Skip to main content
OpenTrials
Active, Not Recruiting

NCT Number: NCT05050955

AlloSure Lung Assessment and Metagenomics Outcomes Study

ALAMO is a prospective, multi-center, perspective, registry of patients receiving LungCare™ (AlloSure®-Lung, AlloMap Lung, and HistoMap) for surveillance post-transplant. This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic performance characteristics of AlloSure Lung (dd-cfDNA) to detect a spectrum of rejection (ACR, AMR) and allograft infection (Bacterial, Viral, Fungal, Mycobacterial, Parasitic).

Active, Not Recruiting

This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Loading trial locations.

About this study

This is a prospective, multicenter, observational registry of lung transplant recipients receiving LungCare (AlloSure-Lung, AlloMap Lung, and Histomap) surveillance testing. Patients will be recruited based on utilization of surveillance testing with LungCare, as deemed appropriate for their care post-transplant. Patients deemed eligible for the study by their physician will be invited to participate during their usual care visit. Enrolled patients will receive evaluations and treatment for their lung transplant according to their health care provider and clinical practice at each study site. Treatment and follow-up visits will be determined by the treating physician. Information related to surveillance testing, selected clinical outcomes, and treatments received for managing the lung transplant recipients will be collected from medical records. The product Laboratory Services Guide(s) will be provided as a reference. Patient data (including diagnosis and biopsy outcomes) will be drawn from the patients' medical records. This data will be recorded by the site study personnel via a web-based electronic data collection (EDC) system every month.

The study is designed to observe the clinical use of LungCare and patient outcomes in a cohort of lung transplant recipients managed with LungCare. This cohort design is selected because it is efficient and effective to evaluate the real-world robust performance of LungCare on patient management and outcomes that can be generalized to the intended use population. A well-designed observational cohort study that includes a large number of patients with long-term follow-up may provide robust results with several advantages, such as gathering data regarding sequence of events to assess causality; examining multiple outcomes for a given LungCare use; calculating rates of biopsy and rejection; and operational efficiency.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Unilateral or Bilateral, deceased-donor, initial or re-transplant
  • ≤ 90 days post-transplant
  • Ability to understand and provide informed consent and adhere to laboratory surveillance schedule
  • Patients who have LungCare initiated within 30 days of signing the informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

  • Multi-organ transplants
  • Pregnancy
  • Active malignancy

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. ALAD

    Time frame: 1 year post-transplant

    Diagnostic performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV) of AlloSure Lung to detect acute lung allograft dysfunction (ALAD).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Chronic lung allograft dysfunction

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Clinical diagnostic performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV) of AlloSure Lung to detect chronic lung allograft dysfunction.

  2. Acute cellular rejection

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Clinical diagnostic performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV) of AlloSure Lung to detect acute cellular rejection (ACR).

  3. Antibody mediated rejection

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Clinical diagnostic performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV) of AlloSure Lung to detect antibody mediated rejection (AMR).

  4. Acute infection

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Clinical diagnostic performance characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV) of AlloSure Lung to detect acute infection.

  5. Subject Variability

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Define within-subject and between-subject variability of AlloSure Lung in clinically stable patients in order to establish reference change value RCV.

  6. ALAD vs. Stability

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Evaluate the diagnostic performance characteristics of utilizing RCV to distinguish ALAD vs. Stability

  7. Biopsy-proven rejections

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    The proportion of biopsy-proven rejections with elevated AlloSure Lung versus those without elevated AlloSure-Lung.

  8. AlloSure Lung Results

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    The proportion of AlloSure Lung results obtained as surveillance or for-cause, that the physicians felt influenced their decisions around management of patients.

  9. ALAD Free survival

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    ALAD free survival in lung transplant recipients who received AlloSure Lung as part of post-transplant surveillance.

  10. AlloSure Levels

    Time frame: 3 years post-transplant

    Evaluate AlloSure levels 30-90 days prior to acute rejection.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

CareDx

Industry

Registry information

Acronym: ALAMO

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Sep 21, 2021
Registry last updated
Jun 25, 2026

OpenTrials presents study information sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov. The official registry record should be consulted for the latest information.

View the official ClinicalTrials.gov record (opens in a new tab)

This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

Published trials that share one or more normalized conditions with this study.