Safety and Efficacy Study of the Effect of Etanercept in Hemodialysis Patients

End Stage Renal Disease Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effect of Etanercept in Suppression of the Systemic Inflammatory Response in Hemodialysis Patients

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

Etanercept is a novel anti-inflammatory agent currently used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We are examining whether Etanercept is effective in improving the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients as a consequence of its ability to decrease inflammation.

Clinical Trial Description

Hemodialysis patients with end stage renal disease have a high mortality rate. In individual patients, mortality is associated with a low serum albumin concentration, a marker of poor nutritional status, and with elevated C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation. Since efforts to improve nutrition through dietary intake have not been successful, inflammation is thought to play a key role in determining nutritional status. Recently, it has been shown that malnutrition, inflammation, and atherosclerosis are closely related in patients with chronic renal failure. It is our hypothesis that suppression of the cycle of inflammation, malnutrition, and vascular injury caused by atherosclerosis will improve survival in dialysis patients. This study is designed to examine whether suppression of the inflammatory response can be accomplished safely with Etanercept and to determine if this suppression will improve nutritional status and clinical outcome in hemodialysis patients with poor nutritional status and evidence of inflammation. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• End Stage Renal Disease
• Kidney Failure, Chronic

• NCT number: NCT00293202
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Kaysen, George A., M.D., Ph.D.
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: January 2005
• Completion date: June 2010