology CRS Grade Outcomes
Krishnamoorthy   1 54M DDKT/Pancreas Tac/Aza/Pred 20 Negative DLBCL-GCB Rituximab alone, R–CHOP Low-dose tac, pred 1 Death at day 115 due to refractory PTLD
  2   54F Heart Tac/MMF/Pred 26 Negative DLBCL-non-GCB R–CHOP, R-ICE, lenalidomide switched from tac tosirolimus 2 AKI requiring RRT, death at day 44 due to GI bleed from refractory PTLD
  3  71M DDKT Tac/Aza/Pred 10 Negative DLBCL-non-GCB R–CHOP, R-DHAX, ibrutinib. Stopped 3 AKI requiring RRT, aspergillus pneumonia, VRE bacteremia, death at day 15 from refractory PTLD
Mamlouk   4  38M Kidney Tac/MMF/Pred 10 Negative DLBCL-GCB R-EPOCH, R-GEM-Ox M MF. On low dose pred 1 Rejection at 16 weeks, CR at 1 month, up to 7 mo.
  5  44M Kidney Sirolimus/Pred 10 Negative DLBCL-GCB R–CHOP Stopped 1 Pneumonia, AW, CR at 1 mo. Relapse at 34 week
  6  41M Kidney Sirolimus/Pred   7 Negative DLBCL-GCB R-EPOCH, R-GDP, R- ESHAP, Pola-BR Stopped sirolimus, on low dose pred None PR at 1 mo. PD at 3 mo.
Luttwak   7 69 M DDKT Tac 25 Negative DLBCL-GCB R-daEPOCH, R-GDP, Pola-BR Tac (2 ng/mL) 1 CR at 1 mo. Relapse at 3 mo.
  8   50F DDKT Tac   5 Negative DLBCL-GCB R–CHOP, R-ICE + ASCT, gemcitabine Tac (2 ng/mL) 2 CR at 1 mo. Sustained at 3 mo.
  9 66M Liver Tac   8 Negative DLBCL-non-GCB R–CHOP, ICE, radiotherapy Tac (2 ng/mL) 1 PR at 1 mo. Sustained at 3 mo.
Dang 10   17F Heart Tac/Pred   0.3 Positive DLBCL-non-GCB CYVE, O-ICE, radiation, EBV-CTL, radiation Pred, low dose tac (1-2 ng/mL) 1 CR at 1 mo. Sustained at 6 mo.
Wang 11   3M Liver Tac/Pred   1.8 Positive Burkitt lymphoma R–CP, CP, radiation Pred 2 CR at 2 mo. Sustained at 16 mo.

Abbreviations: ASCT, autologous stem cell transplantation; Aza, azathioprine; CR, complete response; DDKT, deceased kidney transplant; DLBCL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; EBV-CTL, EB virus-specific cytotoxic T cell therapy; GCB, germinal center B cell; GDP, gemcitabine, carboplatin and dexamethasone; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; PR, partial response; PD, progressive disease; Pola-BR, polatuzumab vedotin, bendamustine, rituximab; R–CHOP: rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and prednisone; R-daEPOCH, rituximab, dose-adjusted etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin; R-DHAX, Rituximab, dexamethasone, cytarabine, and oxaliplatin; R-EPOCH, rituximab, etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin; R-ESHAP, rituximab, etoposide, methylprednisolone,cytarabine, cisplatin; R-GEM-Ox, rituximab, gemcitabine, oxaliplatin; R-ICE, Rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide; RRT, renal replacement therapy; Tac, tacrolimus.

Adapted from Schreiber et al.110