Active clinical trials for "Kidney Diseases"

To investigate the Effect of Hyperuricaemia on Chronic Renal Disease and Intervention

This study evaluates the clinical efficacy and study the therapeutic mechanism of a kind of traditional Chinese medicine colonic dialysis on Chronic kidney disease (CKD) 5 without blood dialysis therapy in adults. Half of participants will receive conventional integrated therapy on chronic renal failure (CRF), while the other half will receive integrated therapy on CRF and traditional Chinese medicine colonic dialysis.

This parallel-group, randomized, placebo-controlled study will examine the incidence and severity of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage III/IV following an i.v. injection of iso-osmolar iodinated contrast material iodixanol (Visipaque™ Injection 320 mgI/mL), as compared with patients who received saline and underwent a non-enhanced CT (NECT) and duplex ultrasound (US) during their scheduled post-EVAR surveillance imaging.

Objectives: Evaluate the effect of CPAP to reduce the progression of chronic kidney disease or CKD (the decline of glomerular filtration rate is ≥ 30%) in patients with early-stage renal disease and sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Other objectives are; determine the prevalence of OSAS in patients with early-stage renal disease and evaluate the changes in inflamatories markers and endothelial damage, the state of KDIGO, cardiovascular events, mortality and cost-effectiveness analysis in CPAP group versus non-CPAP group patients. Methods: A prospective, multicentric, randomized and controlled study will be carried out for 3 years. Early-stage renal disease (G1-3 KDIGO) and OSAS patients will be included. The investigators will make a respiratory polygraphy to determinate OSAS (AHI ≥15/h) and after that, the investigators randomized patients in 2 groups; CPAP group and control group (non-CPAP treatment). Patients with AHI <15/h (non-OSAS) will be the reference group and the half of these patients, randomly chosen, will be followed up at the end of the follow up. Statistic analysis: the investigators will analyze the differences in glomerular filtration rate before and after the treatment, comparing the percentage of patients with CKD progression for both groups. The investigators will use the chi square test with raw data and adjusted for confounding variables using intention to treat analysis with imputation of missing values.

This study evaluates the effect of high-flux hemodialysis compared to hemodiafiltration on small and moderate molecule substances clearance. Meanwhile, this study evaluates the effect of high-flux hemodialysis compared to hemodiafiltration on cardiac function. In this self matching study, participants will receive high-flux hemodialysis compared to hemodiafiltration.

Control of blood pressure (BP) is the first thing to do in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although guidelines suggest the optimal blood pressure level, it is hard to assess BP correctly during the office visit. Often there is a discrepancy between office BP and out-of-office BP, including home BP and ambulatory BP. Recent study reported that as many as 34% of Korean CKD patients had masked hypertension, which means high BP by ambulatory BP monitoring but normal BP by conventional office BP measurement. This study aims to evaluate the effect of ambulatory BP-guided BP management on the clinical outcome of CKD, compared to the conventional management using office BP.

The central hypothesis of this project is that Aliskiren causes a substantial decrease in MSNA in hypertensive patients with CKD.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether, in patients with chronic proteinuric nephropathy and dyslipidemia, ezetimibe-simvastatin combined therapy is more effective than statin alone to achieve the optimum lipid control, and if this translates to an improvement of the markers of vascular damage. Thirty hypertensive patients in stable therapy with RAS inhibitors, with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol superior to 100 mg/ml, are treated with three different hypolipidemic regimens: Simvastatin alone (40 mg/day) or ezetimibe/simvastatin combined therapy (10/20 or 10/40 mg/day).

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the oral anti-diabetic drug, Thiazolidine (TZD) is effective in suppression of onset or progressin of diabetic nephropathy in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients.

This is a post-authorisation safety study to assess the incidence and severity of all pre-defined cardiovascular events in patients treated with DYNEPO, as well as to detect & describe less common adverse drug reactions, and to summarise DYNEPO drug utilisation.