View clinical trials related to Chronic Renal Disease.
Filter by:The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety and Immunosuppressant Therapy Barrier Scale (ITBS) of once daily immunosuppressant maintenance therapy in patients who had kidney transplantations earlier.
To demonstrate that cyclosporine-sparing immunosuppressions with the standard dose of Enteric-Coated Mycophenolate Sodium would preserve renal graft function after transplantation without an increase of incidences of adverse events, such as biopsy confirmed acute rejection, local or systemic infections, and bone marrow suppression.
Study investigating the safety and efficacy of the citrate dialysis solution compared to standard acetate dialysis solution. Use of citrate dialysis solution is not associated with a clinically relevant development of adverse events. It is hypothesized that citrate dialysate may provide a local anticoagulation effect in the dialyser improving removal of uremic toxins.
The investigators are planning to study the serum level of Urotensin II in chronic kidney disease patients, kidney transplants, and healthy controls.
The purpose of this study is to look at how the dose of dialysis is affected by the rate at which dialysate flows through the dialyzer. The dose of dialysis (Kt/V) will be determined by measuring blood levels of urea at the beginning and end of dialysis at two different dialysate flow rates.
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.
The purpose of this study is to look at lipid profiles of plasma and RBC and amino acid profiles in plasma to determine if they are associated with allograft rejection, calcineurin inhibitor toxicity or new onset diabetes mellitus in renal transplant patients receiving dietary supplements with arginine and omega-3 fatty acids.