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Filter by:This observational trial will examine the efficacy and safety of Mircera for renal anemia in participants with stage III-IV CKD in daily clinical practice. Mircera will be prescribed by treating physician and followed for approximately 36 months.
There is a pressing need to find effective strategies for the prevention of contrast induced nephropathy in patients with advanced renal dysfunction. The current study was designed to assess the efficacy of a new protocol for preventing contrast induced nephropathy in patients with advanced renal dysfunction undergoing coronary interventions
Chronic kidney disease, which affects an estimated 300,000 people in Ireland and over 50 million people in the developed world, is responsible for a considerable burden of premature mortality and morbidity. All patients with chronic kidney disease are recommended low salt diets, i.e. less than a teaspoon of salt per day (which is <5-6g of salt, which contains <2-2.3g of sodium). The average intake in the general population is double the recommended intake, between 1-2 teaspoons per day, which is considered 'moderate' intake. In patients with hypertension, reducing from moderate (average) to low intake is associated with a small reduction in blood pressure. However, achieving this low target salt intake is difficult, and can have a negative knock-on effect on other healthy dietary factors and kidney hormones. In addition, there is no convincing research to show that patients with chronic kidney disease and normal blood pressure benefit from low salt intake. In fact, the small amount of research that does exist shows that the change in kidney function is the same in people who consume low salt diets (<1 teaspoon) and moderate (1-2 teaspoons=average intake) salt diets. Moreover, there are some small studies that report that low-salt diets may increase the risk of death due to heart disease. Given that all patients with chronic kidney impairment are recommended a low-salt diet, it is important that we confirm that this recommendation truly benefits patients. In this randomized controlled trial, we hope to determine whether recommending a low salt intake, compared to average/moderate intake, is associated with a slower rate of decline in kidney function in patients with chronic kidney impairment. The results of this study will provide information to guide future research that will have critical implications for management of patients with chronic kidney disease.
The overarching goal of the project is to improve the process and experience of surrogate decision-making by family caregivers. Since feeling unprepared to make surrogate decisions is a major contributor to caregiver stress, the primary outcome is caregiver self-efficacy --i.e., caregivers' assessment of how well prepared they feel to serve effectively as a surrogate decision-maker. Through follow-on Renewal funding, we are now also qualitatively examining family caregivers' experience with surrogate decision-making.
There are no studies in the literature evaluating the vibration of the whole body in patients with chronic renal failure. The study aims to assess the effectiveness of whole body vibration in patients with renal disease in the final phase in the interdialytic period. It will be a randomized, triple-blind, controlled and randomized. The pilot study will be 20 individuals initially. In intervention patients will be randomly divided into two groups: sham platform and platform. As a result it is expected that the training of whole body vibration may promote patient compliance, since it requires less physical effort for implementation and greater comfort in the application, thus allowing the sedentary and / or less active patients can benefit by to minimize the harmful effects of physical inactivity associated with pre-existing kidney problems.
Talking About Live Kidney Donation Support (TALKS) will study the effectiveness of education, behavior, and financial support interventions to improve consideration of live kidney transplantation/live kidney donation among African Americans on the deceased kidney waiting list. We hypothesize that interventions to help potential kidney transplant recipients and their potential donors overcome barriers to live donor kidney transplant (including family discussions, financial, or logistical barriers) could improve potential recipients' receipt of live kidney transplants. The main outcomes of TALKS will include whether potential recipients (1) have potential live donors call into the transplant center on their behalf; (2) have potential donors evaluated for transplant; or (3) receive a live donor kidney transplant.
This is a clincial validation study of a dried blood spot (DBS) method for the analysis of immunosuppressive and antifungal agents currently subject of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in a pediatric population. The primary goal is to clinically validate a finger prick DBS method compared to conventional venous sampling for the analysis of 5 immunosuppressive and 4 azole antifungal drugs in the pediatric population. Secondairy goals include feasibility of the finger prick DBS method in the target population, to design an inventory of costs that will be incurred in future health-economic analyses and to construct a population PK model based on the available data collected for the primariy goal.
Diagnosis of patients with renal insufficiency and recommendations for medical treatment of patients who suffer from chronic renal failure are based on the different stages of Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR). Many formulas exist to assess GFR. However these formulas are unreliable in many clinical situations (old people, obese patients…). Methods for measuring GFR using exogenous tracers exist: Inulin and 51Cr-EDTA are historical reference tracers. Renal clearance of Inulin is the gold standard. However, using these methods is restricted to specialized services because it is long and expensive. There is no medical data for the use of Calcium edetate de sodium as a tracer to assess GFR. Calcium edetate de sodium is a treatment for lead intoxication. The extension of use as a tracer comes from its exclusive elimination by glomerular filtration. Plasma and renal clearance of Calcium edetate de sodium and Inulin will be measured for every included patient during a hospital day care (First visit V1). For transplanted patients, plasma clearance of Calcium edetate de sodium will be repeated within one week (more or less 48hours) during annual medical check-up of renal transplantation (Second visit V2).
This national study was a post-marketing surveillance study conducted in Korea from 29 August 2008 to 28 August 2012 to meet local regulatory requirements for Mircera (monopegylated-epoetin beta). Prospective patient-based data collection was evaluated for safety/risk assessments and effectiveness. No specific study-related procedures are required. Patients were to be followed up as long as possible at the physician's discretion.
Contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) has been recognized as the third most common cause of hospital acquired AKI, after hypotension-associated hypo-perfusion and post-operative AKI. The development of CI-AKI after cardiac catheterization is associated with a significant increase in both short-term and long-term mortality and morbidities, as well as an increase in length of stay and cost. The only marker of renal function that has predictive ability is creatinine and it has significant limitations in identifying patients who will develop AKI. Therefore, a diagnostic test for predicting CI-AKI risk would have widespread clinical utility. The primary purpose of this study is to measure the association between baseline expression of senescence markers in blood using SenesceTest and the occurrence of CI-AKI post cardiac catheterization.