As well as taking part in the RaDaR Rare Disease Registry, we recommend that patients who are interested in research visit the NIHR’s new Be Part of Research website which allows you to search for studies by condition and/or location.
Studies that are being led or endorsed by Clinicians involved in RaDaR are advertised on the Patient Information pages for each condition.
As of 1st July 2019 there are 23,150 UK patients in RaDaR from 100 hospitals. In June there were 301 new recruits. Recruits by cohort and hospital can found below.
The draft of the Renal Association’s Clinical Practice Guideline on Pregnancy and Renal Disease is now available for review.
Please send any comments in the body of an email or as a text document, referring to the guideline/page/line in question (not as tracked changes) to Melanie.Dillon@renalregistry.nhs.uk by Friday 28th June.
RaDaR is hiring! New Bristol-based role to help with re-consenting and NURTuRE data checking.
We are pleased to announce that RaDaR is now open to a new condition – BK Nephropathy.
No new approvals are needed to start recruiting these patients.
Detailed instructions on the inclusion criteria and data entry are available to download from https://tinyurl.com/BK-Neph-data or on request from Melanie.Dillon@renalregistry.nhs.uk
There are trials for adult patients with primary hyperoxaluria types 1, 2 & 3 and enteric hyperoxaluria, which are all recruiting or about to start. Here are the key inclusion criteria:
•Adult patient with PH1: eGFR>45 and 24h U Oxalate >700 umol/24h
•Adult patient with PH1 or 2: eGFR>30 and 24h U Oxalate >600 umol/24h
•Adult patient with PH1,2 or 3: eGFR between 15 and 90 and relatively high urine oxalate (likely to give plasma oxalate>10 umol/l but it is not necessary to measure this)
•Adult with enteric hyperoxaluria: eGFR>30 and 24h U Oxalate >550 umol/24h
These are with investigational products from Alnylam, Dicerna, Oxthera and Allena respectively.
Enquiries will be directed to the units conducting these trials. We are also happy to see patients as a one-off or on-going or just discuss details of these trials with patients or clinicians. If you are a patient or relative of someone with one of these conditions, please ask your doctor about these trials, or contact Melanie.dillon@renalregistry.nhs.uk
West Cumberland Hospital became the 100th site to open to recruitment for the RaDaR rare disease registry in April 2019.
The Fabry Rare Disease Group have developed a Diagnosis Algorithm to help with the identification of new patients.
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) are hosting an event on Rare diseases and the kidney on the 8th May 2019 at Salford University, Media City Campus. This high quality meeting will bring experts from a wide variety of rare disease areas together to present the latest updates and developments in rare diseases.
The meeting will be of relevance to medical students, trainees and consultants as it provides a unique opportunity to keep up to date with latest clinical developments, opportunities and research being conducted and MDT and patient partnerships for these conditions.
Topics include:
To ensure that RaDaR is compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulations, which came into force on May 25th 2018, two Privacy Statements have been produced to cover both Rare Renal and RaDaR. The documents detail what data is collected from patients and how it stored, linked and accessed.
