Clinical trial NCT00912184: Study Comparing High Cut-off Haemofiltration With Standard Haemofiltration in Acute Renal Failure
Official title: Pilot Randomised Controlled Study Comparing The Effect of High Cut-off Point Haemofiltration With Standard Haemofiltration In Patients With Acute Renal Failure
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: Kidney Failure, Acute
Shock
Keywords: Kidney failure, acute
Shock
Toxins, biological
Hemofiltration
High cut off/super high flux membranes
Lead sponsor: Austin Health
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2009-06-03
Enrollment: 76
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This trial aims to study the effect of combining continuous and a new polyamide membrane with larger pores in the treatment of critically ill patients with acute renal failure and low blood pressure (shock) requiring noradrenaline. The investigators wish to compare the clinical effect of this new therapy to that of haemofiltration with a standard membrane.

Detailed description: During acute renal failure, small and middle molecular-weight toxins accumulate. These molecules are difficult to remove by standard haemofiltration. Accordingly, they accumulate and contribute to morbidity in long-term dialysis patients. Molecules such as cytokines have been shown to play a central pathogenic role in critical illness. In critically ill acute renal failure patients, they accumulate in serum and likely contribute to much morbidity (fever, low blood pressure, myocardial dysfunction, renal failure itself etc.) Therefore, the removal of cytokines appears desirable. Although different approaches have been undertaken, all have had limited success due to complexity, limited efficacy or uncertain clinical response \[10-15\].

It is possible that in using a different and more porous membrane, the removal of cytokines would be much more efficient and that clinical benefits of blood purification would, therefore, be greater.

A membrane of this kind is now available. It is a modification (moderate increase in pore size) of another standard material called polyamide, which has already been used in millions of people for dialysis and haemofiltration. The increased pore size of these new membranes is directed at a more effective removal of middle molecular-weight toxins such as cytokines.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The treating clinician believes that the patient requires haemofiltration for acute renal failure
* The patient is on noradrenaline infusion for haemodynamic support
* The patient was commenced on noradrenaline or haemofiltration within the last 12 hours
* The clinician is uncertain about the balance of benefits and risks likely to be conferred by treatment with different membranes
* The treating clinicians anticipate treating the patient with haemofiltration for at least 72 hours
* Informed consent has been obtained
* The patient fulfils ONE of the following clinical criteria for initiating haemofiltration:
* Oliguria (urine output \< 100 ml/6 hr) that has been unresponsive to fluid resuscitation measures.
* Hyperkalemia (\[K+\] \> 6.5 mmol/L)
* Severe acidemia (pH \< 7.2)
* Urea \> 25 mmol/liter
* Creatinine \> 300 mmol/L
* Clinically significant organ oedema in the setting of ARF (e.g., lung)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient age is \< 18 years
* Death is imminent (\< 24 hours)
* There is a strong likelihood that the study treatment would not be continued in accordance with the study protocol
* The patient has been treated with haemofiltration or other dialysis previously during the same hospital admission
* The patient was on maintenance dialysis prior to the current hospitalisation
* Any other major illness that, in the investigator's judgment, will substantially increase the risk associated with the subject's participation in this study
* The patient is pregnant or is breastfeeding
* The patient has previously been enrolled in this study

Primary outcomes:
measure: The primary outcome measure for this study is noradrenaline free time in the first week after randomization
timeFrame: 24 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The change in the levels of each of three key cytokines; IL-1, IL-6 and IL-10
timeFrame: 24 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Heidelberg
country: Australia
facility: Austin Hospital
state: Victoria
Study officials:
affiliation: Austin Health
name: Rafidah Atan, MBBS, FANZCA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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