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Mediators of Loin Pain in IgA Nephropathy (LO-PAIgN)

9 de junio de 2026 actualizado por: University of Leicester

LO-PAIgN: Mediators of Loin Pain in Immunoglobulin-A Nephropathy

The goal of this observational study is to learn about loin pain in people with Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN).

The main question it aims to answer is:

What changes occur in the kidneys, urine, and blood when people with IgAN experience loin pain?

Participants will have MRI scans of their kidneys, provide urine and blood samples, and have their latest kidney function test results reviewed. For participants who experience loin pain, these assessments will be carried out during a pain episode and again when they are pain-free, so the results can be compared.

Descripción general del estudio

Estado

Aún no reclutando

Descripción detallada

Some people with Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) experience loin pain, or pain around the kidneys, but the underlying cause of this pain is not well understood. Current treatment options often do not provide effective pain relief, and a better understanding of the mechanisms involved may support the development of more targeted treatments in the future and help understand what this pain may mean for the disease state.

This observational study will investigate whether loin pain in IgAN is associated with changes in the kidneys, kidney function, and biological markers in blood and urine. Participants will undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the kidneys to assess whether there are structural or tissue-related differences during episodes of pain compared with pain-free periods. The study will also assess the renal pelvis, the urine-collecting part of the kidney, to explore whether it may be involved in the development of pain.

Blood and urine samples will be collected to investigate whether biological molecules differ during pain episodes and pain-free periods. Urine samples will also be examined under the microscope to assess for the presence of blood cells or other features that may suggest kidney injury or inflammation.

Participants' most recent kidney function test results will also be reviewed to explore whether kidney function is associated with the presence or severity of loin pain. Together, these assessments aim to provide a better understanding of what happens in the kidneys and biological samples of people with IgAN when they experience loin pain.

Tipo de estudio

De observación

Inscripción (Estimado)

40

Contactos y Ubicaciones

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Estudio Contacto

  • Nombre: Postgraduate Researcher
  • Número de teléfono: +447539398535
  • Correo electrónico: ik186@leicester.ac.uk

Copia de seguridad de contactos de estudio

Ubicaciones de estudio

    • Leicester
      • Leicester, Leicester, Reino Unido, LE1 7HA
        • University Hospitals of Leicester
        • Contacto:

Criterios de participación

Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.

Criterio de elegibilidad

Edades elegibles para estudiar

  • Adulto
  • Adulto Mayor

Acepta Voluntarios Saludables

No

Método de muestreo

Muestra no probabilística

Población de estudio

The study population will include adults aged 18 years or over with a renal biopsy-confirmed diagnosis of Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) who have capacity to provide informed consent.

Participants will be recruited into two cohorts. Cohort A will include participants with IgAN who experience episodic or intermittent loin pain, defined as pain occurring at least once every 6 months. Cohort B will include participants with IgAN who have no history of loin pain.

Participants will be excluded if they have another renal disease, are receiving therapies that may affect immune-mediated pathways, have received a kidney transplant, are receiving dialysis, are taking part in an interventional study that may affect kidney function, or have conditions or implants that are not compatible with MRI scanning.

Descripción

Inclusion Criteria:

Cohort A

  1. ≥18 years of age at the time of recruitment
  2. IgAN diagnosis confirmed with a renal biopsy
  3. Episodic/Intermittent Loin Pain (defined as pain at least once every 6 months)
  4. Have the capacity to consent to the study Cohort B

1) ≥18 years of age at the time of recruitment 2) IgAN diagnosis confirmed with a renal biopsy 3) No history of loin pain 4) Have the capacity to consent to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Cohort A

  1. Constant loin pain
  2. Infrequent loin pain (no pain experienced in the last 6 months)
  3. Inability to differentiate loin pain from back pain
  4. Other renal diseases
  5. Therapies that interfere with immune-mediation like steroids and complement inhibitors
  6. Kidney transplant recipients
  7. Current participation in an interventional study that may affect kidney function
  8. Patients on dialysis
  9. Patients with implants that are not MRI-safe (pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cochlear implants, some shunts, neurostimulators, some aneurysm clips, etc.)

Cohort B

  1. Other renal diseases
  2. Therapies that interfere with immune-mediation like steroids and complement inhibitors
  3. Kidney transplant recipients
  4. Current participation in an interventional study that may affect kidney function
  5. Patients on dialysis
  6. Patients with conditions/implants that are not MRI-compatible (claustrophobia, pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cochlear implants, some shunts, neurostimulators, some aneurysm clips, etc.)

