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Blood Flow Conditions and Sounds in AVFs
Led by Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research · Updated on 2025-09-04
15
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
152 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This is a prospective non-pharmacological interventional study aimed at investigating the relationship between the blood flow condition and the arteriovenous fistula (AVF) sound, with the ultimate aim of predicting the AVF clinical, in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who require the creation of a vascular access for extracorporeal circulation.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Blood Flow Conditions and Sounds in AVFs
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Provision of informed consent prior to any study specific procedures.
- Female and/or male aged between 18 and 90 years.
- Patients in hemodialysis treatment who need a new vascular access or patients in the pre-dialysis program due to end-stage renal disease.
- First-choice treatment is the surgical creation of an autogenous arteriovenous fistula in the patient's forearm.
You will not qualify if you...
- Contraindications for the creation of an autogenous arteriovenous fistula.
- Presence of a previously failed arteriovenous fistula in the same arm selected for surgery.
- Contraindications to MRI including pregnancy, claustrophobia, cardiac pacemakers, or other MRI-incompatible prostheses.
- Patients already on hemodialysis through a catheter or graft.
- Patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis.
- Patients with a life expectancy of less than 2 years.
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
A.O. Papa Giovanni XXIII - U.O. Nefrologia e Dialisi
Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, 20147
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Research Team
M
Michela Bozzetto
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Number of Arms
1
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