Active clinical trials for "Kidney Failure, Chronic"

Sympathetic activation is a hallmark of end-stage renal disease and adversely affects cardiovascular prognosis. Hypertension is present in the vast majority of these patients and plays a key role in the progressive deterioration of renal function and in the exceedingly high rate of cardiovascular events. Selective catheter-based renal denervation has been shown to be safe and effective in attaining improved and sustained blood pressure control in patients with resistant hypertension and normal renal function. The investigators hypothesize that catheter-based renal denervation is a safe and effective intervention to achieve sustained reduction in sympathetic nerve activity, BP and target organ damage in hypertensive End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients, which will result in improved cardiovascular outcomes.

The immune system is the body's defense against infection and other disease. After transplantation, the body sees the new organ as "foreign" and tries to destroy or "reject" it. Immunosuppressive medications help to prevent the immune system from attacking a transplanted organ. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of two maintenance immunosuppressive regimens. Subjects who enroll in this study will be randomly selected to have tacrolimus and everolimus (group 1) or tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil (group 2) as their immunosuppression medication. This study will enroll adult patients who are scheduled to receive a kidney transplant. The study is designed to understand the mechanisms of Everolimus in regards to kidney function in transplant recipients. The investigators hypothesis is that decreased exposure to Tacrolimus to the immune system will then translate in better renal allograft function.

A long-term safety study of ferric citrate (KRX-0502) in renal failure patients who have completed study KRX-0502-304. Only patients who participated in the KRX-0502-304 trial may participate in this trial.

The investigators' study aims is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) with paclitaxel-coated balloon (PCB) at venous anastomotic stenosis of arteriovenous graft (AVG) in patients with hemodialysis

A study of the effects of empagliflozin, a SGLT-2 inhibitor, on endogenous glucose production and plasma glucagon levels in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacodynamics (PD) of MK-2060 after intravenous (IV) administration of single and multiple doses in older adult participants with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety of two different doses of a drug called BAY1213790 and how well it is tolerated in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing hemodialysis (HD). Approximately 40, with up to 60 study patients will take part in the study.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most frequent cause of death in patients (ptt.) with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Compared to the general population death due to CVD is 10-20 times higher in CKD ptt. being treated with hemodialysis. Vascular calcification and hence arterial stiffness is of great importance for the high incidence of CVD. CKD ptt. in dialysis treatment also have a 3 times higher risk of bone fractures. Both vertebral and other fractures of low energy are associated with a high mortality. Matrix Gla Protein (MGP) is an important inhibitor of vascular calcification and Osteocalcin (OC) is an important regulator of bone metabolism. The function of both MGP and OC depend on vitamin K. Vitamin K is supplied with food. The content is low in food recommended to CKD ptt. which is reflected in very low concentrations of vitamin K in their blood samples. A correlation between vitamin K level, incidence of vascular calcification and bone density has been proven; yet there are no trials elucidating the clinical effect of vitamin K on vascular calcification or bone strength. The investigators will conduct a randomized placebo controlled trial examining the clinical effects of vitamin K2 on vascular calcification and bone mineralization in order to prevent and treat CVD and bone disease in CKD ptt. Primary study endpoints: Changes in arterial stiffness assessed by pulse wave examination Changes in bone mineral density (BMD) in distal radius assessed by DXA-scans. Secondary study endpoints: Changes in coronary artery and valvular calcification assessed by heart-CT-scans, blood pressure, body composition, total and regional BMD, lateral column/aortic calcification score as well as a panel of correlating blood tests.

This multi-center, open-label, randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the efficacy of hemoperfusion (HP) combined with hemodialysis (HD) by evaluating all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

The purpose of this research study is to find out how well ixazomib (the study drug) works to desensitize highly sensitized kidney transplant recipients.