Plan de estudios

Esta sección proporciona detalles del plan de estudio, incluido cómo está diseñado el estudio y qué mide el estudio.

¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?

Detalles de diseño

Cohortes e Intervenciones

Grupo / Cohorte
Cohort A: Loin pain group
This group would consist of patients with IgAN who experience loin pain episodes
Cohort B: No loin pain group
This group would consist of patients with IgAN who have never experienced loin pain

¿Qué mide el estudio?

Medidas de resultado primarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Change in MRI-derived total kidney volume between active pain and follow-up assessments in participants with episodic loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Differences in total kidney volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Change in MRI-derived renal cortical volume between active pain and follow-up assessments in participants with episodic loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Differences in renal cortical volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Change in MRI-derived renal medullary volume between active pain and follow-up assessments in participants with episodic loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Differences in renal medullary volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Change in MRI-derived renal T1 relaxation time between active pain and follow-up assessments in participants with episodic loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Difference in renal T1 relaxation time (ms)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Presence of renal pelvis abnormality on renal MRI in participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Presence of renal pelvis abnormality, including renal pelvis dilatation
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit.
Difference in MRI-derived total kidney volume between participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in total kidney volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in MRI-derived renal cortical volume between participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in renal cortical volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in MRI-derived renal medullary volume between participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in renal medullary volume (mL)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in MRI-derived renal T1 relaxation time between participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in T1 relaxation time (ms)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Assessment of organ-level changes between pain-prone patients and those with no history of loin pain using structural renal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Presence of renal pelvis abnormality, including renal pelvis dilatation
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.

Medidas de resultado secundarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis to analyse differences in the urinary proteome between an active pain episode and when it subsides
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Differences in abundance ratios
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis to analyse the differences in the urinary proteome between pain-prone patients and those with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Differences in abundance ratios
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Assessing the difference in molecules of interest between an active pain episode and when it subsides using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in urine, serum, and plasma
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Differences in concentrations (w/v)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Assessing the difference in molecules of interest between pain-prone patients and those who do not have a history of loin pain using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in urine, serum, and plasma.
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Differences in concentrations (w/v)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Comparing the presence of urinary factors that indicate active intra-renal injury between an active pain episode and when it subsides using urine microscopy
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Difference in abundance (count per high magnification field)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Comparing the presence of urinary factors that indicate active intra-renal injury between an pain-prone patients and those with no history of loin pain using urine microscopy
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in abundance (count per high magnification field)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Comparing the presence of urinary factors that indicate active intra-renal injury between an active pain episode and when it subsides using the urine dipstick test
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Difference in presence (Yes/No)
Within 72 hours of active loin pain onset and at follow-up assessment at least 2 weeks after the first visit
Comparing the presence of urinary factors that indicate active intra-renal injury between an pain-prone patients and those with no history of loin pain using the urine dipstick test
Periodo de tiempo: Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.
Difference in presence (Yes/No)
Within 72 hours of pain onset for participants with episodic loin pain and baseline assessment after enrolment for participants with no history of loin pain.

Otras medidas de resultado

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Difference in estimated glomerular filtration rate between participants with episodic loin pain and participants with no history of loin pain
Periodo de tiempo: Within the 12 months before or at enrolment
Difference in estimated glomerular filtration rate (mL/min/1.73 m²)
Within the 12 months before or at enrolment

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Haresh Selvaskandan, MBChB, MRCP, MRes, PhD, University of Leicester, University Hospitals of Leicester

Fechas de registro del estudio

Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados ​​por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.

Fechas importantes del estudio

Inicio del estudio (Estimado)

20 de agosto de 2026

Finalización primaria (Estimado)

20 de diciembre de 2027

Finalización del estudio (Estimado)

2 de junio de 2028

Fechas de registro del estudio

Enviado por primera vez

2 de junio de 2026

Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

9 de junio de 2026

Publicado por primera vez (Actual)

16 de junio de 2026

Actualizaciones de registros de estudio

Última actualización publicada (Actual)

16 de junio de 2026

Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

9 de junio de 2026

Última verificación

1 de junio de 2026

Más información

Términos relacionados con este estudio

Plan de datos de participantes individuales (IPD)

¿Planea compartir datos de participantes individuales (IPD)?

NO

Descripción del plan IPD

The nature of the study warrants within-group and between group comparisons. Individual data will not be valuable in a meaningful way as it is an observational case-control study.

Información sobre medicamentos y dispositivos, documentos del estudio

Estudia un producto farmacéutico regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.

No

Estudia un producto de dispositivo regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.

No

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