Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

Although hemodialysis is life-saving, unfortunately, people on dialysis often have declining health, quality of life as well as poor nutritional status. Hemodialysis patients must follow a very restrictive diet, and many patients do not eat well and usually report poor appetites. A new approach to dialysis is being used in some hospitals in Alberta and elsewhere, called in-centre nocturnal hemodialysis. This in-centre nocturnal dialysis allows people to receive their dialysis at a hospital or clinic while they sleep. Since this in-centre nocturnal dialysis gives people 8-hour hemodialysis treatment 3 times per week (24 hours of dialysis per week) the patients have better removal of the waste products from their bodies than conventional hemodialysis (an average of 12 hours per week). Also of importance, when using in-centre nocturnal dialysis, people will have more time during the day to work, spend with family, as well as have time to shop for food, to cook and even to eat, which in turn will likely result in improvement in the quality of their lives. This study will follow 10 patients on conventional dialysis and 10 patients on in-centre nocturnal dialysis for 6 months and compare their food intake, muscle mass, weight, body mass index (BMI) and nutrition-related lab tests. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an improvement in the nutritional status of the in-centre nocturnal hemodialysis patients compared to the nutritional status of conventional hemodialysis patients.

CKD is defined as kidney damage for ≥3 months, as defined by structural and or functional abnormalities of the kidney, with or without decreased GFR or GFR <60 mL/min/1.73m2 for ≥3 months, with or without kidney damage. CKD is classified based on cause, GFR category, and albuminuria category (CGA). ESRD has become a public health problem worldwide, with recent reports showing that the total number of ESRD patients has been growing dramatically.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether aspirin resistance has impact on cardiovascular event in dialysis patient.

This study is designed for volume assessment in pediatrics during major surgery using non-invasive tools as ultrasonography without the need of invasive techniques avoiding its complications and as a guide for fluid therapy needed for maintaining adequate hemodynamics

Starting in late 2019, the world is facing a pandemic with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Patients with end-stage kidney disease and on treatment with renal replacement therapy are high risk patients, as they are unable to maximize social distancing. We plan to gather epidemiological data using two different diagnostic approaches. We will compare a symptom-driven screening, in combination with a nasopharyngeal swab plus computed tomography (clinical approach) against serological surveillance.

In 2014, the "States General of Kidney" have allowed to assess the situation concerning the management of chronic kidney disease on the national territory. Ex-Languedoc-Roussillon has emerged as one of the French regions with a high dialysis / transplant ratio compared to other regions. Disparities in accessibility to the kidney transplant list were also very important. In the ex-Languedoc-Roussillon Region, the number of patients on the renal transplant list was lower than the national average (18.9 vs. 24.1%, respectively, according to the REIN 2015 report). In 2015, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) ex-Languedoc-Roussillon, has published proposals to improve the healthcare of the patient in chronic end stage renal failure, and accessibility to the national waiting list for renal transplantation (CRISTAL). To increase accessibility to the national waiting list for renal transplantation by improving the patient's healthcare, our project is based on the creation of a reinforced exchanges connexion between the hospital's nephrology services professionals, dialysis units and liberal nephrologists. This will include having regular meetings between dialysis nephrologists and CHU nephrologists. The proposals for this project were: to organize multidisciplinary consultation meetings between transplant and dialysis professionals to set up an exchange platform and communication tools built on the model of telemedicine (COVOTEM), common to the nephrology departments of the University Hospital Center, dialysis units. This new device for the management of chronic end stage renal failure should increase the number of patients on the national renal transplantation waiting list. It should also make it possible to reduce the time between: firstly, the sending of the pre-registration file to the transplantation at Montpellier University Hospital and registration, and secondly between dialysis and registration.on waiting list. The investigators hope that this experiment will increase the number of registrations on the National Kidney Transplantation Waitlist (CRISTAL). The implementation of this innovative tool should facilitate communication between nephrologists dialysis centers and nephrologists of CHU Montpellier, and accelerate the process of registration on the National Kidney Transplantation Waitlist. If this platform proves to be easy to use and if the project's evaluation criteria show significant results, the platform could then be used to monitor patients in post-transplantation. Indeed, the data of patients who perform an alternating follow-up would be available for the referring nephrologists and for the transplant center. The further development of the platform would allow to create a mode of communication via this platform.

The kidneys are important at getting rid of toxins and excess water from the body. If they fail, then toxins and excess water builds up within the body. Kidney failure is treated by either giving patients a new kidney (a transplant) or by removing the toxins and fluid from the body by the process of dialysis. The investigators' aim is to personalise the care given to patients with kidney failure, and as such, they have started measuring the fitness of patients with kidney failure, who either already require dialysis or may need dialysis in the near future. This is currently done in a number of ways including measuring how strong their grip is, assessing their walking speed and asking questions about how difficult they find certain activities. In the future, the investigators think that this will allow targeted treatments to help improve their fitness and potentially identify any problems earlier. Current approaches to measuring activity and fitness have limitations and in particular may over- or underestimate the level of the physical activity. To over come these limitations, participants will be asked to wear an activity tracker (called an accelerometer) on for a week. Readings from the accelerometer will be compared against the other markers of fitness and activity to see if they are comparable. It will also be noted whether patients are prepared to wear the device for 7 days (compliance).

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the change of serum and dialysate sodium level during hemodialysis can influence on blood pressure and intradialytic weight gain in chronic hemodialysis patients.

Dialysis patients typically undergo 3 treatments a week every other day with an almost 3 day gap during the weekend. After this gap and before the first dialysis of the week the serum Potassium level is expected to be maximal. Participants will be recruited from the dialysis clinic at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. The research team would personally meet the patients who answer inclusion criteria f and ask whether they wish to participate. Each willing participant will undergo Sialometry and blood will be drawn from the dialysis connections for CBC and Biochemistry to establish a baseline. The study measurements namely Sialometry and collection of Saliva as well as blood test will be taken before the initiation of the dialysis. Blood testing will be done via the laboratories of the Hadassah hospital. Saliva analysis will be done in the research lab of Prof. Doron Aframian.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of non-invasive markers of the autonomic function and micro- and macrocirculation to predict mortality and cardiovascular end points in end-stage renal disease patients. Furthermore we aim at getting new insight into the insufficiently understood pathophysiology leading to excessively high cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients.