Home dialysis device gets safety check in ongoing study
NCT ID NCT04198012
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study allowed 25 people with end-stage kidney disease to keep using the HemoCare hemodialysis system at home while the device was being reviewed for market approval. The main goal was to track safety events like side effects or device problems. Participants needed a trained care partner to help with treatments.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- HemoCare™ Hemodialysis System (a device for home hemodialysis)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could help make home hemodialysis more accessible for people with kidney failure, offering more flexibility and convenience.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study focused on continued access and safety monitoring, not a test of new benefits. The device still requires a trained care partner and may not suit everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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25 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2019
- Finished
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Apr 2024
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Completed DEKA Protocol DKPL 00057 001 and are qualified to enter the study based on the assessment of the Investigator. * Are willing to comply and capable of complying with the study requirements for therapy with the HemoCare™ Hemodialysis System. * Have a trained study care partner able to support subject for all at-home study treatments. * Subject and care partner can read and understand English and provide written informed consent. * Have a stable functioning vascular access as judged by the treating physician. Exclusion Criteria: * Have a current self-reported pregnancy or are actively planning to become pregnant within the next 12 months, lactating, or not using medically acceptable means of contraception during the study. * Have any any other clinically significant medical disease or condition or subject responsibility that, in the Investigator's opinion, may interfere with a subject's (and/or care partner's) ability to give informed consent, adhere to the protocol, interfere with assessment of the investigational product (IP), or serve as a contraindication to the subject's participation in the study. * Have a significant psychiatric disorder or mental disability that could interfere with the subject's ability to provide informed consent and/or comply with study procedures. * Are participating or planning to participate in any other interventional studies except DKPL-00057-001.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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DCI North Brunswick
North Brunswick, New Jersey, 08902, United States
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Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Knoxville, Tennessee, 37920, United States
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Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, United States
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The Rogosin Institute
New York, New York, 11021, United States
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University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi, 39213, United States
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Wellbound North Austin
Austin, Texas, 78758, United States
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Wellbound South Austin
Austin, Texas, 78744, United States
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