SAfety of Regional Citrate Anticoagulation (SARCA Study)
Completed · Phase 3 · NCT05339139
Conditions: Acute Kidney Injury, ESRD
At a glance
- Research payments reported, 2025
- $738,094
- U.S. investigators named
- 10
- Sites paid
- 10
- Planned or actual enrollment
- 32
About the trial
- Sponsor
- Fresenius Medical Care North America
- Tested
- Dialysis (combination_product)
- Dates
- Started 2023-10-17; completion 2025-06-30
- Results posted
- Not yet
This is an Open-label, Prospective, Multicenter Study to Assess the SAfety of Regional Citrate Anticoagulation Delivered by the multiFiltratePRO system in Adult Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (SARCA Study).
From ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-11. Full record, eligibility and contacts (opens in a new tab)
Industry funding
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. reported $738,094 in research payments for this study in 2025 (67 payments).
Research payments usually go to hospitals, universities and research sites to run a study, not to the investigators personally. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
U.S. investigators named on this study
- Fatima Ayub, MD Nephrology (Kidney) · Little Rock, AR
- Nithin Karakala, MD Nephrology (Kidney) · Little Rock, AR
- Arnaldo F. Lopez-ruiz, M.D. Critical Care Medicine · Orlando, FL
- Matthew J. Trainor, M.D. Nephrology (Kidney) · Worcester, MA
- Balazs Szamosfalvi, M.D. Nephrology (Kidney) · Ann Arbor, MI
- Junior Uduman, MD Internal Medicine · Detroit, MI
- John J. Dillon, M.D. Nephrology (Kidney) · Rochester, MN
- Gonzalo Matzumura Umemoto, MD Nephrology (Kidney) · Saint Louis, MO
- Catherine C. Wells, NP Nurse Practitioners · Jackson, MS
- Anitha Vijayan, MD Nephrology (Kidney) · Murray, UT
Clinicians the company named as principal investigators in its Open Payments reports.
Sites paid to run it
- Primary Children's Hospital, UT $259,334
- Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield Hospital, MI $102,423
- Adventhealth Orlando, FL $86,457
- Mayo Clinic Rochester $71,597
- Washington University $61,451
- University of Mississippi Med Center, MS $48,984
- University of Massachusetts $34,797
- University of Michigan Health System, MI $30,797
- University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, AR $24,236
- Biomedical Research Foundation $18,019
Sources: CMS Open Payments research payments (program year 2025) and ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine.