Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

Purpose: to investigate the effect of bioimpedance analysis(BIA) guided fluid management versus experiential way on clinical outcome in peritoneal dialysis patients. Design: prospective,randomized,controlled,single center study Study hypothesis: Patients on peritoneal dialysis are frequently hypervolemic, which is associated with increasing hazard of death and cardiovascular events. Bioimpedance analysis is a safe, and easy way, which appears to be more useful and sensitive than other techniques for assessing volume status in dialysis patients. Therefore we hypothesize that more concise and strict fluid management guided by BIA may help to improve patients' survival, decrease cardiovascular events and hospitalization rate. Objects: incident and prevalent patients with overhydration status. anticipated cases:240 arms: all the patients are randomized into two arms.(BIA group/clinical group) observational time:12 months Primary Outcome: all cause mortality. Secondary Outcomes: technique survival, cardiovascular events, peritonitis, residual renal function.

A phase I, open-label study comparing the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety and tolerability of ticagrelor in hemodialysis patients to healthy subjects with normal renal function.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of neutral pH and low glucose degradation product (GDP)-containing peritoneal dialysis fluid (PDF) on systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction markers in incident PD patients.

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is the method of renal replacement therapy used by close to 200,000 end stage renal disease patients worldwide to help replace the functions that are no longer performed by their kidneys. An important advantage of PD is it offers an alternative to hemodialysis that can be safely performed by patients in their own homes. In PD, the peritoneal membrane that lines the abdomen acts as a dialyzer that allows the transfer of solutes and water between the membrane capillaries and a dialysis solution that is infused into the peritoneal cavity. PD dialysis solutions typically require high concentrations of glucose to adequately perform these functions. Over time the continued exposure of the peritoneal membrane to high concentrations of glucose can permanently damage the membrane. Icodextrin is a polyglucose molecule that has been developed for use in PD solutions that does not harm the peritoneal membrane. However, its use can lead to inadequate fluid removal. Recent research has focused on finding a PD solution, or combination of solutions, that will maximize the removal of toxic substances and metabolites while maintaining regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance in the body. A bimodal solution that combines glucose and icodextrin has been shown in observational studies to be effective and safe. The investigators propose a randomized, controlled, blinded study that will determine the effectiveness and safety of this bimodal fluid in a Canadian PD population. The investigators hypothesize that the use of the bimodal solution during the long (day) dwell will lead to an improvement in 24 hour ultrafiltration efficiency as compared to usual care using icodextrin for the long dwell.

MYRE is a phase III multicentric controlled national clinical trial conducted in patients with multiple myeloma and renal failure related to myeloma cast nephropathy (MCN). Its aims are to assess (1) the efficacy of bortezomib plus dexamethasone (BD), compared with cyclophosphamide, plus bortezomib and dexamethasone (C-BD) in patients with inaugural MCN not requiring hemodialysis; and (2) in patients with inaugural severe renal failure secondary to biopsy-proven MCN and requiring hemodialysis that of an intensive hemodialysis regimen using either a dialyser with very high permeability to proteins (TheraliteTM) or a conventional high-flux dialyser, while receiving chemotherapy with BD.

The purpose of this study is to study the effect of zinc supplementation in end stage renal failure on hemocystein level.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether vitamin C, vitamin E and their combination are effective in the treatment of RLS in hemodialysis patients.

A pilot randomized trial that compares a new renal nutritional supplement with the standard renal vitamin. The primary objective is to compare two doses (medium and high) of the new supplement with the renal vitamin currently being prescribed to people with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Secondary objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of recruitment for a definitive larger trial.

The purpose of the parent study is to assess the short-term safety and tolerability of soluble ferric pyrophosphate (SFP) in dialysate administered to a large number of representative adult chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis (CKD-HD). The purpose of the extension study is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of SFP.

The purpose of the study is to determine the effect and optimum dose and evaluate the safety of ferric citrate, administered three times daily (TID) immediately after meals for a total daily dose of 4 or 6 grams for 56 days, on serum phosphate (PO4) levels in subjects with end stage renal disease (ESRD).