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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to assess if subjects with hyperparathyroidism with normal serum calcium levels have different responses in the calcium regulating hormonal handling compared to a) patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and high serum calcium levels; b) healthy subjects. The differences will be evaluated with oral peptones load and subsequent blood samples collected every 15 minutes for two hours. Ionized calcium, phosphate, gastrin and PTH levels will be evaluated.
Because of its high sun exposure, Israel was traditionally supposed to be protected from vitamin D deficiency, and the country food products hardly contain vitamin D supplements. However the Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox population, which constitutes a significant fraction of the city population, is at risk of developing vitamin D deficiency due to low sun exposure, as consequence of its dressing code covering most of the body and very limited time of outside activities. The investigators aim is to check whether vitamin D deficiency is found more frequently in the ultra-Orthodox male population in comparison to a non-ultra-Orthodox male population, and to study its eventual consequences. Correlation between vitamin D levels and PTH levels will be examined, according to age and to creatinine levels. Bone mineral density (BMD) will be evaluated in 2 selected subgroups of subjects (with lowest and highest vitamin D levels), and re-evaluated after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation in vitamin D-deficient subjects. An increase in BMD within 6 months would suggest osteomalacia as the main cause of low BMD in these subjects.
FGF-23 is a newly described protein that is an important regulator of phosphorus in the body. This protein increases in people with kidney disease and people who need dialysis have very high levels of FGF-23 in the blood. However, although some studies have indicated that FGF-23 levels go up with increased intake of phosphorus, no one knows if FGF-23 levels can be lowered in patients with kidney disease by preventing them from absorbing phosphorus from food. This study is designed to see what happens to levels of FGF-23 in the blood when patients with chronic kidney disease take medications to prevent phosphorus absorption. Since high levels of FGF-23 have been linked with increased rates of death in patients with advanced kidney disease, controlling the levels may, in the future, be a way to decrease heart disease in patients with kidney disease.
The MBD-5D is a prospective observational study with a case-cohort and a cohort design. Eligible patients are receiving hemodialysis and have secondary hyperparathyroidism. The study's three goals are (1) to record the patients' characteristics, and variation in the patterns of their treatment; (2) to analyze factors associated with variation in those medical practice patterns; and (3) to identify practice patterns and other factors that affect hospitalization, mortality, and other patient-level outcomes.
This study is a exploratory comparison of the efficacy and safety of paricalcitol injection with maxacalcitol injection in chronic kidney disease participants receiving hemodialysis with secondary hyperparathyroidism.
A randomised double blind clinical trial, accepted by the Medical Products Agency and registered in the European Clinical Trials Database. Aims to evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a pHPT population in relation to gender and age, the correlation between vitamin D status, pre- and postoperative parathyroid hormone level and bone density and the correlation between vitamin D status, metabolic, cardiovascular risk factors and QoL aspects before and after parathyroid adenomectomy.
Evaluates the effectiveness of on-label Paricalcitol versus Cinacalcet with Low-Dose Vitamin D.
This study is designed to demonstrate the efficacy and to assess the safety of cinacalcet for the reduction of hypercalcemia in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism for whom parathyroidectomy is indicated on the basis of an elevated corrected total serum calcium, but who are unable to undergo parathyroidectomy.
Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is common in people with a kidney transplant. Patients with HPT often have high parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and may have large parathyroid glands in the neck. Patients with HPT can develop bone disease (osteodystrophy). This bone disease can cause bone pain, fractures, and poor formation of red blood cells. Other problems from HPT may include increases in blood levels of calcium (hypercalcemia) and low blood levels of phosphorus (hypophosphatemia). The high calcium levels may cause calcium to deposit in body tissues. Calcium deposits can cause arthritis (joint pain and swelling), muscle inflammation, itching, gangrene (death of soft tissue), heart and lung problems or kidney transplant dysfunction (worsening of kidney transplant function). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of cinacalcet (Sensipar/Mimpara) on high calcium levels in the blood in patients with HPT after a kidney transplant.
This is an open label, single center, randomized, active comparator controlled study, comparing the effects of vitamin D replacement using oral ergocalciferol versus paricalcitol on parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels in patients with stage 3 and 4 CKD and vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency. The purpose of this study is to determine which of these two approaches is more successful.