Invasive Monitoring of Pulmonary Artery Pressure (PAP) Among Dialysis Treated Patients

The purpose of this study is examine whether invasive pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) monitoring could be beneficial for the patients in dialysis treatment. Ten implantable pressure sensors (CardioMEMS ®) will be implanted and the PAPs of the individual participants are recorded during and in between the routine dialysis treatment sessions. This is an exploratory pilot study, where major interest lies in the values and changes in PAP in relation to other hemodynamic parameters among patients in dialysis treatment. Implanted device is only monitoring the patient without any effect on the actual treatment.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: End Stage Renal Disease; Cardiac Insufficiency

Detailed Description

Dialysis treatment is hemodynamically problematic in up to one third of the patients. Particularly, estimation of the adequate fluid removal during the dialysis can be difficult. Removing too much fluid can lead to dehydration, hypotension and dizziness, and insufficient removals can lead to fluid accumulation and worsening of possible heart failure. Both under- and overestimation of the fluid removal have been connected to increased mortality. Balancing the fluid balance is especially challenging in patients with simultaneous heart failure.

Several measures are made and precautions taken during the dialysis to optimize the ultrafiltration individually for each patient. The key question in the estimation of the right amount of ultrafiltration is, how much and at what speed fluid can be safely removed from the patient without critically lowering the filling and preload of the heart.

The results of the CHAMPION trial show that therapy guided by PAP is superior to conventional way in estimating the optimal fluid balance among heart failure patients. Compared to the heart failure patients in the CHAMPION trial, the ESRD patients share some similarities. In both groups, estimating the fluid balance is crucial, but difficult. The changes in fluid balance among ESRD patients are much larger.

In the present study the investigators aim to evaluate the potential of invasive measured PAP in the context of dialysis treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

After the implantation the basic medical history is taken, echocardiography is made, and their laboratory measurements are recorded. Participants are then monitored during their routine dialysis treatment twice a week over the period of 1 month. In addition twice a day measurement is recorded in home during the study.

PAP measures and its changes are then compared to all the haemodynamical data available including blood volume, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, hematocrit measures and bioimpedance measurement during the dialysis treatment.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 8

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Finland
  • Päijät-Häme
    • Lahti, Päijät-Häme, Finland, 15900
      • Recruiting
      • Päijät-Häme Central Hospital
      • Contact: Tuomas Kerola, MD; Phone Number: +358381911; Email: tuomas.kerola@phsotey.fi
      • Contact: Seppo Ojanen, MD; Phone Number: +358447195895; Email: seppo.ojanen@phsotey.fi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Ten patients receiving hemodialysis treatment will be recruited for the implantation of the CardioMEMS HF System. Five of them will be patients with ESRD caused by polycystic kidney disease or glomerulonephritis with no evidence of cardiovascular disease. The other five will be patients with ESRD and hemodynamical instability during and in between dialysis treatments, defined as ultrafiltration rate minimum of 800 ml/hour and dialysis hypotension.

Description

Inclusion Criteria (In addition to details described in "Study Population Description"):

• Subject who is eligible for a CardioMEMS device per physician discretion
• Subject is living at home
• Subject's ability to take part of the study will be discussed with their treating nephrologist.
• Subject is willing and capable of providing informed consent, participating in all associated study activities

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any non-cardiac or non-renal medical condition causing the life-expectancy to be less than one year.
• The patient is not able to take part of the study or the study can be considered to be harmful for the patient in the opinion of the investigator or the treating nephrologist.
• Age >75 years
• Age <18 years
• Probable noncompliance
• Subjects with an active infection
• Subjects who, in the investigator's opinion, are unable to tolerate a right heart catheterization
• Subjects who have had a major cardiovascular event (e.g., myocardial infarction, open heart surgery, stroke, etc.) within 2 months of the baseline visit
• Subjects with a device (Pacemaker/Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator/CRT) implanted < 30 days prior to enrollment
• Subjects with congenital heart disease or mechanical right heart valve(s)
• Subjects likely to undergo heart transplantation or ventricular assist device implantation within 6 months of the baseline visit
• Subjects with known coagulation disorders or subjects who are unable to take two types of blood thinning medications or anticoagulation therapy for one month after the sensor is implanted.
• Subject is enrolled in another study with an active treatment arm
• Pregnancy
• Diameter of Pulmonary Artery <7-10 mm
• Subjects with history of recurrent (> 1) pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
study group; hemodialysis treated patients as described in the inclusion of the study

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) during the dialysis treatment	PAP is recorded every ten minutes during the standard dialysis treatment (4-6h). Measurement is repeated twice a week for one month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) in between the dialysis treatment	measurement is made twice a day over the period of one month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Joint Authority for Päijät-Häme Social and Health Care
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Tuomas V Kerola, MD PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, Lahti, Finland

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 29, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 9, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): August 10, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 23, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 21, 2017
• Last Verified: August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Kidney Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Renal Insufficiency; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic; Heart Failure; Kidney Failure, Chronic
• Other Study ID Numbers: Q298diarnro18/2016

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO