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The goal of this pilot study is to explore the utility of Fast Field-Cycling (FFC) imaging in monitoring kidney disease. The main questions it aims to answer are: - If FFC imaging can differentiate healthy kidney from kidney disease - If there is an association between FFC imaging and standard clinical tests Participants will provide one blood and on urine sample, and will have one FFC imaging scan.


Clinical Trial Description

The kidneys are vital organs responsible for clearance of toxins in the human body. The kidneys age over time and this ageing process is complex, involving changes both to their structure and function, and can be accelerated by disease processes. Without an invasive biopsy procedure, it is often difficult to distinguish between age-related damage from active disease, that could be modified with treatment. Even with a biopsy, certain diseases are often patchy and can be overlooked if missed by the biopsy sample procedure. Alternative imaging approaches have limited ability to differentiate between modifiable and non-modifiable disease processes. The investigators, based at the University of Aberdeen, have developed a unique magnetic imaging technology, Fast Field-Cycling (FFC) imaging. FFC derives from conventional MRI scanners but has the ability to change its magnetic field strength during a scan. This is equivalent to having many MRI scanners in one device and allows completely new analyses of the behaviour of tissue remodelling to pathological processes, from millimetres to nanometres. This information is invisible to standard MRI scanners and several pilot studies have shown great potential for FFC in cancer and stroke. This pilot study aims to investigate if FFC can detect changes in kidney microstructure. If FFC imaging shows that it is effective in monitoring kidney disease, then this would contribute to evidence from previous studies promoting the need to develop a new scanner that could be used clinically in the future. The study will include 20 patients with kidney damage (native or transplant kidneys) and 10 live donors (healthy volunteers). Each participant (patients and live donors) will have urine and blood tests, along with an FFC-MRI scan. Data analyses will be performed using the appropriate statistical methods depending on the distribution of the variables extracted. ;


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NCT number NCT05851417
Study type Interventional
Source University of Aberdeen
Contact Celia G Alvarez Campano, Dr
Phone +441224437828
Email celia.alvarezcampano@abdn.ac.uk
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 8, 2023
Completion date September 2023

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