Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

End stage renal disease (ESRD) is related with increased cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Hypertension (HT) is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disorder among hemodialysis (HD) patients. The aim of this study going to investigate the effectivity of low-sodium dialysate on the systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) levels detected by ABPM and interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) in patients undergoing sustained hemodialysis treatment. Methods: The study will be included 46 patients who had creatinine clearance levels less than 10 ml/min/1.73 m2 and had been on chronic HD treatment for at least one year. After the enrollment stage, the patients will be allocated low-sodium dialysate or standard-sodium dialysate for six months via computer-generated randomization.

Compared to hemodialysis, patients on peritoneal dialysis live longer and healthier, have a higher quality of life and cost approximately $40,000 less to the healthcare system per patient per year. However, only 18% of dialysis patients in Canada currently use peritoneal dialysis because patients often feel isolated from the healthcare team and lack the confidence to manage treatments by themselves. This study will assess a telehome monitoring system (eQ Connect™), allowing for up-to-date data transmission and digital interaction between the patients at home and their healthcare team. From the patients' perspective, this technology is an easier way to communicate with their healthcare providers, track their treatment and supplies, and receive training and support. From the providers' perspective, eQ Connect™ delivers up-to-date patient data and provides an efficient way to keep track of the patients' progress. This intervention has the potential to improve the patients' clinical outcomes, quality of life, reduce the costs of dialysis to the healthcare system and ultimately empower patients to start and stay on peritoneal dialysis.

Intravenous iron therapy is common and effective, with few side effects. Two formulations are used, venofer or iron sucrose and ferrlecit, or ferric gluconate. The association between intravenous iron use and decrease in serum phosphorus and vitamin D levels, with increased fractional excretion of phosphorus, has been observed with older iron preparations, such as saccharated ferric oxide. However, hypophosphatemia and osteomalacia have been reported with iron carboxymaltose, a newer iron formulation. There is no information in the literature about phosphorus and vitamin D levels after treatment with venofer or ferrlecit. We intend to check phosphorus and vitamin D serum levels in our patients prior to and after treatment with these iron formulations.

The aim of this study is to observe the effect of adapted APD (aAPD) on maintenance and/or improvement of the hydration status of more than 250 PD patients, and to observe the tolerability of the therapy over a long period.

The study is designed to collect data from a ultrasound device being used to evaluate feasibility of next generation algorithms for ultrasound data processing and does not test any health outcome.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a telemedicine follow-up visit at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute is a feasible and acceptable alternative to a traditional in-center follow-up visit.

End-stage renal disease is associated with hyperphosphatemia due to a decrease of renal phosphate excretion. This hyperphosphatemia is associated with an increase of cardiovascular risk and mortality. Thus, three therapeutic options have been developed: dietary restriction, administration of phosphate binders and phosphorus clearance by hemodialysis (HD). During a standard HD session, around 600 to 700mg phosphate is removed from the plasma, whereas it contains only 90 mg inorganic phosphate (Pi); 85% of phosphate is stored in bones and teeth in hydroxyapatite form, 14% is stored in the intracellular space (90% organic phosphate and 10% Pi), and 1% remains in the extracellular space. Currently, the source of Pi cleared during HD remains to be determined. Phosphorus (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy allows reliable, dynamic and non-invasive measurements of phosphate intracellular concentration. The investigator's team recently published data obtained in anephric pigs, suggesting that phosphate intracellular concentration increases during a HD session. In parallel, we showed that ATP intracellular concentration decreased. These results suggest that the source of Pi cleared during HD could be located inside the cell. In this study, investigators will measure intracellular phosphate and ATP concentrations and intracellular potential of hydrogen (pH) evolution during hemodialysis in 12 patients suffering from end-stage renal disease by MR spectroscopy. If these results were confirmed in humans, it could explain, at least in part, HD intolerance in some patients and would lead to modify therapeutic approaches of hyperphosphatemia, for example, by modifying HD sessions time.

End-stage renal disease represents a major problem for public health, and is a severe disease affecting hundreds of millions of people in the world and increasing rapidly. It brings about complex implications to social and economic structures of every nation. Providing renal replacement therapy including , peritoneal dialysis and renal transplants for ESRD patients are resource intensive. Possible options have been proposed to ease the burden include early medical intervention to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease in high-risk patients, promotion of renal transplantation, and use of the most cost-effective dialysis therapy without compromising outcome. In Malaysia, despite growing financial pressure in health care system, cost-effectiveness studies of RRT modalities are scarce.The prevalence of ESRD patients on dialysis are approximately 34, 767 as of 2014 and expected to rise significantly in the foreseeable future. Thus, the sustainability of dialysis therapy is uncertain. This study aimed to assess the cost utility of hemodialysis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis treatment from Malaysia Ministry of Health perspective. One hundred and eighty patients will be recruited from five state hospitals via National Renal Registry. Patients' resource utilization including overhead costs, medications, dialysis consumables and hospitalizations will be recorded using specially designed case report form. Patients' quality of life will be assessed using validated EQ-5D-3L questionnaire. Survival analysis will be conducted based on NRR data. Next, a hypothetical cohort Markov model will be constructed to assess the cost utility of HD and CAPD using varying levels of CAPD use versus current practice. The data collection period is from 1st October 2016 to 30th September 2017. Incremental cost effectiveness ratio is the primary outcome of this study.

To explore whether it is feasible to recruit and retain haemodialysis patients into a randomised controlled trial of online cognitive-behavioural therapy to manage distress

The study is being conducted to determine if the blood test Brain Natriuretic Protein (BNP) can demonstrate the presence of extra fluid in patients with chronic kidney disease treated by hemodialysis. It will also try to determine the blood test Procalcitonin (PCT) can help identify the cause of the fever, specifically if a fever is caused by a bacterial infection. It will also evaluate whether new blood tests in the future (such as DNA, RNA, metabolite, and protein based tests) can be developed to help predict other complications in patients with chronic kidney disease treated by hemodialysis.