Active clinical trials for "Hyperparathyroidism"

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the long term vascular morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients based on one year post transplant levels of intact parathyroid hormone.

The aim of this post-marketing observational study is to obtain further data on the long term use, safety and efficacy of Zemplar as it is prescribed in the normal clinical setting and according to the approved Summary of Product Characteristics for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in hemodialysis patients in Greece.

We hypothesized that pre-treatment with methylene blue could potentiate the effects of general anaesthetic agents in patients undergoing parathyroidectomy

Hypothesis: Nontraditional risk factors, such as inflammation, vitamin D deficiency, elevated PTH, insulin resistance, homocysteine, or uric acid, contribute to cardiovascular disease progression after kidney transplant. The purpose of this study is to evaluate which traditional and nontraditional cardiovascular disease risk factors best predict progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using carotid intima media thickness performed by ultrasound, in kidney transplant patients.

The aim of this study is to assess the clinical, laboratory and vascular calcification outcome within 6 months duration in patients undergoing surgical parathyroidectomy (total, subtotal, and total with autotransplantation)

The main study aim is to quantify the agreement between the analytical results provided by two third generation and two second generation Parathyroid hormone (PTH) assays. The primary comparison will be performed between the second-generation PTH assay"Intact PTH assay" from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. and the third-generation PTH assay "biointact (1-84)" from Roche Diagnostics in terms of a Bland-Altman analysis. Several studies have evaluated the correlation between various PTH assays at a single time-point, but no previous study has tested the hypothesis that longitudinal changes in PTH levels, which are important for making treatment decisions, can be monitored by several PTH assays alike. To this aim, the key secondary objective is to analyze the longitudinal variance in PTH over the course of 1 year, using each of two assays of the second and third generations, respectively. Other secondary objectives include determining changes in serum phosphate, serum calcium, fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), with respect to treatment decisions. For clinical applicability of the results to be obtained here, an important goal of the present study will be not to influence treatment decisions, which will remain independent of the study investigators, at the full responsibility of the hemodialysis physicians. At every quarterly blood draw over the course of one year, the investigators will freeze the serum from 100 patients, and at the end of 4 quarters the investigators will analyze PTH-levels using the following assays: Intact Parathyroid Hormone (Advia Centaur, Siemens Healthcare), PTH-Intact (Cobas, Roche), PTH (1-84) - The agreement between the PTH assays will be analyzed at baseline, as well as at the subsequent quarterly evaluation time-points by Bland-Altman analysis and complemented by Passing-Bablok regression. The longitudinal changes in PTH will be displayed graphically and analyzed by estimating the within-patient variance across time, the between patient variance at each time-point as well as effects on the mean log-PTH level due to course of disease and therapeutic interventions from a linear mixed model.

Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common serious complication in the maintenance process of hemodialysis patients, characterized by diffuse or nodular hyperplasia of parathyroid glands. Parathyroidectomy for patients with drug-refractory SHPT is recommended in the clinical practice guidelines of the Global Organization for Improving Prognosis in Kidney Disease (KDIGO) and the Japanese Dialysis Therapy Society (JSDT) . Therefore, accurate localization and detection of parathyroid abnormalities is the key to avoid persistent recurrence of the disease. However, the sensitivity and specificity of the existing ultrasound and 99MTC-MIBI diagnosis are limited. CT examination is radiative and requires iodine contrast medium with nephrotoxicity, which may require timely dialysis and long-term monitoring for hemodialysis patients. 3T MRI has no radiation and does not need to use iodine contrast agent, which can well detect parathyroid lesions . Previous studies have reported that 3T MRI can diagnose primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), but the diagnostic efficacy of SHPT is still unclear. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the preoperative diagnostic value of non-enhanced 3T MRI compared with 4DCT in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism after hemodialysis.

This observational study will evaluate the clinical benefit of Zemplar (paricalcitol injection) in daily routine practice in end-stage renal disease patients with severe over-reactivity of parathyroid glands. Participants will be followed for 6 months. Data will be collected from participants initiated on Zemplar therapy according to standard of care. The time to achieving the maintenance dose of Zemplar (paricalcitol injection), the proportion of participants achieving target parathyroid hormone levels, and prevalence of elevated serum calcium and phosphate levels will be evaluated.

The purpose of this study is to obtain data on the use of Zemplar (paricalcitol) capsules in real-life clinical practice in predialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and secondary hyperparathyroidism.

The aim of this post-marketing observational study is to obtain further data on the long term use, safety and efficacy of selective Vitamin D Receptor Activator's as it is prescribed in the normal clinical setting and according to the approved Summary of Product Characteristics for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in hemodialysis patients in Turkey. The relation of the safety data to PTH (Parathyroid hormone) suppression over time will be evaluated. Also the number and incidence of hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia will be recorded.