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NCT05786443PHASE2Recruiting

Safety and Efficacy of Empagliflozin in Hemodialysis

NYU Langone Health

Start Date

1/31/2024

Completion Date

12/30/2026

Summary

A 12-week, phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center study to assess the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of empagliflozin versus placebo among patients initiating hemodialysis (n=60) for the treatment of end-stage kidney disease.

Eligibility Criteria

Age Range: 18 years to No maximum

Inclusion Criteria: * Adults ≥18 years on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) with residual kidney function * Thrice-weekly HD * Willingness and capacity to provide informed consent * For women of childbearing potential, a negative pregnancy test is required at screening Exclusion Criteria: * Does not have capacity to consent * Anuria (daily urine volume \< 200 mL/day) * Planned kidney transplant within 3 months * Recurrent urinary tract infections (\>2 episodes/year or antibiotic prophylaxis) * New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class IV heart failure (HF) * Myocardial infarction, unstable angina, revascularization procedure (e.g., stent or bypass graft surgery), or cerebrovascular accident within 12 weeks * History of diabetic ketoacidosis * Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus * Hereditary glucose-galactose malabsorption or primary renal glucosuria * Liver disease (e.g., acute hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis); Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels \>2.0 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) or total bilirubin \>1.5 times the ULN, unless consistent with Gilbert's disease * Active malignancy (exceptions: squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the skin and carcinoma of the cervix in situ) defined as malignancy under active treatment with chemotherapy, radiation or immunotherapy, or being treated as palliative. * Major surgery within 12 weeks * Atraumatic amputation within past 12 months of screening, or an active skin ulcer, osteomyelitis, gangrene, or critical ischemia of the lower extremity within 6 months of screening * Combination use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) * Current use of an SGLT2 inhibitor (within 6 weeks prior to randomization) * Known allergies, hypersensitivity, or intolerance to SGLT2i or its excipients * Received an active investigational drug (including vaccines) other than a placebo agent, or used an investigational medical device within 12 weeks before Day 1/baseline * Pregnant or breast-feeding or planning to become pregnant or breast-feed during the study * Women of childbearing potential not willing to use a highly-effective method(s) of birth control, or who are unwilling or unable to be tested for pregnancy. * Any condition that in the opinion of the investigator would make participation not in the best interest of the subject

Interventions

DRUG

Empagliflozin 10 MG

DRUG

Placebo

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Conditions

End Stage Renal Disease

Locations

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts 021215

United States

NYU Langone Health

New York, New York 10016

United States