Freely Filtered 061: Bicarb in Transplant

Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast

Bicarbonate did not slow the loss of GFR in this well done Swiss, single-blind study of transplant patients.

The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Nayan Arora

Swapnil Hiremath

Pirya Yenebere

With Special Guest:

Nav Tangri nephrologist and epidemiology at the University of Manitoba

Editor:

Nayan Arora

Show Notes:

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The London study that kicked it all off!

de Brito-Ashurst, I., Varagunam, M., Raftery, M. J., & Yaqoob, M. M. (2009). Bicarbonate supplementation slows progression of CKD and improves nutritional status. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN, 20(9), 2075–2084.

The multi center (but unblinded) UBI Study with mortality benefit!

Di Iorio, B. R., Bellasi, A., Raphael, K. L., Santoro, D., Aucella, F., Garofano, L., Ceccarelli, M., Di Lullo, L., Capolongo, G., Di Iorio, M., Guastaferro, P., Capasso, G., & UBI Study Group. (2019). Treatment of metabolic acidosis with sodium bicarbonate delays progression of chronic kidney disease: the UBI Study. Journal of Nephrology, 32(6), 989–1001.

The BiCARB Study: Double blinded and negative

BiCARB study group. (2020). Clinical and cost-effectiveness of oral sodium bicarbonate therapy for older patients with chronic kidney disease and low-grade acidosis (BiCARB): a pragmatic randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. BMC Medicine, 18(1), 91.

The initial Veverimer Study

Wesson, D. E., Mathur, V., Tangri, N., Stasiv, Y., Parsell, D., Li, E., Klaerner, G., & Bushinsky, D. A. (2019). Long-term safety and efficacy of veverimer in patients with metabolic acidosis in chronic kidney disease: a multicentre, randomised, blinded, placebo-controlled, 40-week extension. In The Lancet (Vol. 394, Issue 10196, pp. 396–406). doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31388-1

The Valor CKD trial is still unpublished. But here is the press release.

VALOR-CKD design manuscript

The study of the night: Sodium bicarbonate for kidney transplant recipients with metabolic acidosis in Switzerland: a multicentre, randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial

NephJC | PubMed | Lancet

Alkali with normal bicarb? Sure, take a look at: Goraya, N., Simoni, J., Jo, C., & Wesson, D. E. (2012). Dietary acid reduction with fruits and vegetables or bicarbonate attenuates kidney injury in patients with a moderately reduced glomerular filtration rate due to hypertensive nephropathy. Kidney International, 81(1), 86–93.

Metforminator!

The BASE Trial: Raphael, K. L., Isakova, T., Ix, J. H., Raj, D. S., Wolf, M., Fried, L. F., Gassman, J. J., Kendrick, C., Larive, B., Flessner, M. F., Mendley, S. R., Hostetter, T. H., Block, G. A., Li, P., Middleton, J. P., Sprague, S. M., Wesson, D. E., & Cheung, A. K. (2020). A Randomized Trial Comparing the Safety, Adherence, and Pharmacodynamics Profiles of Two Doses of Sodium Bicarbonate in CKD: the BASE Pilot Trial. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN, 31(1), 161–174.

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