Active clinical trials for "Acute Kidney Injury"

Acute renal failure, now referred to as acute kidney injury, is common in intensive care unit patients, contributes to high morbidity and mortality, and has no proven interventions with benefit once established. In addition to supportive care, these patients frequently receive diuretic therapy, most commonly furosemide. Prior trials showed no impact of furosemide on clinical outcomes and perhaps harm, however, these trials suffered from numerous limitations and lack applicability to modern intensive care unit patients. As a result, there appears a disconnect between clinical practice and available evidence. Survey data supports the view of clinical equipoise for use of furosemide in intensive care unit patients with early acute kidney injury. Moreover, these data also confirm there is an urgent need for higher quality and more definitive evidence from randomized trial on furosemide use in early acute kidney injury. Accordingly, the investigators propose to conduct a pilot phase II randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial comparing furosemide to placebo in ICU patients with early acute kidney injury. The specific aims of this study are: To compare the efficacy and safety of a continuous infusion of furosemide versus placebo titrated to the physiology parameter of urine output in early acute kidney injury on the primary outcome of progression in severity of kidney injury in intensive care unit patients with early AKI and stratified by the presence of sepsis. To evaluate selected secondary endpoints on the impact of furosemide versus placebo, specifically: fluid balance goals; electrolyte and acid-base balance; the need for renal replacement therapy (i.e. dialysis); total duration of acute kidney injury; the rate of renal recovery; and mortality. To compare the impact of furosemide versus placebo on the trajectory of serum and urinary biomarkers (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin [NGAL], interleukin-18 [IL-18]) and evaluate whether these biomarkers perform superior to conventional measures (creatinine, urea) for monitoring the progression of kidney injury and the prediction of outcome. This trial represents part of a larger initiative aimed towards expanding our understanding of the treatment of acute kidney injury in intensive care unit patients and evaluating interventions that may potentially reduce kidney injury and improve clinical outcomes.

Ischemic acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is one of the main cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in intensive care units (ICU). Sepsis and cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) are major providers. There is no validated tool to predict the evolution of AKI is ICU. Furosemide Stress Test (FST) may predict evolution of ATN-related AKI outside ICU in terms of progressive AKI, need for renal replacement therapy (RRT) or inpatient mortality with improved performance comparing to biomarkers. FST has not been validated in a prospective cohort in ICU in the settings of ischemic ATN. FURTHER aim to determine whether FST would be a useful tool to identify patients with slight to moderate AKI (KDIGO stage 1 and 2) who will evolve towards need for RRT following AKIKI (The Artificial Kidney Initiation in Kidney Injury ) delayed initiation criteria.

Phase 3 multicenter study to be conducted in up to 90 qualified participating sites globally to assess the efficacy and safety of Reltecimod vs placebo in patients with sepsis-associated Stage 2/3 AKI.

Since its inception, KPMP has developed sophisticated protocols for collection and analysis of human kidney tissue, and for collection of biofluids. Members of the consortium have wide-ranging expertise in conducting clinical studies, processing kidney tissue, advanced structural and molecular analysis and complex bioinformatics analysis, which will be used to leverage effectively as a group to better understand kidney disease. This joint protocol aims to synergize the COVID-19 study efforts of KPMP academic research centers, to collectively study COVID-19, including its renal presentation using kidney tissue and/or biofluids from patients suffering from COVID-19. This will increase the breadth and depth of data available to the public to expedite discoveries, identify therapeutics, and improve outcomes for patients with COVID-19. It will additionally bring the expertise of KPMP investigators to bear against this pandemic.

The purpose of this research is to determine if an investigational new drug solution called Prismocitrate 18 lengthens extracorporeal circuit life in patients treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Patients who receive CRRT treatment with Prismocitrate 18 as the anticoagulant will be compared to patients who receive CRRT treatment with no anticoagulation.

This is a Phase 1, open-label, single-dose study of the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of Minocin® (minocycline) for injection in subjects with renal insufficiency.

Kidney injury is a serious complication of cardiac surgery that occurs in up to 30% of patients and increases the risk of adverse outcomes. Kidney injury initiates when oxygen supply to the kidney drops below levels that are needed for normal cellular function, causing tissue oxygen deficiency (hypoxia), activation of the inflammatory cascade, and oxidative stress. Together, these events further impair tissue oxygenation, culminating in impaired kidney function due to cellular injury and death. There are no effective therapies for kidney injury after cardiac surgery, but there is evidence that recovery is possible if the processes of injury - i.e., impaired oxygen delivery, increased inflammatory response, and oxidative stress - are ameliorated soon after the onset of injury. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) - which entails the intermittent inhalation of 100% oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber at a pressure higher than one absolute atmosphere (> 760 mmHg) - has been shown to positively affect all of these processes (i.e., to improve tissue oxygenation, reduce inflammation, and reduce oxidative stress). Thus, we hypothesized that HBOT will reduce the severity of kidney injury after cardiac surgery if it is initiated soon after onset of injury. This hypothesis has not been tested in humans, but is supported by animal studies. In this first-in-human, unblinded, controlled pilot trial, 20 adult patients who develop severe kidney injury soon after cardiac surgery will be randomized (after obtaining informed consent from the patient or surrogate) to standard-of-care or early HBOT. Severe kidney injury will be defined as a ≥30% drop in kidney function within 6 hours of surgery (as determined by change in creatinine from before surgery to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission). This degree of injury occurs in ~ 2% of patients and is associated with a 12-fold increase in the risk of complete kidney failure (requiring dialysis) or death. Patients will be excluded if they have any relative or absolute contraindications to HBOT (e.g., severe ventricular dysfunction, ventricular assist device, severe respiratory dysfunction, pneumothorax, bronchospasm).

In this study the investigators will evaluate the long-term renal function in children treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) due to acute kidney injury (AKI) and multiple organ failure (MOF) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). These children are not always referred for nephrology follow up after their ICU stay and it is unclear to what extent the patients suffer from chronic renal disease. The primary aim is to establish the frequency of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children treated with CRRT due to AKI. Secondary outcomes will include mortality, frequency of end stage-renal disease (ESRD) and need for hemodialysis and/or renal transplantation.

Acute renal injury (AKI) is a common complication after cytoreductive surgery combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC), and is associated with worse outcomes. Available evidences show that maintaining intraoperative urine output ≥ 200 ml/h by fluid and furosemide administration may reduce the incidence of AKI in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. The investigators hypothesize that, for patients undergoing CRS-HIPEC, intraoperative urine-volume guided hydration may also reduce the incidence of postoperative AKI.

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in inpatients when information from the 'PRIME solution' (AKI prediction program utilizing artificial intelligence) is provided. The main questions it aims to answer are: •[When Artificial intelligence (AI) provides information regarding AKI occurrence prediction within 48 hours, what would change in the physician's behavior?] •[If provided with AI information, what would be the incidence of AKI, severe AKI (stage 2 or 3), kidney replacement therapy, and changes in mortality during hospitalization?] In the case of the intervention group that receives AI information, autonomous treatment is conducted by referring to AI prediction information. Researchers will compare it with a usual-care group that does not receive AI prediction results.