Active clinical trials for "Kidney Diseases"

The aim of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic exercise effects in patients with chronic kidney disease. An interventional prospective study is carried out. A sample of 9 patients with chronic kidney disease is recruited. The kidney function (creatinine clearance as main outcome) is measured at baseline and 1 month after treatment start.

The overall goal of this study is to develop and test effectively framed mobile health (mHealth) messages to promote medication adherence in teens with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Hypertension is an increasingly common problem in children, especially among those who are obese or with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. This study is a pilot randomized controlled trial designed to test whether improved blood pressure control can be achieved with the use of remote home blood pressure monitoring in children with uncontrolled blood pressure.

Over 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), increasing risk for early death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despite advances in glycemic and blood pressure control, a child diagnosed with T1D is expected to live up to 17 years less than non-diabetic peers. The strongest risk factor for CVD and mortality in T1D is diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Current treatments, such as control of hyperglycemia and hypertension, are beneficial, but only partially protect against DKD. This limited progress may relate to a narrow focus on clinical manifestations of disease, rather than on the initial metabolic derangements underlying the initiation of DKD. Renal hypoxia, stemming from a potential metabolic mismatch between increased renal energy expenditure and impaired substrate utilization, is increasingly proposed as a unifying early pathway in the development of DKD. T1D is impacted by several mechanisms which increase renal adenosine triphosphate (ATP) consumption and decrease ATP generation. Caffeine, a methylxanthine, is known to alter kidney function by several mechanisms including natriuresis, hemodynamics and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. In contrast, to other natriuretic agents, caffeine is thought to fully inhibit the local tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) response to increased distal sodium delivery. This observation has broad-ranging implications as caffeine can reduce renal oxygen (O2) consumption without impairing effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR). There are also data suggesting that chemicals in coffee besides caffeine may provide important cardio-renal protection. Yet, there are no data examining the impact of coffee-induced natriuresis on intrarenal hemodynamic function and renal energetics in youth-onset T1D. Our overarching hypothesis in the proposed pilot and feasibility trial is that coffee drinking improves renal oxygenation by reducing renal O2 consumption without impairing GFR and ERPF. To address these hypotheses, we will measure GFR, ERPF, renal perfusion and oxygenation in response to 7 days of cold brew coffee (one Starbucks® Cold brew 325ml bottle daily [205mg caffeine]) in an open-label pilot and feasibility trial in 10 adolescents with T1D already enrolled in the CASPER Study (PI: Bjornstad).

In China, the estimated prevalence of patients with ESRD receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) or maintenance hemodialysis (HD) increased from 51.7 per million population (pmp) at the end of 2007 to 79.1 pmp at the end of 2008. There is a growing body of evidence that large uremic solutes play a significant role in clinical complications in dialysis patients. Since high-flux membranes show low permeability for large uremic solutes, extracorporeal blood purification treatments using these membranes have failed to significantly eliminate and reduce plasma levels of these molecules. To remove large sized uremic solutes by dialysis the membrane needs to have adequate permeability properties (pore size, porosity) for these solutes. The Theranova 400 contains a dialysis membrane that has a sharper sieving profile and a higher cutoff than that in conventional high-flux dialysis membranes. The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate non-inferiority of the Theranova Dialyzer compared to the FX80 with clinical endpoints.

This study evaluates the efficacy of PA21 in comparison with sevelamer carbonate (Renvela®) in lowering and maintaining serum phosphorus in adult Chinese subjects with CKD on dialysis after 12 weeks of treatment.

Daprodustat is a drug that is currently being developed as a treatment for renal anemia . This study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of daprodustat following a switch from erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) in Japanese HD subjects with renal anemia who are currently treated with ESA. The primary objective is to demonstrate non-inferiority of daprodustat to darbepoetin alfa. This study is a 52-week, Phase III, double-blind, active-controlled, parallel-group, multi-center study. The total duration of the study will be approximately 58 weeks including screening and follow-up.

The primary objective of the study is to assess the long term safety of treatment with tolvaptan in children and adolescents with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). The secondary objective is to assess the pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of tolvaptan in the same participant population.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and the safety when ASP1517 is intermittently administered in Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agent (ESA)-untreated non-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients with anemia.

The primary objective is to assess the effect of 2 dose levels of SNF472 (300 mg and 600 mg) compared to placebo on the progression of coronary artery calcium volume score over a 12-month (52 weeks) period in ESRD patients on HD