Active clinical trials for "Arterial Occlusive Diseases"

A prospective case-control study was performed to investigate the effect of iloprost on the intraoperative flow volume in diabetic and non-diabetic patients as well as the effect of peripheral neuropathy in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) undergoing arterial reconstruction (primary endpoint). 100 patients undergoing femoral artery reconstruction or femorodistal bypass surgery were included. Prior to surgery, peripheral nerve conduction velocity was measured. Blood flow volume at the common femoral artery was assessed using a Doppler flowmeter (Sono TT FlowLab; ) before reconstruction, prior to the intraarterial application of 3000ng of iloprost and 5 and 10 minutes afterwards. Peripheral resistance units (PRU) were calculated as a function of mean systemic arterial pressure (MAP) and flow volume (VF): PRU = MAP (mmHg) / VF (ml/min).

Critical limb ischemia is a condition where the blood circulation in the limbs, in most cases the legs, is decreased so that pain and non healing wounds ensue. Mostly, this is a sequel of arteriosclerosis and/or diabetes. If surgical and other methods for the improvement of blood supply for the leg have failed or are not possible, most of these patients will proceed to amputation of the leg. Bone marrow contains cells which can induce and augment the growth of new, small arteries called collateral arteries. It has been shown in animals and in some case series that the transplantation of a concentrate of the patient's own bone marrow with stem cells into the ischemic limb can improve the blood circulation via the induction of collateral growth. However, it is not known if this bone-marrow stem cell induced collateral growth is sufficient to avoid otherwise necessary amputations. Therefore, we conduct a study to compare the efficiency of concentrated bone marrow cells injected into the critically ischemic limb compared to a placebo procedure where only saline is injected. We think that the transplantation of autologous bone marrow will reduce the number of necessary leg amputations, reduce pain and induce wound healing. In this investigation, patients with limb threatening ischemia are randomly allocated either to the bone marrow group or to the placebo group. Patients in the bone marrow group will have their bone marrow harvested under sedation, and the bone marrow cells are concentrated. The cell concentrate will then be injected directly into the muscle of the diseased leg. Patients in the placebo group will undergo sedation as well but no bone marrow harvest is done, and saline is injected into the ischemic leg. The procedure will require about 1.5-2 hours, and the subjects will be admitted to a participating vascular Centre. Monthly examinations up to three months after the bone-marrow or placebo procedure are done. After the follow-up of three months, the rate of death and amputations and the wound healing process are compared between groups. Adverse and serious adverse events will be recorded during this time period. Diagnostic studies will be obtained to measure blood flow in the treated leg during the follow up period and include skin oxygen measurements, pressure recordings in the leg and arteriography. Also, quality of life, pain and wound healing will be assessed. After completion of the three months study participation, subjects who have been treated with placebo will be able to receive open-label bone marrow transplantation therapy.

Along with the improvement of living standard, the prevalence of Lower extremity arterial occlusive disease (LEAOD) is also increasing, which has become an important cause of lower extremity amputation and greatly affected the patients' life quality. Currently, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), including balloon dilatation and stent implantation, has been regarded as the most widely applied and accepted treatment for LEAOD. The therapeutic effects of lower extremity interventional treatment, varied in different reports. It was reported that the therapeutic effects were influenced by some traditional risk factors, including age, gender, smoking, and so on. More risk factors are still unknown. The difference of therapeutic effects, the endpoint events were compared between interventional and conventional treatment group to analyze the effect of interventional treatment on LEAOD and explore its risk factors.

To assess the safety and performance of the VaSecure drug-coated PTA balloon catheter in the treatment of patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia (CLTI) of the lower limb below the knee (BTK)

Conducted in Chinese healthy adult volunteers,the study aims to observe the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic of single-dose administration of different doses of Alprostadil Liposome for Injection as well as to confirm the safety dose range.

A Prospective, Multi-center, Single-Arm Clinical Trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the GodenFlow Peripheral Stent System manufactured by Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., LTD. for lower limb artery stenosis or occlusion diseases.

Magnesium exerts analgesic effects in several animal pain models and in patients affected by acute postoperative pain and chronic pain of neuropathic origin. There is no evidence that magnesium can modulate pain in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). We describe the protocol of a single-center randomized double-blind clinical trial aimed at assessing the efficacy of oral magnesium supplementation in controlling severe pain in patients with advanced PAOD.

This project is one of four components of a thematic project that aims to evaluate the use of ultrasound in regional blocks, called "Use of ultrasound in regional blocks and injections for the treatment of acute and chronic pain." It will evaluate quantitative and qualitative control of ischemic pain in the lower limbs in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease through continuous sciatic nerve block by perineural catheter, popliteal approach, compared to systemic analgesia based on opioids.

This is a prospective, open lable studies conducted in 115 hospital to compare between thromboectomy and Recombinant Tisue Plasminogen Activator only to evaluate the eficacy and safety of endovascular treatment in basilar artery occlusion stroke patients

The spectrum of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) ranges from exhibiting no symptoms to limb threatening gangrene. The number of patients living with it is rising steadily owing to increased life expectancy, obesity, diabetes, and tobacco consumption. Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is the terminal and the most serious stage of PAD in which blood flow to the lower extremity does not meet metabolic demands of the tissues at rest. The diagnosis is mainly clinical and patients are presented with rest pain, minimal tissue loss or frank gangrene. Revascularization strategies include endovascular procedures and surgical bypass.Endovascular therapy has evolved as an attractive, minimally invasive method of revascularization especially in the more frequently encountered patients with medical and anatomical contraindications to surgical revascularization. Antegrade approach is the standard approach in infrainguinal arterial occlusive disease,however, failure occurs in about 20% of infrainguinal attempts.Retrograde approach is used as a backup technique in failed cases.