Recruiting

Precision Medicine

Sponsor:

Thomas Nickolas

Code:

NCT05880914

Conditions

Renal Osteodystrophy

Chronic Kidney Diseases

CKD-MBD

Bone Turnover Rate Disorder

Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

miRNAseq analysis

Standard treatment for bone disorder

Study Details

Brief summary:

Treatment of renal osteodystrophy is impeded by the lack of practical and accurate tools to determine underlying bone turnover. Gold standard bone biopsy is not practical in the clinic for the vast majority of kidney disease patients and parathyroid hormone and bone alkaline phosphatase have insufficient accuracy for turnover type to safely and confidently guide treatment of renal osteodystrophy. In the present investigation, the investigators will study a microRNA approach as a novel non-invasive biomarker of turnover for renal osteodystrophy.

Conditions

Renal Osteodystrophy

Chronic Kidney Diseases

CKD-MBD

Bone Turnover Rate Disorder

Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

Study ID

NCT05880914

Start date

Dec 21, 2022

Status verified date

Jun, 2026

Completion date

Jun 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Study participant has provided informed consent
2. Age ≥ 18 years
3. CKD Stages 3-5D regardless of kidney transplantation status
4. CKD5D patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis for at least 3 months
5. Clinically indicated treatment for renal hyperparathyroidism, renal osteodystrophy and/or Osteoporosis
6. PTH, BSAP and CTX meets defined thresholds for low or high turnover ROD type or a Bone biopsy evidence of low or high turnover based

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Currently receiving treatment in an investigational device or drug study, or less than 30 days since ending treatment on an investigational device or drug study(s)
2. Currently receiving investigational procedures/drugs from another study while participating in this study
3. Use of etelcalcetide, bisphosphonate, denosumab, teriparatide, abaloparatide or romosozumab during the 6 months prior to study enrollment; however, participant can be included if being treated with bone active agent but will have class change to an agent that will result in a change in bone turnover from low to high or high to low
4. New use of cinacalcet over the prior 6 months
5. Use of Zoledronic Acid (Reclast) less than 24 months from study enrollment for patients with eGFR <30mL/minute
6. Anticipated or scheduled kidney transplant during the study period or less than 1 year from receiving a kidney transplant
7. For patients with a solid organ transplant, less than 1 year from receiving the transplant
8. Patient has an unstable medical condition based on medical history, physical examination, and routine laboratory tests, or is otherwise unstable in the judgment of the Investigator
9. Metabolic bone diseases not related to the kidney (e.g., Paget's, Osteogenesis Imperfecta)
10. Endocrinopathy (e.g., untreated hyperthyroidism)
11. Malignancy within the last 5 years (except non-melanoma skin cancers or cervical carcinoma in situ)
12. Patient is pregnant or nursing
13. Weight >300 pounds (scanner limitation)
14. Allergy to tetracycline or demeclocycline
15. Patients on non-aspirin anticoagulants that cannot be reasonably held for biopsy
16. Patient unable to complete all protocol-required study visits or procedures, and/or to comply with all required study procedures to the best of the patient and Investigator's knowledge

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Bone-targeted management - prospective cohort

Participants diagnosed with a bone disorder related to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and undergoing a clinically indicated treatment for bone disease. Participants will have some questionnaires, research blood draws, bone scans and a bone biopsy. There will be a total of 4 visits over six months for data collection.

Interventions

miRNAseq analysis

Identify miRNA in serum and prepare a miRNA sequencing library for novel analysis.

Standard treatment for bone disorder

Participants will be prescribed a clinically indicated bone-targeted treatment for osteoporosis or bone disorder related to CKD. (non-experimental)

Primary outcome measure

  • Correlation between miRNA panel to discriminate changes in bone turnover. [ Time Frame: Five years ]
  • Correlation between a miRNA panel that identifies bone turnover type is able to also identify with bone quality. [ Time Frame: Five Years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)

Recruiting

St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110

Contacts

Thomas L Nickolas, MD MS

212-305-9847thomasn@wustl.edu

Maria Alejandra Aponte, MD

314-273-8827mariaalejandra@wustl.edu

Principal Investigator:

Thomas L Nickolas, MD, MS

More Information

Sponsor

Thomas Nickolas

Last update posted

Jun 12, 2026

Last verified

Jun, 2026

Keywords

  • Bone biopsy
  • microRNA
  • HR-pQCT
  • Bone biomarkers
  • Bone imaging

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Thomas Nickolas on 2026-06-12.