Active clinical trials for "Renal Insufficiency"

The investigators propose a three-arm, pragmatic, cluster-randomized clinical trial based in primary care. Participating Primary Care Providers (PCPs) will be randomized to usual care or one of two intervention arms. The first intervention will evaluate the efficacy of an automated CDSS that utilizes the electronic health record (EHR) to facilitate triple marker test ordering, guideline implementation and BP management, compared with usual care, among patients with previous documentation of eGFRcreat <60 ml/min/1.73m2. The second intervention goes a step further, and will evaluate whether a CDSS plus a follow-up telephone call from a pharmacist (CDSS PLUS) can improve BP management and patient CKD and NSAID toxicity knowledge among the patients with CKD, compared with CDSS alone. The primary clinical outcome is BP level, with secondary outcomes related to processes of care and patient knowledge.

This pilot study will be a clinical trial to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a kidney transplant (KT) prehabilitation intervention in adults with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who are within 3-6 months of transplantation.

As iodinate contrast media (CM) has been widely used in current medical practice, contrast induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) has been an important issue. Previously, many guidelines suggested prophylaxis protocol using 0.9% saline when CM is administrated to high risk patients. However, recent studies showed that 0.9% saline might induce metabolic acidosis due to its supra-physiologic chloride component, and therefore renal vasoconstriction. In spite of protective effect by volume expansion with saline infusion, this renal vasoconstriction might have conflicting effect on renal function, as hypoxic injury is suspected to be the main cause of CI-AKI. In contrast to 0.9% saline, balanced salt solution has physiologic level of chloride and neutral pH. Also, recent studies proved preventive effect of balanced salt solution for AKI in several clinical settings. Hence, the investigators planned a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing 0.9% saline and balanced salt solution to prevent CI-AKI.

The objectives of this study are: Evaluation of ultra-low iodine load CTA protocols of the aorta and lower extremities. To investigate whether dual-layer in combination with with virtual monoenergetic imaging (VMI) allows for reduction of contrast medium (CM) in CTA of the aorta and lower limbs i with sustained objective and subjective image quality parameters.

During the 2013-2014 influenza season, CKD patients undergoing HD participated in the study. The patients were randomized into two groups (MF59-adjuvanted vaccine group or non-adjuvanted vaccine group) and were immunized with the respective vaccine. Sera were collected prior to vaccination and at 1and 6 months post vaccination. Levels of hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies were measured.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the percentage of participants with sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the actual end of study treatment (SVR12)

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether lower limb ischaemic preconditioning can improve renal function in patients undergoing living donor kidney transplantation

This project seeks to improve the health of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by developing and testing an electronic health intervention (that will combine secure e--mail, smartphone text message, and online video materials) to promote patient use of effective medications. The information we collect on the electronic health intervention will guide future research, including a larger trial and other studies among related patient groups (e.g., racial minorities) and diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes mellitus). The project has the potential to improve health outcomes for the millions of patients with CKD who are not yet receiving effective medications.

The purpose of the study is to provide pertinent information to enable decisions regarding the developability of LHW090 for use in patients with chronic renal insufficiency, including a comparison of the potential risk-benefit ratio of several doses of the study drug to enable optimal doses to be tested in later studies.

The propose of study is to study if an informative intervention and a structured follow-up carried out in health centres of primary care in patients with chronic kidney failure, stage 3, is more effective than the current follow-up in slowing the disease progression measured by the glomerular filtration rate.