Chinese Medicine on Deferring Dialysis Initiation

Phase 2UnknownNCT02194946

Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine875 enrolled

Overview

Stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD), also end stage renal disease(ESRD), usually presents overt clinical symptoms and is a critical stage when patients are encountered with dialysis. The optimal time to initiating dialysis in patients with stage 5 CKD is addressed as the most important dialysis-related question. As indicated by the recently published European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) guideline, early initiation seemed to produce no benefit but greater expenditure and sometimes more harm.Renal replacement therapies (RRT) including dialysis are the most common procedures for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but conservative management should be an option in patients who still experience the stable period without clinical indications of dialysis.Chinese Medicine (CM) is recognized as an alternative therapy on alleviating uremic symptoms, deferring dialysis initiation, and improving quality of life. Although the effects of CM on kidney disease have been demonstrated in animal experiments, evidence from large clinical trial is insufficient. So we raise the hypothesis that CM therapies including Chinese herbal formula, Chinese patent medicine via oral pattern and/or Colonic administration, will defer the initiation of dialysis in adults with stage 5 CKD.

Chinese Medicine (CM) treatment has been applied to CKD patients commonly in China, especially those independent of dialysis. Based on the personal experience of experts from different areas in China, patients with stage 5 CKD have been treated with different formulations of herbs including Astragalus membranaceus (Huangqi), Codonopsis pilosula (Dangshen), Semen Cuscutae (Tusizi) and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (Dahuang) etc. . Based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine theory and clinical practise, these herbal medicines help strengthening "spleen-kidney" and dispelling "turbidity" . To determine whether CM therapies including Chinese herbal formula, Chinese patent medicine via oral pattern and/or Colonic administration, will significantly defer dialysis initiation, we conduct the Chinese Medicine on Deferring Dialysis Initiation (C-MODDI) study. It's a multicenter, prospective, controlled trial, also an effectiveness study that are conducted in the "real world" of a variety of busy clinical practices, with heterogeneous interventions that are more representative of the general effectiveness of CM therapies.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Interventions

CM therapiesDRUG

The choice of CM patterns will be at the treating physician's discretion. The dosing regimen of Chinese herbs and Chinese patent medicine will be as per the 2010 Chinese pharmacopoeia.The oral Chinese herbal formula will be composed of 18 herbs:Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma diosscoreae, Poria, Semen Cuscutae, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Herba Epimedii, Herba Cistanches, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Rhizoma Polygonati, Fructus Amomi, Herba Agastaches, Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Semen Coicis, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, and stir-baked Semen Persicae. The Chinese herbal formula via Colonic administration will be composed of 3 herbs: Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Calcined Concha Osterae, Herba Taraxaci.

CKD-related managementDRUG

Western medicine treatment for CKD are practised following KDIGO and KDOQI guidelines, to reach the recommended goals of nutrition, blood pressure, hemoglobulin, electrolytes, fluid control and acid-base balance.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 75 Years

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Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 18-75 years; * with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) between 5.5-15 ml/min per 1.73 m2; * Non-diabetic CKD, which should be identified by biopsy or patients' medical histories. * East Asian. Exclusion Criteria: * Clinical indications of dialysis still occur after conservative kidney management for 1 week, which will be ruled out as hemoglobin \< 70g/L; or serum potassium\> 6.5mmol/L; or Carbon Dioxide Combining Power (CO2CP) \<13mmol/L; or EPI-GFR≤5ml/min/1.73m2 ; * Pregnant or lactating. * Critical status, such as alimentary tract hemorrhage or decompensated cirrhosis; * History of malignancy other than a successfully and completely treated carcinoma; * Any condition (mental or physical) that would interfere with the patient's ability to comply with the study protocol; * Concurrent or current treatment with glucocorticoid or immunosuppressant agents in last 3 months; * Participation in any other clinical trial; * Known or suspected allergy to certain agents involved;

Locations (29)

Anhui Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine

Hefei, Anhui, China

China PLA General Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

China-Japan Friendship Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

First Hospital of Peking University

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Time to initiation of dialysis from enrollment.

Averaged time from enrollment to dialysis initiation or death from any cause, whichever comes first. Patients commence dialysis based on the following criteria: 1. Clinical indications of dialysis include medically refractory serum potassium\> 6.5mmol/L, total carbon dioxide (TCO2) \<13mmol/L, eGFR≤5ml/min/1.73m2 (calculated by EPI formula), or the patient is symptomatic (see criteria #2). If these indications remain occur after receiving conservative CKD-related management for 1 week, or if relapse twice within one month, the patient definitely reaches the endpoint. 2. Uremic symptoms include nausea, vomit, malnutrition, pericarditis or pleurisy, volume overload, encephalopathy, bleeding tendency, refractory hypertension, or other symptoms that are likely to be ameliorated by dialysis.