An observational study in Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy (CUA) and Calciphylaxis, sponsored by RWTH Aachen University. Status unknown at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-10-14.
Sponsored by RWTH Aachen University · Observational
Observational, registry, prospective, non-interventional collection of CUA patient data. Patient treatment is carried out within clinical routine, at the discretion of the physicians and according to existing treatment guidelines. Participating physicians will not be subject to any instructions with regard to the diagnosis and therapy of their patients.
Calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA, calciphylaxis) is a rare disease (ORPHA280062) with dramatically high mortality characterized clinically by the occurrence of painful debilitating cutaneous lesions and ulcerations. Median survival time is about 1.5 years. Many uncertainties still exist about risk factors and optimal therapy. CUA mainly occurs in patients with severe renal insufficiency or ESRD.
The aim of the present initiative is to establish an international (European) observational registry for CUA patients. This registry will help to reach a critical mass of CUA patients, will allow novel insights into pathophysiology, and will help establishing systematically an overview upon risk factors and long-term outcome of CUA patients. The design of the international registry is supposed to adopt the structure of the presently running nation-wide German calciphylaxis registry.
The investigators plan to initiate a registry in which treating physicians can provide data upon demographics, clinical picture, comorbidities, medical treatments and laboratory data at the time of diagnosis and serial follow-up time points. In addition investigators will build-up a biobank for full blood, serum and plasma samples as well as tissue samples.
The registry will allow investigations regarding potential subgroups of patients (proximal versus distal forms of CUA), geno-phenotype correlations, description of international state-of-the-art treatment, and identification of preventive tools, risk factors and biomarkers for estimation of prognosis.
Furthermore, the registry will be the nidus for further scientific exchange between experts and clinicians on the field of uremic vascular calcification.
23 studies on the registry are indexed under Calciphylaxis; 10 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 1,000 is above the median of 450 across 10 observational studies indexed under Calciphylaxis.
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Patients with diagnosed CUA
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Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Prognosis of patients with calciphylaxis (survival time)
Survival time is defined as 1) time between diagnosis of calciphylaxis and death (or end of follow-up) or 2) - in case time of diagnosis is not recorded - time between registry recording and death (or end of follow-up). Analysis of survival time is done using the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Kaplan-Meier plot. With a Cox hazard model, we will try to identify additional factors influencing survival time. Hereby it is possible to take into consideration interaction between the parameters.
Time frame: 5 years
Diagnosis of calciphylaxis
An internet based multilingual registry in which treating physicians can provide patients' data (online questionnaire) upon: demographics, the clinical picture including photo documentation and pain scale (VAS) reporting, comorbidities, medical treatments including dialysis and operations, wound management and laboratory data (serum-creatinine, , BUN, ionized / total calcium, serum phosphorus, PTH, alkaline, phosphatase, calcidiol, albumin, CRP, HbA1c, cholesterol, ferritin, hemoglobin, leukocyte count). The international registry will allow a more rapid identification of patients with calciphylaxis than on a national basis alone, will help establish diagnostic algorithms, and will increase the awareness of the disease.
Time frame: 5 years
Risk factors
More detailed identification of risk factors: the registry will allow investigations regarding potential subgroups of patients (proximal versus distal forms of CUA), geno-phenotype correlations, description of international state-of-the-art treatment, and identification of preventive tools, risk factors and biomarkers for estimation of prognosis.
Time frame: 5 years
Factors influencing prognosis of patients with calciphylaxis
Evaluation of the collected data from the time point of diagnosis and serial follow-up time points and further scientific exchange between experts and clinicians on the field of uremic vascular calcification will allow identification of subgroups of patients with potentially distinct pattern of risk factors, clinical picture and prognosis, and establishing factors influencing prognosis of patients with calciphylaxis and to develop novel and/or individualized treatment strategies
Time frame: 5 years
Novel therapeutic options
By increasing the reported cases towards a critical threshold in Europe enabling the performance of RCTs comparing available or upcoming therapeutic options in CUA pts.
Time frame: 5 years
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