Study for Subjects With Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) Not Receiving Dialysis

Summary

The proposed study is designed to test a novel dosing paradigm that would facilitate the treatment of anemia in CKD patients not on dialysis. Anemic patients who are not currently receiving ESA therapy will be dosed with darbepoetin alfa Q2W for 18 weeks.

Timeline

Start

2004-05

Primary completion

2005-03

Completion

2005-03

Publications

• Results Silver MR, Geronemus R, Krause M, Chen CY, Kewalramani R, Stehman-Breen C. Anemia treatment with Q2W darbepoetin alfa in patients with chronic kidney disease naive to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents. Curr Med Res Opin. 2009 Jan;25(1):123-31. doi: 10.1185/03007990802594818.

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