Clinical trialNCT00621426CompletedObservational

T-Wave Alternans in Dialysis Patients

SponsorNorthwestern UniversityEnrollment40End Stage Renal DiseaseSudden Cardiac Death

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Summary

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Sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia is the leading cause of death in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients treated with hemodialysis (HD). As it is anticipated that the number of individuals with ESRD will exceed 1.2 million in the next 20 years, sudden death in this population has enormous public health impact. Research has shown that arrhythmic events are temporally associated with longer periods between HD with a three-fold risk of events in the 12 hours preceding the longest inter-dialysis interval. The exact cause of these findings is unknown.

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Investigators

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Rod Passman, MD
Northwestern University
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Apr 2007
Primary completion: 31 May 2008
Completion: 31 May 2008
Last update posted: 12 Mar 2015
Registered enrollment: 40
Registry id: NCT00621426

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.