Chinese Medicine on Deferring Dialysis Initiation

Summary

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.

Conditions

• End-Stage Renal Disease

Interventions

DRUG

CM therapies

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.

DRUG

CKD-related management

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Xusheng Liu, MD · Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

• Ping Li, PhD · China-Japan Friendship Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-31

Primary Completion

2020-12-31

Completion

2020-12-31

Countries

• China

Study Locations