Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

Patients with end-stage kidney disease have hyperphosphatemia and accumulated uremic toxin level due to decreased urine excretion ability. Unhealthy diet causes altered mineral metabolism, elevated uremic toxin level, immune dysregulation, and inflammation. The investigators hypothesize that therapeutic diet intervention reverses altered mineral metabolism, elevated uremic toxin level, immune dysregulation, and inflammation. In this study, the investigators crafted 7-day special healthy diet to illustrate the clinical implications of therapeutic diet for dialysis patients.

The clinical investigation will be performed to generate clinical data on clearances and removal rates for ß2-microglobulin and other uremic toxins and on clinical adverse events of the modified polysulfone membrane to fulfil obligations to follow the FX P600 dialyzer in the market.

Hypertension is highly prevalent in hemodialysis (HD) patients and leads to increased morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease(CVD). Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is both a manifestation of hypertension caused end-organ damage and an independent risk factor for CVD. Evidence shows that Beta-blockers, especially of low dialyzability decrease risk of CVD and mortality. Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) were also shown to effectively control BP in the volume expanded state and reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Asymmetric dimethyl arginine (ADMA) is a uremic toxin that decreases NO synthesis and is correlated to LVH, carotid intimal thickness (CIT), CVD, and mortality. Amlodipine is shown in one study to significantly reduce ADMA level in HD patients. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of calcium channel blocker Amlodipine compared to Beta-blocker Bisoprolol on regression of LVH, reduction of ADMA plasma level and on BP control among hypertensive patients on HD.

This study will investigate the effect of co-administration of Triferic and heparin on the ability to maintain circuit anti-coagulation and iron delivery when compared to control conditions when each treatment is administered via separate routes.

To explore the clinical effect of Shenkang Decoction in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients with hemodialysis (HD).

This is an interventional study to treat 18 patients with chronic kidney disease of unknown cause (CKDu), formerly known as Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN), with autologous adipose tissue-derived stromal vascular fraction (SVF) cells transplanted by intra-arterial injection both kidneys. This study assesses: (1) safety and tolerability, (2) preliminary evidence of efficacy, (3) exploratory evidence of clinical effects.

Prospective, nonrandomized, single-arm, single-center, open-label, first-in-human clinical study in subjects with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and not candidates for an autogenous fistula creation.

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ferric citrate capsules for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis

The Carry Life UF device performs peritoneal ultrafiltration by adding a concentrated glucose to peritoneal dialysis fluid which has been instilled into the abdomen prior to the connection of the device. Maintaining the glucose concentration in the intraperitoneal fluid results in an increased fluid removal (ultrafiltration). The clinical investigation will evaluate the ultrafiltration achieved with the Carry Life UF device compared to standard peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy

This study is a First-in-Human, single site, prospective, randomized, controlled evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the Healionics STARgraft AV hemodialysis access graft. The STARgraft has been demonstrated in preclinical studies to have improved resistance to the common failure mode of venous anastomosis stenosis. Performance of the STARgraft AV will be compared against control implants of commercially available standard ePTFE grafts approved for the same use. The study is enrolling patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) requiring hemodialysis via a prosthetic vascular graft. The study proposes to: Demonstrate improved primary patency of the investigational STARgraft AV compared to the ePTFE controls over a period of 6 months, with extended results to 1 year. Verify safety of the STARgraft AV multilayer construction in extended vascular access use. It is intended to enroll 25 subjects each for the investigational devices and the controls respectively (50 total) with randomized device allocation at subject presentation for implant surgery.