Conditions: Chronic Renal Failure Chronic Kidney Disease Anemia
Keywords: anemia chronic kidney disease CKD chronic renal failure CRF dialysis erythropoietin EPO erythropoiesis stimulating agent ESA Hematide™ hemodialysis hemoglobin Hb Hgb Omontys peginesatide red blood cell red blood cell production
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 114
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long term safety and tolerability of peginesatide for the maintenance of hemoglobin in participants with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who had received at least 24 weeks of peginesatide treatment in an earlier study.

Detailed description:
Anemia associated with chronic kidney disease is due to several factors, primarily the inability of the diseased kidneys to produce adequate amounts of endogenous erythropoietin. Ancillary factors include the shortened lifespan of red blood cells, iron and other nutritional deficiencies, infection, and inflammation. The presence and severity of anemia are related to the duration and extent of kidney failure. Anemia is associated with increased mortality, increased likelihood of hospitalization, reduced cognitive function, and increased left ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure.

Erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs) have been established as a treatment for anemia in subjects with chronic kidney disease, and have improved the management of anemia over alternatives such as transfusion. Peginesatide is a parenteral formulation developed for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic kidney disease. Peginesatide binds to and activates the human erythropoietin receptor, and stimulates erythropoiesis in human red cell precursors in a manner similar to other known erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.

Study participants had received at least 24 weeks of peginesatide dosing in a previous Affymax-sponsored study and were to receive doses of peginesatide for up to 54 months. However, the Sponsor ended the study early.

Arms:
arm 1: Participants were from a prior Affymax peginesatide treatment study conducted in participants who were on dialysis and had been on Epoetin at study entry, and who were switched to peginesatide (NCT00434330). This group is categorized as "Maintenance Switch in Dialysis Participants" regardless of dialysis status at the start of or during this study. arm 2: Participants were from a prior Affymax peginesatide treatment study conducted in participants who were not on dialysis and not on erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs), and who received peginesatide (NCT00228436). This group is categorized as "Initiation of Treatment in Non-Dialysis Participants" regardless of dialysis status at the start of or during this study.

Interventions: intervention 1: peginesatide intervention 2: peginesatide
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants received the same initial peginesatide dose via the same route, intravenously or subcutaneously, as was administered at the end of the previous peginesatide treatment study in which the participant was enrolled. The median first dose at study start was 0.044 milligram per kilogram (mg/kg) with an interquartile range of 0.028 to 0.076 mg/kg. Each participant was to receive peginesatide as an injection administered once every 4 weeks for approximately 54 months in this trial. intervention 2: Participants received the same initial peginesatide dose via the same route, intravenously or subcutaneously, as was administered at the end of the previous peginesatide treatment study in which the participant was enrolled. The median first dose at study start was 0.024 mg/kg with an interquartile range of 0.017 to 0.035 mg/kg. Each participant was to receive peginesatide as an injection administered once every 4 weeks for approximately 54 months in this trial.

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