Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of using two dialysers to lower the blood mineral levels in people receiving hemodialysis as compared to using one dialyser (usual treatment).

This is a research study for people with high blood phosphorus levels who are on dialysis. This medical condition can cause weakening of the bones and damage other organs. This can lead to many health problems, and sometimes death. Phosphorus is in much of the food we eat, and is helpful to us in small amounts. Patients with kidney failure have trouble getting rid of the phosphorus eaten in food. Dialysis can help remove some of the phosphorus, but often patients must take a phosphate binder like PhosLo®, Renagel®, or Renvela® to bring the blood phosphorus levels back to normal. The purpose of this study is to see if KRX-0502 (ferric citrate) is safe and effective as a phosphate binder.

This study was performed to determine whether calcitriol provides a therapeutic advantage to alfacalcidol for treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in ESRD patients.

Cyclosporine is the key drug in organ transplantation. In Iran the investigators have more than 2500 new renal transplantation each year and because of this the government pay a huge amount of money for subsiding the imported cyclosporine in the form of Neoral. Recently an Iranian drug company introduced this drug in the name of Iminoral which has been approved by different authorities in Iran and abroad, (including the Ministry of Health in Iran and also European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines Certification Unit and FDA(Department of Health and Human Services,Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)). The investigators study is the first clinical trial to compare the effect of Iminoral versus Neoral in preventing acute rejection in renal transplantation and also to compare the side effects of these two drugs.

To compare the efficacy and safety of Tacrolimus in combination with MMF and Steroids in two regimens of steroid in an adult kidney transplanted population.

The purposes of this study are to determine if the performance of a dialyzer depends on how tightly the hollow fiber membranes are packed in the housing of the dialyzer (the membrane packing density) and if that dependence is a function of the dialysate flow rate. The study will examine how efficiently three different sized molecules pass through a dialyzer membrane at different dialysate flow rates in dialyzers with different membrane packing densities. Transfer of urea, phosphorus and beta-2-microglobulin from blood to dialysate will be measured during clinical hemodialysis using four different dialyzers, each used at three different dialysate flow rates. The data derived from these measurements may provide insight into the importance of membrane packing density as a design parameter for hemodialyzers and if changing the membrane packing density might provide equivalent performance at a lower dialysate flow rate.

To determine the safety and efficacy of paricalcitol capsules as compared to placebo for treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism by decreasing serum intact parathyroid hormone levels in end stage renal disease subjects on peritoneal dialysis.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of peginesatide for the treatment of anemia in participants with chronic kidney disease who are on dialysis and are not taking any treatment to increase their red blood cell production.

This is a study to find out whether an exercise program during dialysis or a drug called nandrolone decanoate can increase muscle size and strenght in patients on dialysis.

A major component of this study is to test a novel application for a safe, non-pharmacologic, cost-effective intervention that is already in use in clinical practice - using cool dialysate during hemodialysis to help stabilize the sleep/wake cycle of chronic hemodialysis patients. We will also evaluate its effects on selected sleep-related physiologic, psychological, behavioral, and general health outcomes.