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Minnesota KPMP CKD and Resilient Diabetes Recruiting Site
Recruiting
The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) is a research study. Our goal is learn more about kidney injury and kidney disease. By studying your kidneys, we may learn more about why chronic kidney disease happens and how to treat it more effectively or even how to prevent it. Or participants have had diabetes for many years and have not clinical signs of chronic kidney disease. By studying your kidneys, we may learn more about the factors that help protect you from kidney disease. KPMP will last for at least 10 years.
Male or Female
18 years and over
Inclusion Criteria:
• at least 18 years old
• diagnosis acute or chronic kidney (renal) disease with diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2) OR associated with hypertension
• persistent kidney damage based on specific lab values at least 3 months apart (study staff will review)
Exclusion Criteria:
• Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m2
• any allergic reaction to iodinated contrast
• receiving chemotherapy or radiation to treat cancer
• transplant recipient (includes solid transplant and bone marrow)
• unwilling to receive blood transfusion (if needed)
• women who are pregnant
Procedure: Kidney Biopsy
Kidney, Prostate & Urinary
Clinics and Surgery Center (CSC), Acute Kidney Failure, Acute Kidney Insufficiency, Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Kidney Disease