Active clinical trials for "Kidney Diseases"

The REGENT study (Familiar Renal Disease, Epidemiology and Genetics in Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro) is a epidemiological study that try to identify and clinically describe questions about genetic renal diseases in a southeast Brazilian population undergoing renal replacement therapy.

The Purpose of this study is to examine whether evidence of channeling exists by analyzing within a cohort of participants with first prescriptions of single-ingredient paracetamol or ibuprofen (or both) whether participants with paracetamol were more likely to have an ibuprofen-related contraindication.

A retrospective cohort study was conducted in 66 end-stage renal disease patients who underwent high-efficiency hemodiafiltration technique in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between 2001-2013 to determine the survival rate as well as other long-term outcome.

The energy and nutrition states are closely associated with CKD patients complications and outcomes.To reach the energy balance target, we need the accurate resting energy expenditure level of patients. Traditional equations are not applicable to CKD patients,so we aim to develop and validate a equation for estimating resting energy expenditure in CKD patients.

Treatment of patients with end-stage renal disease and critical limb ischemia still poses challenges to vascular medicine due to limited survival, comorbidities and infrapopliteal involvement of arteriosclerosis in these patients. Most optimal vascular therapy mode has not been finally decided in these patients. Therefore retrospective analysis of patients receiving open surgical and endovascular revascularisation was performed.

The discovery of antenatal bilateral renal anomaly poses an essential question: can we predict postnatal renal function? Ultrasound is insufficiently precise to predict postnatal renal function evolution. The objective of this study is to estimate the specificity and sensitivity of amniotic fluid biomarkers to predict postnatal renal function in fetuses with bilateral developmental nephropathies. Both fetuses with bilateral renal anomalies and control (healthy) fetuses will be included. For this study amniotic fluid will only be collected according to routine clinical practice and only excess amniotic fluid sample will be used for the study. The potentially identified biomarkers will not change routine management of the pregnancies in the study.

In kidney diseases, tubule-interstitium has become much more relevant, as formerly only the glomerulus was considered to have the main importance. Kidney's tubular atrophy and interstitital fibrosis is now recognized as long term prognostic value. We aim to evaluate the function of the kidney's tubule-interstitium through furosemide excretion after intravenous administration of this drug, and correlate the rate of excretion of furosemide with interstitial fibrosis findings in scheduled kidney biopsy for patients with chronic kidney disease.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of CKD-related anemia at an early stage through screening of high-risk patients in Pakistan at the level of physicians, cardiologists, and diabetologists. The information gathered may serve as a foundation in formulating national guidelines for better early diagnosis and management of patients with CKD.

Empowering Patients On Choices for Renal Replacement Therapy (EPOCH-RRT) study seeks to identify factors that matter the most to patients with kidney disease and study how they are impacted by different types of dialysis. The inclusion of patients, caregivers, and patient advocacy organizations as research partners will assure that the study addresses questions of greatest relevance to patients facing the need for dialysis. Aim two is based on preliminary results of Aim one interviews, and in collaboration with the Patient Advisory Panel, the investigators developed a brief questionnaire to be administered to participants in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) and Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS). Two separate versions of the questionnaire were created to reflect unique aspects of in-center hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD).

Managing fluid status is a complex but fundamental part of the clinical care of people receiving haemodialysis (HD). Day-to-day fluid management is usually based on the concept of 'target weight' - the weight used to determine how much fluid should be removed during each dialysis session. However, the focus of this approach is usually on avoiding fluid overload (hypervolaemia), since this is associated with a higher incidence of cardiovascular and pulmonary events, in addition to increased morbidity and morbidity. As a consequence, a significant proportion of people on maintenance HD spend a great deal of time in a dehydrated state. Although dehydration is known to be associated with a number of unwanted consequences (e.g. headaches, severe fatigue, impaired cognitive and physiological function), there has been little research focusing on the impact dehydration has on the physical and psychosocial well-being of this patient group. Considering the short life expectancy of individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) reliant on maintenance HD, particularly those who are unable to receive a renal transplant, we should be focused on improving their function and quality of life (QoL). Key issues that need addressing prior to developing interventions in this cohort are 1) investigating the best and alternative measures to assess hydration status and 2) documenting the biopsychosocial impact of typical target weight driven HD in a well-designed study.