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Filter by: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.
This observational study will collect blood and urine and clinical information from individuals with early-stages of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), their unaffected siblings and normal volunteers to create a biobank, also called a biorepository. The long-term goal is to develop new knowledge on biological markers or biomarkers that indicate changes in the disease progression. An understanding of biomarkers for early renal cyst growth will benefit PKD patients as new therapies are being developed and tested.
This study is part of the Health Canada approval requirement for JINARC™ (tolvaptan) and is an observational, non-interventional study (NIS) describing the impact of tolvaptan on ADPKD-related burden of illness as measured with a set of Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) Questionnaires. The study is also describing the time to renal replacement therapy (RRT), such as dialysis and transplantation, and the long-term mortality rate and causes (i.e. renal and hepatic), in ADPKD patients treated with JINARC™ (tolvaptan)
Genkyst is a regional cohort involving up to nephrologists working in private and public nephrology centers in the West of France. It registers clinical and molecular genetic data of all consenting patients with ADPKD from this area.
The German ADPKD Tolvaptan Treatment Registry is a prospective, observational, multicentric study of patients suffering from ADPKD that are considered for tolvaptan treatment. All ADPKD patients that are evaluated for treatment indication, or that are planned to be treated with tolvaptan, or that are already treated with tolvaptan are eligible. This registry is designed to provide "real-world" data on treatment management of patients with ADPKD.
EuroCYST initiative aims to build a large, well-characterized cohort of Autosomal Dominant polyCYSTic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) subjects who are followed in a longitudinal observational cohort study has the potential to identify progression factors and biomarkers, and to assess disease stage specific mortality, morbidity and health care costs.
Triptolide was shown in experimental studies to inhibit the cyst formation and growth in ADPKD models, while triptolide-containing formulation was revealed to potentially slow the disease progression in several proteinuric ADPKD patients in our clinical practice. It remains to be shown the effect of triptolide-containing formulation on total kidney volume (TKV) enlargement and renal function protection in ADPKD patients.
In patients with polycystic kidney disease, pain may be resistant to drug therapy and may reduce quality of life. This study investigate the effect of renal denervation on this pain.
Sirolimus (SIR) has lead to a reduction of overall kidney size, a decrease in cyst density and general tubular cell proliferation in animal models, and to a reduction of the increase in creatinine and blood urea nitrogen by 34 and 39 percent respectively, as well as a reduction of cyst proliferation, expressed by a 30 percent reduction of overall kidney enlargement, a reduction in general cyst volume, and a reduction of the cyst volume density in the renal cortex in humans. However, despite promising data from animal- and in vivo studies, most mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor (mTOR-I) studies in patients with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) produced only subtle if any clinically relevant effects on cyst growth and the preservation of renal function. In this study we will investigate if pulsed administration of SIR in a fixed weekly oral dose of 3 mg over 24 months compared to placebo significantly reduces cyst growth and preserves excretory renal function in patients with ADPKD and an estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) rate below 60 mL/min per 1.73m2.
A randomized, open-label single-center study investigates the efficacy and safety of bilateral renal artery sympathetic denervation by catheter-based radiofrequency ablation on blood pressure and disease progression control in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease(ADPKD). The total number of study subjects will be 100. All of them have diagnosed with ADPKD and hypertension. Patients will be randomized 1:1 (50 with radiofrequency ablation(RFA), 50 only with drugs). Change in average office-based measurements of systolic blood pressure(SBP), average 24-hour systolic blood pressure by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) , incidence of office systolic blood pressure reductions of ≥10, ≥15 and ≥20 mm Hg , office diastolic blood pressure (DBP), number and dosage of blood pressure tablets, total kidney volume (TKV), total cyst volume (TCV), pain related to cystic kidneys and renal function, will be assessed at 12 months of follow-up. The safety variables will be assessed at every visit of follow-up.