Active clinical trials for "Renal Insufficiency"

Study of the kinetics of uremic toxins in the ICU patients with acute renal failure, in order to optimize the dialysis dose: patients with lactate acidosis. The sampling of blood and dialysate will be done during dialysis with different durations (4, 6 and 8 h)

Study of the kinetics of uremic toxins in the ICU patients with acute renal failure, in order to optimize the dialysis dose: patients after cardiac surgery.The sampling of blood and dialysate will be done during dialyses with different durations (4, 6 and 8h)

Cardiovascular related disease is the main cause of death in patients with kidney disease, and "oxidative stress" is thought to be a major contributor by promoting thickening of the heart muscle and stiffening of the arteries. Allopurinol, a drug used safely in the treatment of gout for many years, has been found to dramatically reduce "oxidative stress". It is therefore hoped that it also reduce the thickened heart muscle and stiffened arteries. If it did, it is likely to reduce the appallingly high cardiac death rate in this group of kidney disease patients.

Patients with reduced kidney function have a higher risk of heart disease and death. Studies have shown that blood vessels in patients with hypertension change with a decrease of lumen size and growth of the vessel wall. By treating patients with antihypertensive certain medication vessel lumen and walls normalize. Treating hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease slows the progression of kidney function loss. The aim is to compare different degrees of antihypertensive medication in patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension will slow the progression of kidney loss.

The purpose of this study was to determine the dose ranges of peginesatide administered intravenously or subcutaneously that maintained hemoglobin in participants on dialysis whose hemoglobin values were stable on epoetin (alfa or beta).

The researchers investigated the influence of a prostacyclin analogue (PGIA) versus unfractionated heparin (UFH) on ex vivo platelet function, during continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration.

The goal of the present study is the comparison of different dialysis strategies in critically ill patients with acute renal failure on the intensive care unit. Patients are treated with either continuous dialysis or hemofiltration. Outcome measures are death, restitution of renal function, days on ICU, hemodynamic stability, dialysis efficiency.

AKI is a rapid and usually reversible impairment of kidney function that is life-threatening in the short term well described by the "Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes - KDIGO" classification of 2012. Whatever etiology of acute renal failure, drug iatrogeny still has its place. Hospital data from the information systems medicalization program (PMSI) can be used for epidemiological research. No study has yet been performed on these data to assess drug-related AKI. However, it should be remembered that these databases were not originally designed for research purposes but for reimbursement of care. Therefore, before conducting a large-scale study, it remains important to determine the validity and representativeness of the codes used for coding the studied events. The objective of this project is therefore to validate the use of hospital coding to identify AKI.

The aim of this study is to test if alkali treatment will preserve kidney graft function and diminish the progression of chronic kidney disease in renal transplant patients. Additionally the underlying mechanisms of nephrotoxicity of metabolic acidosis will be investigated in this cohort. This study is a multi-center, prospective, randomized, single-blind (patient), placebo-controlled interventional trial to test the superiority of alkali treatment in comparison to placebo on preservation of kidney function in 300 kidney transplant recipients. The duration of the study will be 2 years for the individual participant. The patients will be randomized into 2 arms: intervention arm (sodium hydrogen carbonate, product: Nephrotrans®) and placebo arm (placebo comparator). Several studies in CKD (chronic kidney disease) patients have shown that alkali therapy slows progression of CKD.

This is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether a switch to intravenous antibiotics with adjunctive lavage can improve the outcome of severe peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis.