Green, Darren
Vassallo, Diana
Handley, Kelly
Ives, Natalie
Wheatley, Keith
Chrysochou, Constantina
Hegarty, Janet
Wright, Julian
Moss, Jon
Patel, Rajan K.
Deighan, Chris
Webster, John
Rowe, Peter
Carr, Sue
Cross, Jenny
O’Driscoll, Jamie
Sharma, Raj
Mark, Patrick
Kalra, Philip A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medtronic (Not applicable)
Kidney Research UK (Not applicable)
Medical research council UK (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 19 December 2017
Accepted: 30 May 2019
First Online: 14 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for ASTRAL was granted by the West Midlands Multicentre Research Ethics Committee, UK and the ethics committee relevant to each individual participating study centre. Ethical permission for the echocardiographic sub-study was obtained separately. Patient consent for participation in this sub-study was obtained separately from consent for the main trial, and included a specific patient information sheet and written consent form.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Patrick Mark is an Editorial Board Member for BMC Nephrology.