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To Determine the Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis in Each GroupNCT01685086

Surveillance and Follow-up for Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Observation of the Effect of Prophylactic Latent Tuberculosis Treatment in Patients With Severe Chronic Kidney Disease or Receiving Long-term Dialysis

An observational study of To Determine the Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis in Each Group and To Monitor the Occurrence of Active Tuberculosis, run by National Taiwan University Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

Unknown status

Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

To follow-up the latent tuberculosis infection and evaluate the risk of developing active tuberculosis in patients with severe chronic kidney disease or receiving long-term dialysis Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 20 years and older
How many people
500 participants
Where
1 siteTaiwan
Study dates
Mar 2012to not given
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 20 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: The patients with severe chronic kidney disease or long term dialysis

Who may be able to join

  • older than 20 years old
  • Estimated CCr < 30 ml/min as group of severe chronic kidney disease
  • Long-term (>3months) dialysis as dialysis group

Who cannot join

  • refusal of recruitment

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Chin-Chung Shu, MD contact

886972653087

ccshu139@ntu.edu.tw

Taiwan1 site, 1 recruiting
  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    Taipei, 100

    Chin-Chung Shu, MD

    Chin-Chung Shu, MD

    Recruiting

Other trials in Taiwan

About this study

To follow-up the latent tuberculosis infection and evaluate the risk of developing active tuberculosis in patients with severe chronic kidney disease or receiving long-term dialysis

Read the detailed description

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important infectious disease worldwide. Taiwan is still an edemic area. In 2008, there is an incidence of 62 persons having TB per 100,000 population. To control TB, we should prevent further TB transmission via early diagnosis and treatment of latent TB. In screening the risk population for TB, patients with renal failure acquiring long-term dialysis, in addition to close contacts, have higher incidence and mortality than general population. Moreover, the risk for active TB in dialysis patients is ten to 25 times larger. In Taiwan, the dialysis group is important because it has higher prevalence (2228 per in per million people by 2009 annual report of United States Renal Data System) than other countries in the world. In particular, the dialysis patients usually has an extrapulmonary presentation for their TB, so diagnosis is always delay. Hence, we should detect latent TB in those dialysis patients for monitor them from active tuberculosis.

Currently, interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) are used for finding out those with latent TB and have been proven useful for those being immunocompromised, and having BCG vaccination. For dialysis patients, IGRAs have been tested and been considered better than skin tuberculin test. However, previous studied rarely observed the patients receiving peritoneal dialysis and severe chronic kidney disease. Besides, those cross-sectional studies used the indirect evidence for diagnosis and lacked longitudinal follow-up. We thus conducted this study for observing the prevalence of latent TB in those receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis by using IGRAs. We also kept follow-up for the primary outcome of active TB occurrence.

Keywords
latent tuberculosis infection, tuberculosis, chronic kidney disease, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis
Medical subject headings
Latent Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT01685086
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Patients with severe chronic kidney diseaseNot described
Patient with peritoneal dialysisNot described
Patients with hemodialysisNot described

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. occurrence of active tuberculosis

    Measured: 2 years

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Latent tuberculosis infection

    Measured: 2 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted13 Sep 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2012

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
500 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01685086
Sponsor's protocol ID
201110013RC
Status last verified
Nov 2011
First submitted
11 Sep 2012
Last updated
13 Sep 2012
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of To Determine the Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis in Each Group and To Monitor the Occurrence of Active Tuberculosis, run by National Taiwan University Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Sep 2012. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Taiwan. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Chin-Chung Shu, MD (886972653087, ccshu139@ntu.edu.tw), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

occurrence of active tuberculosis (time frame: 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 13 Sep 2012.

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