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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2022

ALVR109, an off-the-shelf partially HLA matched SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell therapy, to treat refractory severe COVID-19 pneumonia in a heart transplant patient: Case report.

Katalin Martits-Chalangari, Cedric W Spak, Medhat Askar, Aaron Killian, Tammy L Fisher, Ercem Atillasoy, William L Marshall, David McNeel, Michael D Miller, Susan K Mathai and 1 more

5 registry-linked trialsOpen access · hybridAbstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07638332 phase1 / phase2not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Single-Center, Open-Label, Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of LB-DTK-BKV in Patients With BK Virus-Associated Hemorrhagic Cystitis Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

TypeinterventionalSponsorLucasBioRan2026 to 2028Enrolled42ConditionsHemorrhagic CystitisArmsLB-DTK-BKV, Standard-of-care
NCT07670468 phase1 / phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

A Single-Center, Open-Label, Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of LB-DTK-MV in Patients Diagnosed With Antiviral-Resistant CMV, BKV, or EBV Infection or Associated Diseases Following Anticancer Therapy or Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

TypeinterventionalSponsorLucasBioRan2025 to 2027Enrolled27ConditionsBKV Infection, EBV Infection, CMV InfectionArmsLB-DTK-MV
NCT07679412 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

An Exploratory Clinical Study of Autologous LB-DTK-CMV in Patients With Antiviral-Resistant and Refractory Cytomegalovirus Retinitis.

TypeinterventionalSponsorLucasBioRan2026 to 2027Enrolled5ConditionsCMV RetinitisArmsLB-DTK-CMV
NCT07685457 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Prospective Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Virus Specific T-Cell Administration in Pediatric Patients With Systemic Viral Infection Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

TypeinterventionalSponsorLucasBioRan2026 to 2027Enrolled6ConditionsBKV Infection, CMV Infection, EBV InfectionArmsLB-DTK-MV
NCT07690943 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

A Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Autologous COVID-19 Antigen Specific T Cell Treatment in Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorLucasBioRan2023 to 2025Enrolled13ConditionsCOVID-19, COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 Infection)ArmsLB-DTK-COV19
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Adoptive T-cell therapy for virus-associated diseases.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025
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  5. Virus-Specific T-Cell Therapy for the Management of Viral Infections in the Immunocompromised.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2025
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  9. Therapy With Allogeneic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2-Specific T Cells for Persistent Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Immunocompromised Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Katalin Martits-ChalangariBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2423-865X
Cedric W SpakBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3916-0998
Medhat AskarBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2633-9363
Aaron KillianBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7477-5998
Tammy L FisherBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5117-1390
Ercem AtillasoyAlloVir, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7370-3311
William L MarshallAlloVir, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6662-0582
David McNeelAlloVir, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8294-8492
Michael D MillerAlloVir, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4929-2257
Susan K MathaiBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5899-8083
Robert L GottliebBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8376-8709
Baylor University Medical Center · USTexas A&M Health Science Center · USUniversity of North Texas · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An unvaccinated adult male heart transplant recipient patient with recalcitrant COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 delta variant with rising nasopharyngeal quantitative viral load was successfully treated with ALVR109, an off-the-shelf SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell therapy. Background immunosuppression included 0.1 mg/kg prednisone, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil 1 gm twice daily for historical antibody-mediated rejection. Prior therapies included remdesivir, corticosteroids, and tocilizumab, with requirement for high-flow nasal oxygen. Lack of clinical improvement and acutely rising nasopharyngeal viral RNA more than 3 weeks into illness prompted the request of ALVR109 through an emergency IND. The day following the first ALVR109 infusion, the patient's nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RNA declined from 7.43 to 5.02 log

Indexed as

COVID-19Heart TransplantationAdultCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyHumansMaleRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2RNA, Viralantibiotic: antiviralclinical research/practiceheart transplantation/cardiologyimmunobiologyinfection and infectious agents-viral: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19infectious disease

Identifiers

PMID34910857
PMCPMC9303326
OpenAlexW4200327972

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Registered trials

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