A European study on acetate free biofiltration versus bicarbonate dialysis (quality control)

ISRCTN	ISRCTN37257308
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN37257308
Secondary identifying numbers	N/A

Submission date: 14/06/2006
Registration date: 03/07/2006
Last edited: 08/09/2008

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Urological and Genital Diseases

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

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Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Dr Antonio Santoro
Scientific

Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Sant'Orsola Malpighi
Divisione di Nefrologia e Dialisi
Via Palagi
9
Bologna
40138
Italy

Study information

Study design	Prospective, randomised, long-term study
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Treatment
Scientific title
Study objectives	It is a known fact that quality of life is poor in a large proportion of dialysis patients and that life expectancy is four to six times shorter than in non-dialysed subjects. Much effort is thus required to improve clinical results in terms of cost-effectiveness, reducing complications, and improving the quality of life being offered. Adequate dialysis treatments and biocompatibility may not only affect the acute intradialysis events, but may also have an impact on interdialysis morbidity and possible long-term complications. Acetate free biofiltration (AFB) is a dialysis treatment based on a buffer-free dialysate and a bicarbonate infusion in the post-dilution mode. AFB has been used for both children and adults, favourably affecting the acid-base balance and the nutritional indexes. Furthermore, a lot of studies have shown that AFB can improve cardiovascular stability during ultrafiltration and reduce dialysis symptoms. Nevertheless, all the studies performed so far have been short-term, since the monitoring time has been one year or less, and so the long-term effects of AFB on the clinical outcome remains to be established. On theoretical grounds, a dialytic procedure capable of improving small and medium size solute clearance, vascular tolerance, acid-base equilibrium correction, and membrane-associated reactions, seems to possess the characteristics to improve the long-term clinical results by slowing down or preventing the onset of complications.
Ethics approval(s)	Ethics committee approval given by the ethical committee of the Hospital Sant' Orsola-Malpighi on the 25th January 1998 (ref: 139 SC).
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Renal failure requiring haemodialysis
Intervention	AFB and bicarbonate dialysis will be carried out in line with the protocols normally used in dialysis centres. AFB will be conducted using haemodialysers with AN69 membranes and infusing a sodium bicarbonate solution with a concentration to be chosen between 145 mEq/l and 167 mEq/l in such a quantity as to guarantee a post-dialysis bicarbonatemia between 27 and 30 mEq/l. Both AFB and bicarbonate dialysis will be conducted using haemodialysers with controlled ultrafiltration rate. For the bicarbonate dialysis we require the use of a biocompatible membrane, such as AN69, or a low-flux membrane such as low-flux synthetic or cellulose-modified membrane (ultrafiltration rate less than 20). The inclusion of AN69 in bicarbonate dialysis will allow us to separate the role of the membrane from that of the dialysis methodology. Ratio of the pre- and post-dialysis urea concentrations (KT/V) = 1,2 and, at any rate, the same for the two dialysis methods within the same Centre. The KT/V is calculated with Daugirdas second generation formula.
Intervention type	Drug
Pharmaceutical study type(s)
Phase	Not Specified
Drug / device / biological / vaccine name(s)	Sodium bicarbonate
Primary outcome measure	The primary aim of this multicentric trial is to verify, in a large group of patients, the long-term outcomes in term of mortality rate between AFB and bicarbonate dialysis.
Secondary outcome measures	The secondary aims are to verify the clinical effects of AFB on intra and inter-dialytic symptoms, metabolic and nutritional indexes, morbidity, patients well-being and quality of life.
Overall study start date	01/10/1997
Completion date	07/01/2000

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	No. of patients: more or equal to 400
Key inclusion criteria	All new patients (who started haemodialysis up to ten months prior to the start of the protocol) defined as critical will be included in the study after an adequate information about the aims of the study. Critical patients are defined as such if they present at least one of the following conditions: 1. Diabetes 2. Age equal or over 60 years 3. Cardiovascular instability (defined as a frequency of hypotensive episodes in more than 20% of dialysis sessions, or independently of frequency, if hypotension is accompanied by angina or major arrhythmia's)
Key exclusion criteria	1. Age greater than 78 years 2. Active neoplasia 3. Severe cardiopathies (New York Heart Association [NYHA] Class III & Class IV) 4. Decompensating cirrhosis 5. Poor vascular access function (pump flow (Qb) less than 200 ml/m or need for single needle system) 6. Previous continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) treatment or kidney transplant 7. On waiting list for kidney transplant
Date of first enrolment	01/10/1997
Date of final enrolment	07/01/2000

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Czech Republic
France
Germany
Italy
Spain

Study participating centre

Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Sant'Orsola Malpighi

Bologna
40138
Italy

Sponsor information

Hospal S.p.A. (Italy)
Industry

Via Ferrarese
219/9
Bologna
40128
Italy

"ROR"	https://ror.org/02kf9ya90

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Industry

Hospal S.p.A. (Italy)

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Results and Publications

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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
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