Active clinical trials for "Renal Insufficiency, Chronic"

The individual course of chronic kidney disease (CKD) may vary, and improved methods for identifying which patients will experience estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) loss are needed. Recently, urinary dickkopf-3 (DKK3) has been proposed to predict eGFR loss in patients with CKD, independent of presence of albuminuria. The investigators sought to examine the association between DKK3 and loss of eGFR in patients with heart failure (HF). The investigators hypothesized that changes in DKK3 under treatment may be helpful to monitor individual kidney disease course.

This clinical study is designed to evaluate the theoretical prediction of a lower glucose absorption in optimized automated peritoneal dialysis regimes. Patients will receive both a standard 6 x 2L 1.36% glucose regime or an optimized 7 x 2 L 2.27% glucose + 5 x 2 L 0.1% glucose regime in a crossover fashion.

The objective of this study is to evaluate a group of patients with chronic kidney disease in stages 3-5 by conventional 2D echocardiography, tissue Doppler techniques and speckle tracking - LV GLS and determine the correlation of ultrasound parameters with mortality. Additionally, fibrosis-related biomarkers will be studied in this population.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a long-term condition in which the ability of the kidneys to function gets worse over time. People with CKD often do not have associated symptoms, meaning that it is possible for the condition to go undetected until the condition worsens and symptoms develop. The disease is more common in people with diabetes and screening by means of urine and blood tests is recommended in this population by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines in order to detect disease earlier. However, screening rates amongst these patients are low and the dilemma is therefore how to increase the rate of screening in those who are ordinarily non-compliant. It is thought that facilitating patients in being able to perform The Minuteful Kidney Test (an at home test using smartphone technology) may increase the amount of people that undertake the test and thus improving early detection. 348 GP practices will be randomised in clusters, meaning that the GP practice will be randomised rather than the individual patient. This type of trial design is common in public health research as it is particularly suited to testing differences in approaches towards patient care. Each cluster will consist of on average 470 patients with diabetes. Each cluster will be allocated at random to either issuing The Minuteful Kidney Test (plus usual care) or usual care alone. This allocation will be applicable to each patient within that cluster. The evaluation will tell us whether administering this test increases the diagnosis rates of CKD as well as the frequency at which the test is performed in patients with diabetes. The results of the evaluation will determine whether The Minuteful Kidney Test should be used instead of or alongside existing blood and urine tests in this particular group of patients.

Long-term graft failure rates continue to be unacceptably high despite the development of immunosuppressive drugs, underscoring the unmet need for robust prognostic biomarkers of allograft injury and failure. While rates of acute rejection (AR) continue to decrease, it remains the strongest predictor of long-term allograft survival, and so having a better understanding of factors predicting AR may contribute to more individualized patient care. Selecting optimum immunosuppressive dosage is another factor in personalizing kidney care. This project will study two areas of individualized kidney care: 1) assessing rejection by surveillance testing utilizing AlloSure, 2) developing an algorithm to select optimum immunosuppressive medication dosage.

This observational study explores the impact of cognitive impairment and frailty in older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease ]. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: What determines the time to initiate dialysis? Cognitive impairment or frailty? What does predict the time to death? Presence of frailty or cognitive impairment? What does correlate strongly with time-low health-related quality of life? frailty or cognitive impairment?

The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended dose of the sustained-release form of BPS (TRK-100STP low dose or high dose) in Japanese patients with CRF (Primary glomerular disease/nephrosclerosis).

To assess a new drug, BAY94-8862, given orally at different doses, to evaluate whether it was safe and can help the well-being of patients with worsening chronic heart failure and either type II diabetes with or without chronic kidney disease or kidney disease alone. These treatment doses were compared to eplerenone, another marketed drug approved to treat heart failure.

This study will compare hemodialysis treatment with a standard, high-bicarbonate dialysis bath versus a lower bicarbonate dialysis bath, and will compare intradialytic acid-base changes and overall control of metabolic acidosis with the 2 treatment regimens.

The study objective is to evaluate if a renal specific oral nutrition supplement (ONS) aids in maintaining nutritional status.