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Administrative data

NCT number NCT04708743
Other study ID # CCH
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date May 19, 2019
Est. completion date April 20, 2021

Study information

Verified date January 2021
Source China Medical University, Taiwan
Contact Jia-Ming Chen, master
Phone +88647238595
Email 149353@gmail.com
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System (ATDS) was developed to capture tongue images and extract features reliably to assist the diagnosis of TCM practitioners.This project will employ the ATDS verified to extract the tongue features of patients with chronic kidney disease(CKD) including dialysis patients. A TCM indices derived through the non-intrusive tongue diagnosis procedure can provide valuable information for clinical doctors to analyze the current status of a patient and dynamically schedule a treatment plan, facilitating early detection and diagnosis of CKD.


Description:

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important global public health problem. According to related literatures, the prevalence of CKD is about 11% .CKD is a progressive disease. If it progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD), renal replacement therapy: dialysis and renal transplantation, is required to maintain life. The growing prevalence and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) raises concerns about our capacity to manage its economic burden to patients, caregivers, and society. The societal direct and indirect costs of CKD and end-stage renal disease are substantial and increase throughout disease progression. There is significant variability in the evidence about direct and indirect costs attributable to CKD and end-stage renal disease, with the most complete evidence concentrated on direct health care costs of patients with advanced to end-stage CKD. CKD, also called chronic kidney failure, is described as a sustained reduction in glomerular filtration rate or evidence of structural or functional kidney abnormalities.Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to all five stages of kidney damage, from very mild damage in stage 1 to complete kidney failure in stage 5. CKD symptoms include pain, itch(pruritus), peripheral numbness, sleep disturbances, depression, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. Factors that contribute to these symptoms include anaemia, uraemic toxins, reduced renal capacity, chronic disease-related inflammation, and psychological stress associated with long-term illness.If it progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD), renal replacement therapy, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation, is required to maintain life. Therefore, it is essential to find effective and conservative treatment methods to delay the progression of CKD. Diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is based on four procedures, observation, smelling or listening, inquiry, and palpation. Tongue diagnosis, serving as a vital non-invasive tool to provide useful clinical information, plays a pivotal role in TCM. The tongue is considered to reflect the physiological and pathological condition of the body, as well as the degree and progression of disease, through the meridians that connect the tongue to the internal organs.By observing tongue features, TCM practitioners can probe qi-blood, yin-yang disorders which are important in treatment selection and prognosis.Clinically, practitioners observe tongue characteristics, such as tongue color and shape, fur color and thickness, and the amount of saliva, to help deduce the primary pattern of a patient. However, tongue diagnosis is often biased by subjective judgment, which originates from personal experience, knowledge, diagnostic skills, thinking patterns, and color perception/interpretation.The inconsistency of subjective diagnosis can be improved by using the development of validated instruments. The automatic tongue diagnosis system (ATDS) has shown high consistency and can provide objective and reliable information and analysis of tongue features, facilitating doctors in making effective observations and diagnoses of specific diseases.Previous studies have been conducted on exploring the association between tongue characteristics and specific diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, breastcancer,type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, eczema, dysmenorrhea and functional dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux disease.However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has yet been performed on the comprehensive scrutiny of tongue features in patients with CKD using ATDS. The objectives of this protocol are to apply the noninvasive ATDS to evaluate tongue manifestations in patients with CKD, and to provide valuable information for clinical doctors, which can be used to facilitate the early detection and diagnosis of CKD, to analyze the current status of patients, and to dynamically schedule treatment plans.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 400
Est. completion date April 20, 2021
Est. primary completion date January 30, 2021
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 20 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - age over 20 years old; - CKD group:CKD stage 3-5 including dialysis patients - Healthy group: without any medical history Exclusion Criteria: - cancer; - acute infection; - unable to protrude the tongue stably; - risk of temporomandibular joint dislocation.

Study Design


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Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System
tongue image capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

Locations

Country Name City State
Taiwan School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Taichung

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
China Medical University, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

References & Publications (6)

Kim J, Son J, Jang S, Nam DH, Han G, Yeo I, Ko SJ, Park JW, Ryu B, Kim J. Availability of tongue diagnosis system for assessing tongue coating thickness in patients with functional dyspepsia. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:348272. doi: 10.1 — View Citation

Lee TC, Lo LC, Wu FC. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Metabolic Syndrome via TCM Pattern Differentiation: Tongue Diagnosis for Predictor. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016;2016:1971295. doi: 10.1155/2016/1971295. Epub 2016 May 25. — View Citation

Lo LC, Chen CY, Chiang JY, Cheng TL, Lin HJ, Chang HH. Tongue diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine for rheumatoid arthritis. Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2013 Aug 12;10(5):360-9. eCollection 2013. — View Citation

Lo LC, Chen YF, Chen WJ, Cheng TL, Chiang JY. The Study on the Agreement between Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012;2012:505063. doi: 10.1155/2012/505063. Epub 2012 Au — View Citation

Lo LC, Cheng TL, Chiang JY, Damdinsuren N. Breast cancer index: a perspective on tongue diagnosis in traditional chinese medicine. J Tradit Complement Med. 2013 Jul;3(3):194-203. doi: 10.4103/2225-4110.114901. — View Citation

Lo LC, Chiang JY, Cheng TL, Shieh PS. Visual agreement analyses of traditional chinese medicine: a multiple-dimensional scaling approach. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012;2012:516473. Epub 2012 Sep 17. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Tongue features capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System(ATDS) 5 mins
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