Active clinical trials for "Kidney Diseases"

This is a prospective international multi-centre, observational cohort study of incident and prevalent patients diagnosed with a kidney disease

The human gastrointestinal tract harbours ~40 trillion microbial cells, far outnumbering the cell number, and therefore the genetic content of its host. How this genetically diverse bacterial (collectively referred as 'microbiota') co-resident modulates host homeostasis is largely unknown. We are increasing gaining a better understanding how the microbes modulate mucosal and systemic metabolic/immune and organ systems including the kidney, heart and the brain. Therapeutic targeting of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota may help improve clinical outcomes in conditions as diverse as arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. In contrast to other organ systems, studies investigating the role of the microbiota in modulating clinical outcomes in renal transplantation lags behind. The aim of the study is to examine (a) how alterations in the urinary and GI microbiota and associated metabolites impact on host immunity after renal transplantation, and (b) whether such changes are correlated with post-transplant complications, such as rejection, development of de novo donor specific antibodies, metabolic complications (e.g post-transplant diabetes) and infections. Participants will be followed before and up to twelve months post-transplantation, and, longitudinal microbial data will be correlated with in-depth immune phenotyping and clinical end-points to define the impact that changes in urinary and GI microbial ecology have on kidney transplant outcomes.

Maternal physiological adaptation to pregnancy plays an important role in the smooth progress of the pregnancy and the healthy growth of the fetus. This physiological adaptation takes place at the level of several organs, including the kidney. Physiological changes during a normal pregnancy take place at the anatomical, glomerular and tubular level. In the event of pre-existing kidney damage (glomerular and tubular diseases, stone disease, high blood pressure (hypertension) etc...) these adaptations will not be optimal. This will have implications for: the course of the pregnancy with the occurrence of feto-maternal complications: miscarriages, pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), low birth weight, prematurity. The risk of feto-maternal complications increases with the degree of renal failure or with certain pathologies such as lupus. progression of kidney disease Some maternal complications have long-term implications: preeclampsia is associated with a high risk of subsequent cardiovascular and renal complications. Pregnancies in these patients are high-risk pregnancies and require specialized management by an experienced group of gynecologists and nephrologists. The creation of a retrospective and prospective register by collecting demographic, clinical, biological, radiological and genetic data concerning patients at each consultation within the CHU Brugmann Hospital will allow: to establish the epidemiological and clinico-biological characteristics of the patients followed at the Kidney and Pregnancy Clinic at the CHU Brugmann Hospital to analyze the risk factors for feto-maternal complications to analyze the risk factors for the occurrence of subsequent cardio-renal pathologies in patients who have had preeclampsia or an event during their pregnancy to identify patients who will need specialized genetic testing

There is no validated self-questionnaire to assess salt and potassium intake in nephrology patients. Using Bayesian models, researchers developed clinical prediction tools to estimate salt and potassium intake in nephrology patients. These prediction tools performed well, with an accuracy of 89% for salt and 74% for potassium, and have undergone internal validation. Currently, the investigators wish to conduct an external validation study of these clinical prediction tools using data from patients followed at 3 nephrologic centers to generalize the performance results of the tools.

Diabetes nephropathy (DN) is one of the most serious microvascular complications of diabetes, and also an important cause of death and disability of diabetes patients. There is no specific clinical staging of type 2 diabetes nephropathy at home and abroad, and there is no comprehensive study to comprehensively describe the occurrence and development of type 2 diabetes nephropathy through sensitive biomarkers, microvascular disease imaging and functional detection, digital markers and other multi-dimensional diagnosis and evaluation methods. Therefore, our research aims to establish a long-term follow-up queue for the whole cycle of diabetes nephropathy, develop multi-dimensional diagnostic and progress digital markers for diabetes nephropathy, develop a multimodal non-invasive diagnostic model and a new clinical staging/typing, and create a multi-dimensional accurate diagnosis and treatment system for type 2 diabetes nephropathy combining traditional Chinese and western medicine.

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the KidneyIntelX assay utilized as part of the current standard of care on the management of patients seen in the primary care physician's office at Mount Sinai.

Fetal colic hyper-echogenicity is a presenting symptoms for cystinuria lysinuria. A few cases of fetuses with dibasic protein intolerance (more complex prognosis) presented with colic hyper-echogenicity antenatal. The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the outcome of fetuses with colic hyperechogenicity in order to increase prenatal counseling

The clinical utility trial is designed to evaluate how the results of KidneyIntelX test / platform impacts on the clinical management of type 2 diabetes patients identified as increased risk for rapid kidney function decline within 5-years.

International, multicentre, randomized 1:1 controlled trial to prove the clinical and medico economic benefits of the medical device Predigraft, by showing that the use of Predigraft could improve patient's follow-up.

a prospective, observational, multi-center study with a cohort of 300 patients with Type 2 diabetes and macroalbuminuria. Prospectively we will collect kidney biopsies and analyse the transciptome of the kidney tissue and other biomarkers from blood, faeces, urine, proteomic- and metabolomic profiles and DNA-variants. Thereby we hope to be able to discover molecular and clinical profiles, that can help us in the diagnosis of DKD, and to identify different risks of progression that can benefit from different forms of personalized treatment.