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Diseases / Acute Kidney Injury

Acute Kidney Injury

Disease

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within days and is detected by rising serum creatinine and/or reduced urine output. It is clinically important because it is common in hospitalized and critically ill patients and is associated with major complications.

Trials
1594
Recruiting
181
Completed
801
With results
102

Last revised

Pipeline

Phase by status

PhaseRecruitingNot yetBy invitationActiveCompletedTerminatedWithdrawnSuspendedUnknownTotal
Early Phase 1 21312 9
Phase 1 1116342 27
Phase 1/2 21154 13
Phase 2 21524914811 110
Phase 2/3 2429526 30
Phase 3 71231113116 72
Phase 4 138242143223 107
Not applicable 63361102213313166 444
Unknown 725010224251823162 782

Trials started per year

2021
31
2022
104
2023
118
2024
139
2025
99
2026
113
2027
3
2028
1
2097
3

Conditions studied, by phase

ConditionEarly Phase 1Phase 1Phase 1/2Phase 2Phase 2/3Phase 3Phase 4Not applicableUnknownTotal
Acute Kidney Injury 927131103072107444782 1594
Sepsis 461582352 99
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic 2212552451 92
Critical Illness 244451751 87
Renal Insufficiency 3132322043 77
Shock, Septic 131442219 54
Kidney Failure, Chronic 22351018 40
COVID-19 13121520 33
Heart Failure 21111016 31
Kidney Diseases 1223518 31

Most active sponsors

#SponsorTrialsPhase 3
1Assiut University300
2Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris195
3Yonsei University180
4Hospices Civils de Lyon170
5Seoul National University Hospital172
6Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati141
7National Taiwan University Hospital141
8Peking University First Hospital141
9University Hospital, Ghent121
10Ain Shams University110

Most studied interventions

#InterventionTrials
1Saline Solution47
2Sodium Chloride39
3Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy31
4Standard of Care27
5Sodium Bicarbonate19
6Blood Specimen Collection18
7Renal Replacement Therapy18
8Cardiac Surgical Procedures14
9Acetylcysteine13
10Furosemide13

Evidence

Results reported
12.7%102 of 801 completed
Published
19.2%154 of 801 completed
Primary endpoint met
19.7%12 of 61 analyses
Median months to report
16.5

Documents disclosed

Protocol available
95
Statistical analysis plan
90
PubMed citations
733

Trial profile

Median enrollment
110
Median duration
24months
Countries
85
Study sites
3380

Who is enrolled

Adults
1509
Children
222
Older adults
1467
Healthy volunteers
134

Median enrollment by phase

Early Phase 1
90
Phase 1
16
Phase 1/2
70
Phase 2
90
Phase 2/3
76
Phase 3
122
Phase 4
90
Not applicable
100
Unknown
150

Where trials run

United States
360
China
151
France
148
Germany
103
Canada
80
Turkey (Türkiye)
75
United Kingdom
71
Italy
70
South Korea
62
Egypt
53

Busiest cities

#CityCountryTrials
1SeoulSouth Korea53
2BeijingChina50
3BostonUnited States47
4BaltimoreUnited States44
5BirminghamUnited States42
6CincinnatiUnited States40
7LondonUnited Kingdom39
8DallasUnited States37
9HoustonUnited States36
10New YorkUnited States34

Terminations

Terminated
99
Withdrawn
56
Suspended
4
Stopped for recruitment
2.4%39 of 1594 trials

Stated reasons

Other / unclear
75
Recruitment
39
Funding
18
COVID-19
7
Lack of efficacy
7
Regulatory
6
Business decision
4
Safety
3

Reasons are grouped from the sponsor's own wording with a rule-based classifier; the original text is shown below.

Recently stopped

TrialStatusStated reasonStopped
NCT04598516 Withdrawn Withdrawn delay 2099-11-01
NCT04603261 Withdrawn Withdrawn delayed 2099-11-01
NCT04597892 Withdrawn Withdrawn delay 2099-03-01
NCT05114057 Withdrawn Withdrawn Inadequate funding 2029-07-01
NCT07198906 Withdrawn Withdrawn no Inclusion 2029-04-01
NCT04898010 Suspended Suspended On hold while seeking funding. 2027-10-31
NCT07108634 Withdrawn Withdrawn Funded by company allocated elsewhere. 2027-03-31
NCT03974347 Withdrawn Withdrawn Logistical problmens, collisions with other studies 2026-09-01
NCT05921695 Terminated Terminated Terminated due to protocol amendment: intervention window changed from entire ED stay to first 2h after ED admission. Revised protocol will be registered separately. 2026-06-01
NCT06374797 Terminated Terminated The study was stopped due to imbalance in randomization stratification of severe patients. 2026-04-06

Trial records