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Filter by:The study is designed to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability, immunogenicity and pharmacogenetics of a single dose of serelaxin/RLX030 in patients with severe renal impairment and end-stage-renal-disease (ESRD) compared to healthy volunteers.
This is a post-authorisation safety study to assess the incidence and severity of all pre-defined cardiovascular events in patients treated with DYNEPO, as well as to detect & describe less common adverse drug reactions, and to summarise DYNEPO drug utilisation.
The purposes are 1. to measure the effect of dialysis with glucose on blood pressure, pulse rate, plasma concentration of glucose, plasma concentrations of glucagon, growth hormone, renin, angiotensin II, endothelin and body temperature, and 2. to analysis the relationship between changes in blood pressure on the one hand and changes in vasoactive hormones on the other
The purposes are 1. to measure the effect of dialysis with glucose in dialysis water on blood pressure, pulse rate, plasma concentration of glucose, plasma concentrations og insulin, glucagon, growth hormone, renin, angiotensin II, endothelin and body temperature, and 2. to analyse the relationship between the changes in blood pressure and changes in vasoactive hormones
The purpose is to measure the effect of glucose in the dialysis water on blood pressure, pulse rate, and plasma glucose with and without body temperature control
The purpose of this study is to show that giving PROCRIT (Epoetin alfa) every 2 weeks to increase the hemoglobin (Hb) level and then to adjust the PROCRIT (Epoetin alfa) dose every 4 weeks (Q4W) to maintain Hb levels, is safe and effective in patients with anemia from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), not on dialysis, who reside in long-term care facilities. In this study the frequency of PROCRIT (Epoetin alfa) dosing is under investigation.
Comparison of the efficacy of dialysis by conventional dialysis versus Prometheus artificial hepatic system
The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether intravenous infusion of a lipid emulsion with a high content of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids can improve heart rate variability and ventricular repolarization and reduce ventricular arrhythmias in hemodialysis patients.
The aim of this randomized prospective study in renal transplant recipients is to investigate immunological short and long-term effects of an IVIG induction therapy. Furthermore clinical endpoints (patient and graft survival, incidence of acute and chronic rejection, infectious diseases and graft function) up to three years posttransplant will be analyzed.
Chronic transplant rejection remains the main cause of late kidney graft loss. We showed previously that patients with pretransplant CD4 helper defects and low in-vitro IL-10 responses demonstrated an extremely low risk of acute rejection and a significantly better 1- and 3-year graft function whereas pretransplant Th1 responses were not predictive (Weimer R et al. 1996 and 1998). In liver transplant recipients, we found CD4 helper function and in-vitro IL-10 responses significantly decreased compared to CsA-treated patients (Zipperle et al. 1997). If the same effect will be demonstrated in renal transplant recipients, Tacrolimus (Tacr) treatment might result in enhanced graft survival compared to CsA, when CD4 helper function and in-vitro IL-10 responses of the individual patient are elevated. Other studies of our group suggest a beneficial role of enhanced T-suppressor activity and of an IL-6 independent B cell/monocyte defect in the maintenance of long-term stable graft function, whereas enhanced monokine secretion (TNF-a, GM-CSF, IL-6) was found in chronic rejection (Weimer et al. 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998). In the current randomized prospective study we will analyze the impact of CsA versus Tacr and of MMF versus azathioprine on Th1, Th2 and monokine responses and their predictive value regarding occurrence of acute and chronic rejection. With a proposed follow-up of 5 years this study might enable a patient-tailored immunosuppressive therapy resulting in prolonged graft survival.