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Filter by:Hypertension is the most common complication in patients with diabetes nephropathy. Strengthening blood pressure and blood sugar control is the basic treatment for patients with diabetes nephropathy. Angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) are the first line drugs recommended in domestic and international guidelines for diabetes patients to control hypertension. As a new ARB drug, azilsartan has been found to have better antihypertensive effect than other ARB drugs. However, due to the limited sample size and study time, azilsartan has no significant advantage over other ARB drugs in terms of renal protection effect, and has not been systematically studied in diabetes nephropathy population. This study is intended to evaluate the effect of azilsartan on proteinuria and blood pressure improvement in patients with diabetes nephropathy and hypertension through clinical randomized controlled study, so as to accumulate evidence-based evidence of azilsartan in the comprehensive management of heart and kidney protection in this group of people, and promote the development of comprehensive treatment for patients with metabolic disease and renal injury combined with hypertension. This study will compare the advantages and disadvantages of azilsartan and classical ARB drug losartan potassium in terms of proteinuria, blood pressure control and renal function protection in patients with diabetes nephropathy and hypertension; We propose that the main indicator is the change of urinary albumin/creatinine ratio relative to the baseline, and the secondary indicator is the change of 24-hour urinary protein relative to the baseline; Change of blood pressure relative to baseline; Renal function, electrolyte and blood glucose.
The primary aim of this study is to determine the safety and mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibition in individuals on peritoneal dialysis (PD) with residual kidney function (RKF).
The purpose of this study is to find out if empagliflozin, a new diabetic medication that has been shown to be very effective in lowering the risk of heart failure, is safe and tolerated in dialysis patients. In the recent years, empagliflozin has become a major tool to prevent heart failure hospitalization and to reduce the risk for cardiovascular death in diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Although patients with severe chronic kidney disease and ESKD have very high risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death, they have been excluded from all of the previous studies. If this medication is found to be well tolerated and safe in dialysis patients through this study, future clinical studies can evaluate if this medication can also reduce the risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death in dialysis patients.
An epidemic of chronic kidney disease is occurring in laborers who undertake physical work outdoors in hot conditions. The reason for this is largely unknown, but may be related to kidney dysfunction caused by increases in body temperature and dehydration that elicit oxidative stress and inflammation in the renal tubules. The purpose of this study is to determine whether hydration status modifies the development of renal oxidative stress and inflammation.
Kidney biopsy (KB) is an invasive procedure that is very useful in diagnosing kidney disease in both the native kidney and the transplanted kidney. Patients undergo KB can feel anxiety and pain. Pain is considered one of the worst experiences for patients and anxiety affects the sympathetic nervous system, the endocrine system and the immune system. The aim of this preliminary study was to evaluate the influence of MTI as a complementary/nonpharmacological intervention on heart rate variability, anxiety and pain and promote more compliant behaviours during KB.
International, multicentre, randomized 1:1 controlled trial to prove the clinical and medico economic benefits of the medical device Predigraft, by showing that the use of Predigraft could improve patient's follow-up.
An epidemic of chronic kidney disease is occurring in laborers who undertake physical work outdoors in hot conditions. The reason for this is unknown, but may be related to kidney dysfunction caused by increases in body temperature and dehydration. The current heat stress recommendations for workers were not developed with regards for kidney health. The purpose of this study is to determine if the current recommendations protect against kidney dysfunction.
Studying the causal roles of components of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (including angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-(1-7)), angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), Ang II, and ACE), uric acid, and klotho in pediatric hypertension and related target organ injury, including in the heart, kidneys, vasculature, and brain. Recruiting children with a new hypertension diagnosis over a 2-year period from the Hypertension and Pediatric Nephrology Clinics affiliated with Brenner Children's Hospital at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital. Healthy control participants will be recruited from local general primary care practices. Collecting blood and urine samples to analyze components of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (Ang-(1-7), ACE2, Ang II, ACE), uric acid, and klotho, and measuring blood pressure, heart structure and function, autonomic function, vascular function, and kidney function at baseline, year 1, and year 2. Objectives are to investigate phenotypic and treatment response variability and to causally infer if Ang-(1-7), ACE2, Ang II, ACE, uric acid, and klotho contribute to target organ injury due to hypertension.
To investigate the effectiveness of percutaneous nephrostomy catheter placement versus retrograde double J catheter placement in patients with symptoms of obstructive kidney disease (with either infection and/or pain and/or kidney function deterioration) caused by urolithiasis.
The number of people with kidney disease is constantly rising and renal failure represents one of the major health care burdens globally. An accurate measurement of kidney function is urgently needed to better understand and treat loss of renal function. Kidneys have an intrinsic reserve capacity to respond to a higher work load by increasing filtration in their nephrons. The number of nephrons and their reserve capacity define how well kidneys can adapt to an increased demand and disease. The degree of renal reserve capacity becomes particularly important when the number of functioning nephrons is significantly reduced either due to surgical removal of one kidney as in living kidney donation or in tumor nephrectomy or due to progressive injury as in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). A reduced functional reserve likely reflects an impaired adaptive capacity and increased risk of accelerated loss of function in the remaining single kidney or in kidneys exposed to a disease. Despite the importance of accurately measuring baseline and reserve capacity renal function, due to the time- and laborintensive procedure, in clinical routine this testing is rarely done. Investigators aim to measure renal functional reserve (RFR) and loss of function in patients undergoing nephrectomy (living kidney donors and renal tumor patients) as well as in patients with ADPKD. The results should provide evidence whether renal functional reserve indeed predicts adaptive capacity and functional loss after removal of a healthy kidney (living donors), of a tumor kidney (cancer patients) or in progressive kidney disorders (ADPKD patients). Investigators are confident that the proposed project will enhance the understanding of progressive kidney disease and with this improve donor safety, planning of tumor nephrectomy, and prediction of renal functional loss as well as provide a strong argument that dynamic renal function testing, i.e. accurate measurement of baseline and reserve capacity, is necessary in certain disease entities.