Parathyroid Hormone Level and Growth in Pediatric Patients With ESRD on Regular Hemodialysis
Status:
COMPLETED
Trial end date:
2024-01-22
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Summary
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as either renal damage and/ or a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for more than 3 months. End stage renal disease (ESRD) is defined as GFR below 15 mL/min/1.73 m2.
Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is an insidious disease that develops early in the course of CKD and increase in severity as the GFR deteriorates. High serum levels of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) are known to cause high turnover bone disease, i.e. osteitis fibrosa and have also been reported to increase the mortality risk in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD).
Standard therapy for SHPT includes dietary calcium supplementation, active vitamin D, and phosphate binders; however, these are often insufficient to allow patients to achieve their serum parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcium and calcium-phosphorus product (Ca × P) targets.
Recent preclinical studies have demonstrated that treatment with calcimimetics that increase the sensitivity of the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) to calcium can reverse the alterations in CaR and vitamin D receptor expression and parathyroid cell proliferation that are associated with SHPT.
Calcimimetics such as cinacalect are positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor that increase its sensitivity by lowering the threshold for activation by extracellular calcium ions. The calcimimetic cinacalcet mainly increases the sensitivity of the CaR to extracellular Ca, thus inhibiting the release of PTH, although, as recently shown, it also decreases PTH synthesis.
Growth hormone (GH) indirectly promotes the growth of child by stimulating the production of insulin like growth factor (IGF-1), many children with renal disease have normal or elevated level of GH in their blood otherwise the levels of IGF-1 are low because the approximately 98% of IGF-1 is always bound to one of binding proteins (BP) inside the liver, so this accumulated protein will reduce the function of IGF-1.
Using cinacalcet in controlling hyperparathyroidism may reduce growth problems in children with ESRD with regular hemodialysis.