Reduce Cardiovascular Calcifications to Reduce QT Interval in Dialysis

Summary

Research proposal to evaluate the impact of different phosphate binders on the progression of cardiovascular calcification and QT dispersion in new haemodialysis patients.

Timeline

Start

2007-01

Primary completion

2010-09

Completion

2011-09

Publications

• Background Di Iorio B, D'Avanzo E, Piscopo C, Cucciniello E, Bellizzi V: QT and phosphatemia: a novel sensitive marker of cardiovascolar risk for an old killer . 12th Assisi European Meeting on Cardionephrology, Cardionephrology 10, Nuova BIOS ed, 2008;23-26
• Results Marangon N, Lindholm B, Stenvinkel P. Nonphosphate-binding effects of sevelamer--are they of clinical relevance? Semin Dial. 2008 Sep-Oct;21(5):385-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2008.00440.x. Epub 2008 Jun 19.
• Results Di Iorio BR, Bortone S, Piscopo C, Grimaldi P, Cucciniello E, D'Avanzo E, Mondillo F, Cillo N, Bellizzi V. Cardiac vascular calcification and QT interval in ESRD patients: is there a link? Blood Purif. 2006;24(5-6):451-9. doi: 10.1159/000095362. Epub 2006 Aug 25.
• Results Di Iorio BR, D'Avanzo E, Piscopo C, Grimaldi P, Cucciniello E, Cillo N, Bellizzi V. Progression of vascular calcification increases QT interval in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2006 Dec;21(12):3609-10. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfl417. Epub 2006 Jul 31. No abstract available.
• Results Cozzolino M, Galassi A, Pasho S, Fallabrino G, Gallieni M, Brancaccio D. Preventive measures and new pharmacological approaches of calcium and phosphate disorders. Contrib Nephrol. 2008;161:234-239. doi: 10.1159/000130696.
• Results Nolan CR, McCarron DA. Lack of mortality benefit with sevelamer. Kidney Int. 2008 May;73(9):1093; author reply 1093-4. doi: 10.1038/ki.2008.46. No abstract available.
• Results Wrong O, Harland C. Sevelamer. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Jun;23(6):2108; author reply 2101-2. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfn162. Epub 2008 Apr 9. No abstract available.
• Results Negri AL. [K-DOQI guidelines for calcium and phosphorus metabolism in chronic kidney disease: outcomes, compliance and new drugs for treatment]. Nefrologia. 2007;27(6):670-3. No abstract available. Spanish.
• Results Hamida FB, Fatma LB, Barbouch S, Kaaroud H, Helal I, Hedri H, Abdallah TB, Maiz HB, Kheder A. Effect of sevelamer on mineral and lipid abnormalities in hemodialysis patients. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl. 2008 Mar;19(2):183-8.
• Results St Peter WL, Liu J, Weinhandl E, Fan Q. A comparison of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality, hospitalization, and morbidity in hemodialysis: a secondary analysis of the Dialysis Clinical Outcomes Revisited (DCOR) randomized trial using claims data. Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Mar;51(3):445-54. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.12.002.
• Results Winkelmayer WC, Tonelli M. Phosphate binder choice in dialysis patients: a call for evidence-based rather than marketing-based clinical practice. Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Mar;51(3):362-5. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.01.004. No abstract available.
• Results Mansour J, Shahapuni I, El Esper N, Fournier A. Block randomized trial evidencing lower mortality with sevelamer compared with calcium phosphate binder in incident dialysis patients. Kidney Int. 2008 Feb;73(4):510. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002752. No abstract available.
• Results Ferreira A, Frazao JM, Monier-Faugere MC, Gil C, Galvao J, Oliveira C, Baldaia J, Rodrigues I, Santos C, Ribeiro S, Hoenger RM, Duggal A, Malluche HH; Sevelamer Study Group. Effects of sevelamer hydrochloride and calcium carbonate on renal osteodystrophy in hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Feb;19(2):405-12. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2006101089. Epub 2008 Jan 16.
• Results Suki WN; Dialysis Clinical Outcomes Revisited Investigators. Effects of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality in hemodialysis patients: results of a randomized clinical trial. J Ren Nutr. 2008 Jan;18(1):91-8. doi: 10.1053/j.jrn.2007.10.019.
• Results Russo D, Miranda I, Ruocco C, Battaglia Y, Buonanno E, Manzi S, Russo L, Scafarto A, Andreucci VE. The progression of coronary artery calcification in predialysis patients on calcium carbonate or sevelamer. Kidney Int. 2007 Nov;72(10):1255-61. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002518. Epub 2007 Sep 5.
• Results Suki WN, Zabaneh R, Cangiano JL, Reed J, Fischer D, Garrett L, Ling BN, Chasan-Taber S, Dillon MA, Blair AT, Burke SK. Effects of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on mortality in hemodialysis patients. Kidney Int. 2007 Nov;72(9):1130-7. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002466. Epub 2007 Aug 29.
• Natale P, Green SC, Ruospo M, Craig JC, Vecchio M, Elder GJ, Strippoli GF. Phosphate binders for preventing and treating chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 Jun 27;6(6):CD006023. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006023.pub4.
• Ruggeri M, Bellasi A, Cipriani F, Molony D, Bell C, Russo D, Di Iorio B. Sevelamer is cost effective versus calcium carbonate for the first-line treatment of hyperphosphatemia in new patients to hemodialysis: a patient-level economic evaluation of the INDEPENDENT-HD study. J Nephrol. 2015 Oct;28(5):593-602. doi: 10.1007/s40620-014-0122-8. Epub 2014 Jul 16.
• Di Iorio BR, Cucciniello E, Bellizzi V. Vascular calcification and QT interval in incident hemodialysis patients. J Nephrol. 2009 Nov-Dec;22(6):694-8.

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