Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Pilot Study of Immuno-ablation With Chemoimmunoradiation Followed by Autologous Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell (HPC) Transplant for Adult Subjects With Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Brief Summary:
Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare autoimmune inflammatory disease affecting medium- and small-sized blood vessels, causing asthma, abnormalities of the blood, lung diseases, and neuropathy. The main cause of death in these patients is heart attack. Without therapy, the 5-year survival in patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome is 25%. Although with the 5-year survival is increased to 62% with the appropriate therapy, many patients remain refractory to therapy. The long term outcome of these patients remains grim.
The aim of this research study is to determine if suppressing the immune system using a combination of high dose chemotherapy, antibodies, and radiation followed by stem cell transplant will abolish the 'bad' immune system and let the patient's body establish a new immune system that does not attack the blood vessels.