The purpose of this study is to find out whether a combination of drugs is a safe treatment for MGRS-associated kidney disease including cast nephropathy associated with multiple myeloma. The combination of drugs in this study is cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, dexamethasone (CyBorD) with daratumumab SC. In addition, we will find out whether the study drug combination is an effective treatment for these conditions.
We would like to learn about how people who apply for healthcare financial assistance experience the application process, including things that make the application process work well or that were challenging. At this time we are not able to offer interviews to people who applied to UNC or Duke, we are interested in hearing from people who applied to other programs (such as Atrium, Novant, Wake, Vidant, ECU, Cape Fear Health Net, Physicians Reach Out, or Project Access).
Help shape the future of lupus! Do you want to provide a game-changing contribution to lupus-centered research? Help us make clinical research more efficient and effective. If you have lupus, you can participate by providing samples we can study, such as blood, urine, saliva, and/or stool, to help doctors combat lupus head-on. Compensation provided.
The purpose of this study is to learn if a study medication called semaglutide (known as Ozempic) improves blood sugar control in people treated with dialysis.
In this study, we will learn more about the safety and effectiveness of a study treatment that is injected into one of the kidneys of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes.
We have study goals: (1) To conduct phone interviews to ask about symptoms and life impact from adult patients living with PSC; (2) To lead community advisory board discussions to decide on using existing symptom measures 'as is', modify existing measures or develop new measures to evaluate PSC symptoms; and (3) To conduct interviews with adult patients with PSC to assess their understanding and comprehension of selected symptom measures. We plan to consent and enroll up to 75 patients into a Screening database. From the database, we will select up to 24 patients to interview for Aim 1 and up to 16 patients to interview for Aim 3. Interviews will be conducted over the phone by staff at Duke University. At the end of the study, we will have 3 PSC symptom measures for use in future PSC studies.
Have you been listed for kidney transplant at UNC? If so, you may be able to take part in a research study to help us learn how the process of waiting for a kidney transplant impacts you.
Patients hospitalized with anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibody disease, an autoimmune disease, are treated with a number of medications to stop the inflammation created by the disease. In this study, we want to see if adding the drug imlidifase to those usual treatments will stop the inflammation faster and helps reduce damage to the kidneys.
People with kidney disease that have the APOL1 risk variant are at a greater risk for developing protein in their urine and chronic kidney disease. This research study is being done to determine if the investigational drug, VX-147 can slow or stop the worsening of kidney function as well as target the underlying cause of kidney disease.
The purpose of this study is to test a medication called voclosporin in adolescent lupus nephritis patients. Voclosporin is approved for use in adult patients with active lupus nephritis but not for children or adolescents.