Tongue Diagnosis in Chronic Kidney Disease

NCT ID: NCT04559958

Last Updated: 2020-09-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-09-01

Study Completion Date

2020-08-31

Brief Summary

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The Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System (ATDS) was developed to capture tongue images and extract features reliably to assist the diagnosis of traditional chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners.This project will employ the ATDS verified to extract the tongue features of patients with chronic kidney disease. A TCM indices derived through the non-intrusive tongue diagnosis procedure can provide valuable information for clinical doctors to analyze the current status of a patient and dynamically schedule a treatment plan, facilitating early detection and diagnosis of chronic kidney disease.

Detailed Description

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global financial and medical burden, because its high morbidity and mortality. Tongue diagnosis is an important diagnostic tool in traditional Chinese medicine. However, tongue diagnosis often biased by subjective judgements and environmental factors. The automatic tongue diagnosis system can noninvasively capture tongue images, automatically correct any lighting and color deviation and analyze tongue manifestations.

This protocol is a cross-sectional, case-controlled observational study investigating the tongue features of non-dialysis CKD and end-stage renal disease patients by using the noninvasive ATDS. CKD patients who meets inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled. Participants will be divided into 3 groups according to their renal function and accept dialysis or not, including a non-dialysis CKD group, end stage renal disease (ESRD) group and control group. Tongue images will be captured and 9 tongue features including tongue shape, tongue color, fur thickness, fur color, saliva, tongue fissure, ecchymosis, tooth mark, and red dots will be extracted and analyzed by ATDS.

This protocol aims to apply noninvasive ATDS to analyze tongue features of CKD patients.

Conditions

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Chronic Kidney Diseases

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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non-dialysis CKD group

Participants with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \<60 mL/min/1.73 m2 more than three months and without regular dialysis will be enrolled in non-dialysis CKD group.

tongue image

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

ESRD group

Participants with eGFR ≤15 mL/min/1.73 m2 and underwent regular dialysis will be recruited in ESRD group.

tongue image

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

control group

Participants with eGFR ≧60 mL/min/1.73 m2 and without evidence of kidney damage such as albuminuria or abnormal findings on renal imaging will be enrolled in control group.

tongue image

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

Interventions

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tongue image

capture tongue images by Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

The patients will be included if they meet the following criteria:

1. age over 20 years old
2. The person who volunteered to participate this research and signed the agreement of institutional review board.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pregnant women
2. Patients with acute infection
3. The person who has cancer with brain metastasis and present with cognitive dysfunction such as dementia or delirium
4. unable to protrude the tongue stably
5. Patients with risk of temporomandibular joint dislocation
6. Those who did not sign the agreement of institutional review board
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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yu-chiang hung, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Locations

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Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Kaohsiung City, , Taiwan

Site Status

Countries

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Taiwan

References

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Other Identifiers

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CMPRG8H0691

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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