Active clinical trials for "Kidney Diseases"

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and biocompatibility of the Nipro Elisio 210H dialyzer between two dialysis modalities, conventional hemodialysis and on line hemodiafiltration.

TITLE Randomised Control Trial (RCT) for improving functional outcome from stroke in renal disease patients DESIGN Eandomised Conrol Study AIMS Undertake detailed characterisation of stroke (including recently developed imaging techniques at Imperial) of stroke in renal disease patients including clinical, imaging and epidemiological data To Investigate if passive intervention using hand grip device during dialysis sessions will improve functional outcome from stroke in end stage renal disease patients. OUTCOME MEASURES Primary outcome:. 3 months change in Upper-Extremity Fugl-Meyer scores. Secondary outcome: 3 months change in NIHS & Bartel scores POPULATION Ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke patients with renal disease treated at Hammersmith's Hospital's renal Unit. . ELIGIBILITY Data of all patients with renal disease and imaging proven stroke will be retrospectively analysed. RCT will be conducted on End Stage Renal Disease patients with acute (<7 days) stroke affecting arm. DURATION 2 years

The purpose of this study is to summarize the percentage of participants achieving age-specific Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) targets for serum phosphorus in hyperphosphatemic children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are on dialysis, following 8 weeks of treatment with lanthanum carbonate.

End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients exhibit an extraordinarily high annual mortality. Cardiovascular (CV) causes account for almost half of all-cause mortality. Increased left ventricular mass (LVM) is a common finding in ESRD patients on dialysis and is an independent predictor of survival. Yet, to date there is no established medical treatment to reduce CV morbidity and mortality in ESRD patients on hemodialysis. Blockade of aldosterone action by means of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) provides cardioprotection and improves outcome in heart failure patients. Furthermore, the MRA spironolactone has recently been shown to reduce LVM in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD). The investigators here hypothesize that spironolactone treatment is cardioprotective by reducing LVM in ESRD patients on dialysis.

The purpose of this study is to show biosimilarity of HX575 epoetin alfa with the US licensed reference product Epogen®/Procrit® when applied subcutaneously. This study is intended to generate data supporting that the efficacy and safety under treatment with HX575 and Epogen®/Procrit® are comparable.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical safety and efficacy of QingReMoShen Granule to treat idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

This study was conducted to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease. Anemia is a reduced number of red blood cells or hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is important for the transport of oxygen in your blood. The purpose of the study was to see if Roxadustat is both effective and safe as a treatment for anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Background Arteriovenous (AV) fistula is the most common vascular access for long-term hemodialysis in the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. About 25% of these patients are diabetes mellitus. However, the effects of hyperglycemia on the vascular function of arteriovenous fistula are still remained unclear. Studies have shown that blood flow in the AV fistula is significantly reduced in patients with diabetes mellitus. Diabetic patients also require a longer period of time for the maturation of AV fistula, and have slightly higher complication rate than non-diabetic patients. Statins have been widely shown to mediate several important pleiotropic effects in the improvement of vascular endothelial dysfunction, attenuation of inflammatory responses, stabilization of atherosclerotic plaques, inhibition of vascular smooth muscle proliferation, and modulation of procoagulant activity and platelet function.Our experimental studies in diabetic animals demonstrate that administration of a water-soluble statin rosuvastatin significantly improves the fistula flow, vascular function and luminal dilatation of AV fistula in diabetic rats by suppression of vascular oxidative stress and inflammatory load. Study hypothesis The central hypothesis of this research project is rosuvastatin mediates pleiotropic protective effect on vascular endothelial function and suppresses the regional pro-inflammatory reaction in the vasculature, therefore administration of rosuvastatin during the perioperative period of creation of native AV fistulas in diabetic patients with ESRD may potentiate the vascular function and reduce the primary failure rate of AV fistulae.

The objective of this study is to assess the performance and safety of the Optiflow Anastomotic Connector (Optiflow) when used to facilitate the creation of autogenous arteriovenous fistula (AVF) anastomoses.

The study is aiming to document the safety and effectiveness of renal denervation in patients after renal transplantation with hypertension. Catheter-based renal denervation will be performed using CE marked, percutaneous Symplicity catheter.