LARGO is a prospective, multi-center, international observational study with participating centers in the United States, Canada and Europe. The target enrollment for study completion is 2,100 subjects.
At each study visit, blood specimens are collected from subjects, processed and stored in the sample archive, with corresponding patient information entered into the clinical database. The analysis plan for each study objective includes a defined sample selection protocol that stipulates the inclusion and exclusion criteria for both patients and samples, and also the required number of blood specimens for the molecular analyses to achieve statistical significance.
The diagnosis and treatment of acute cellular rejection remains a clinical management priority that is currently based on transbronchial biopsy. Gene expression profiling is a technology based on molecular biology that measures changes in the RNA levels of different genes expressed by circulating mononuclear cells in the peripheral blood. A key goal of the project is to use gene expression profiling to differentiate between the absence and presence of lung allograft acute cellular rejection, with the aim of using this novel information to develop a non-invasive diagnostic testing alternative.
