Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in End Stage Renal Disease

Summary

End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients exhibit an extraordinarily high annual mortality. Cardiovascular (CV) causes account for almost half of all-cause mortality. Increased left ventricular mass (LVM) is a common finding in ESRD patients on dialysis and is an independent predictor of survival. Yet, to date there is no established medical treatment to reduce CV morbidity and mortality in ESRD patients on hemodialysis. Blockade of aldosterone action by means of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) provides cardioprotection and improves outcome in heart failure patients. Furthermore, the MRA spironolactone has recently been shown to reduce LVM in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD). The investigators here hypothesize that spironolactone treatment is cardioprotective by reducing LVM in ESRD patients on dialysis.

Timeline

Start

2012-12

Primary completion

2017-02-14

Completion

2018-03-28

Publications

• Hasegawa T, Nishiwaki H, Ota E, Levack WM, Noma H. Aldosterone antagonists for people with chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Feb 15;2(2):CD013109. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013109.pub2.
• Hauser T, Dornberger V, Malzahn U, Grebe SJ, Liu D, Stork S, Nauck M, Friedrich N, Dorr M, Wanner C, Krane V, Hammer F; MiREnDa Study Group; Collaborating investigators (sites). The effect of spironolactone on diastolic function in haemodialysis patients. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Jun;37(6):1927-1936. doi: 10.1007/s10554-021-02176-5. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
• Grebe SJ, Malzahn U, Donhauser J, Liu D, Wanner C, Krane V, Hammer F. Quantification of left ventricular mass by echocardiography compared to cardiac magnet resonance imaging in hemodialysis patients. Cardiovasc Ultrasound. 2020 Sep 16;18(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s12947-020-00217-y.
• Hammer F, Krane V, Stork S, Roser C, Hofmann K, Pollak N, Allolio B, Wanner C. Rationale and design of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in End-Stage Renal Disease Study (MiREnDa). Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2014 Feb;29(2):400-5. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gft409. Epub 2013 Oct 28.

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