RandomizEd ClinicAL triaL on the Efficacy and saFety of Incremental Hemodialysis (REAL-LIFE)
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- End date
- Nov 30, 2024
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- participants needed
- 116
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- sponsor
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari
Summary
Background: The thrice-weekly hemodialysis (HD) regimen is widely accepted as a standard prescription. The concept of incremental dialysis has been established as a possible alternative for patients with preserved diuresis and end-stage renal failure in need of HD. The main problems related to prescription of incremental HD are an arbitrary use of infrequent regimens and the lack of clear standards for incorporating residual kidney function (RKF) in the assessment of HD dose. Several models have been proposed for prescription of incremental dialysis. The latest, the variable target model (VTM), gives more clinical weight to the RKF and allows less frequent HD treatments at lower RKF. Despite increasing evidence derived from observational studies to support the use of incremental HD, RCTs are lacking and, therefore, urgently needed.
Methods/Design:
The Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation of the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico, Bari, Italy and the EUDIAL Working Group of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) are starting a randomized clinical trial (RCT) in incident HD patients, whose name is "REAL LIFE", by using the acronym of its whole definition: RandomizEd clinicAL triaL on the effIcacy and saFety of incremental haEmodialysis. REAL LIFE is a pragmatic, prospective, multicentre, open label RCT, investigator-initiated, comparing the intervention arm (incremental HD) with the control arm (standard 3HD/wk). The trial, originally conceived by experts at the Division of Nephrology of the Miulli General Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy, consists in starting the HD treatment adopting the new incremental approach guided by the VTM. The primary outcome is the survival of kidney function, with the event defined as urinary output (UO) ≤ 100 mL/day, confirmed by a further collection after 2 weeks to exclude temporary illness.
Discussion: REAL LIFE will enable the investigators to know with the highest level of scientific evidence the safety and efficacy of an incremental approach to the start of HD treatment.
Description
The majority of dialysis patients are currently treated with a fixed dose thrice-weekly hamodialysis (HD) (3HD/wk). The 3HD/wk regimen has been assumed, until recently, almost as a dogma in the dialysis community. Incremental HD is based on the simple idea of adjusting its dose according to the metrics of RKF. REAL LIFE is a pragmatic, prospective, multicentre, open label RCT, investigator-initiated, comparing the intervention arm (incremental HD) with the control arm (standard 3HD/wk). A Variable Target Model (VTM) has been suggested, which gives more clinical weight to the RKF and allows less frequent HD treatments in patients with lower RKF. The investigators recommend to start and keep on with once-weekly HD, which should be possible until residual renal urea clearance (KRU) falls below 2.5 - 3.0 mL/min/35 L, i.e., glomerular filtration rate (GFR) ≈ 4 mL/min/1.73 m2.
The primary outcome is the survival of kidney function, with the event defined as urinary output (UO) ≤ 200 mL/day, confirmed by a further collection after 2 weeks to exclude temporary illness. Secondary outcomes are: composite primary cardiovascular endpoint (cardiovascular death, non fatal myocardial infarction and/or or non fatal stroke); intima-media thickness of the carotid arteries; specific cardiomyopathy control; RKF preservation; survival of the patients; hospital admissions; anemia control; mineral and bone disorder control; middle molecules and RKF. Considering a type I error of 0.05 and type II error of 0.20, the study must enroll 49 patients in the conventional HD arm and 49 patients in the incremental HD arm, totaling 98 patients enrolled into the trial. Finally, under the assumption of an expected drop-out rate of 15%, 58 patients per group should be enrolled for a total of 116.
The assessment of the key kinetic parameters as well as the guide to the selection of operative parameters, as required to get the required equilibrated Kt/V (eKt/V = 1.2), will be done by using SPEEDY, a spreadsheet prescription tool that uses essentially the same equations used by Solute Solver, the software based on the double pool UKM recommended by the 2015 KDOQI guidelines. SPEEDY is freely available at the European Nephrology Portal (ENP).
The link is https://enp-era-edta.org/174/page/home. The control arm includes patients put on a thrice-weekly HD schedule, as detailed above. The dialysis dose (eKt/V) should be about 1.2.
PICO question:
Participants with CKD-EPI GFR ≤ 10 ml/min and daily urine output > 600 ml Intervention: one or two weekly hemodialysis (as detailed above) Comparator: three weekly hemodialysis (as per standard practice and as detailed above) Outcome: Residual renal function
Details
| Condition | End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis |
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| Treatment | Conventional Hemodialysis, Incremental hemodialysis |
| Clinical Study Identifier | NCT04360694 |
| Sponsor | Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari |
| Last Modified on | 4 June 2022 |
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