Active clinical trials for "Peripheral Arterial Disease"

This trial is a First in Human early feasibility study of a novel atherectomy device to treat peripheral artery disease. The trial is a prospective, single arm design that will enroll 10 patients at 1 - 2 sites. Patients will be followed at 30 days and 6 months to evaluate vessel patency following treatment. Safety will be assessed by monitoring adverse events throughout the study. Safety and Efficacy will be evaluated by comparing study results to established performance criteria,

Prospective interventional study. The aim is to analyze the effect of usual ongoing treatments over microvascular cutaneous response to galvanic current applications (CIV: current induced vasodilatation) with tissue vitality (TiVi) system on the forearm of subjects referred for ultrasound investigations due to suspicion of peripheral disease. Hypothesis is that the use of aspirin (even at low dose) abolishes the response. This test could make it possible to detect the functional effects of low dose aspirin without using biological tests. A routine clinical application could be to use this CIV to verify adherence to aspirin.

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis, causing patients to be at high risk of major adverse cardiovascular and limb events. Therefore, single antiplatelet therapy is recommended when patients are symptomatic or have undergone revascularization. Rivaroxaban (2.5 mg twice a day) in addition to Aspirin (100 mg once a day) has shown to be effective in reducing morbidity and mortality from major cardiovascular and limb events in patients with stable peripheral or carotid artery disease compared to Aspirin alone. Although a higher rate of major bleeding was detected, the incidence of fatal or critical organ bleedings was not increased. Endothelial dysfunction is one of the first signs of atherosclerosis and is related to major cardiovascular events. The level of vascular endothelial dysfunction can be measured using the carotid artery reactivity (CAR) test. The investigators hypothesized that a combination of low-dose rivaroxaban and antiplatelet therapy would improve endothelial function in PAD patients. The investigators aim to study the effectiveness of this combination therapy in improving vascular endothelial function in patients with stable or symptomatic PAD. Therefore the investigators will study two clinical cohorts of lower extremity PAD patients (n=159) with intermittent claudication (group A: Fontaine stages 1-2) or critical limb ischemia with pain at rest and/or foot ulcers (group B: Fontaine stages 3-4) who have an indication for single antiplatelet therapy. Aspirin 100mg once a day + 2.5 mg rivaroxaban twice a day will be given during 3 months, preceded by a run-in period of Aspirin alone (100 mg once a day) as reference. The change in proportion of patients with CAR-constriction from baseline (Aspirin alone) to 3 months after adding low dose rivaroxaban will be compared for both study groups (A and B).

The NVS Therapy is being studied to evaluate the safety and efficacy to facilitate retention of acute luminal gain, leading to acute hemodynamic improvement in superficial femoral and popliteal arteries with reference vessel diameters between 4.0 and 7.0 mm and lesion lengths less than or equal to 56mm.

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) constitutes a major public health burden. The incidence of PAD increases with age and is associated with other comorbid cardiovascular disorders. Atherosclerosis which underlies PAD is associated with increased arterial stiffness and an enhanced inflammatory state as evidenced by increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and markers. One the earliest signs of cardiovascular disease is endothelial dysfunction which is characterized by a decreased vasodilatory capacity of the vascular endothelium and this lesion predates the development of clinical atherosclerosis. Endothelial dysfunction has been shown to be widely prevalent in PAD. It is postulated that endothelial dysfunction is due to enhanced sympathetic drive, diminished parasympathetic drive, chronic inflammatory state all of which leads to reduced nitric oxide synthase activity in the vascular endothelium with subsequent loss of vasodilatory capacity. Studies have shown endothelial dysfunction to be reversible with pharmaco-therapeutic interventions, though these interventions are associated with their own adverse effects. Stimulation of Vagal nerve increases the parasympathetic activity while suppressing sympathetic drive, decreases inflammation and enhancing nitric oxide synthase activity. Recent experimental and clinical data suggest that low-level tragus nerve stimulation (by stimulating the auricular branch of the vagus nerve located at the tragus of the external ear) may produce the same desired neuromodulator effect compared to vagus nerve stimulation. It is however unknown if Transcutaneous Vagal Stimulation (TVS) would lead to improved endothelial function as measured by flow mediated dilatation (FMD) and laser speckle contrast imaging(LSCI), a non-invasive method of measuring endothelial function or decrease in arterial stiffness as measured by Pulse Wave Analysis (PWA), in patients with PAD. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of TVS on endothelial dysfunction as measured by FMD & LSCI and arterial stiffness. Study population will include patients with established diagnosis of PAD. After performing baseline FMD, LSCI and PWA patients will be randomized to TVS and sham stimulation with cross over. The patient randomized to TVS stimulation will obtain stimulation for 1 hour followed by measurement of FMD,LSCI and PWA. There will be a washout period of at least 24 hours with patient crossing over to the other arms thus serving as their self-control.

Prevalence of PAD and osteoporosis (OP) both get higher with age. Clinical and epidemiologic evidence have showed an increased cardiovascular risk in OP and bone loss and fragility fractures in patient with cardiovascular disease. This study will examine the relationship between vascular disease in legs and sBMD and vBMD at trabecular and cortical sites and bone microarchitecture.

This is a prospective, multicenter, real-world, registry study, which aims to observe the intermediate and long-term efficacy of different endovascular treatments for TASC C&D aortoiliac occlusive disease.

The aim of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of PAD treatment by revascularization with new cobalt-chromium sirolimus stent implantation, which is expandable on balloon PERS (CoCr SES) compared to cobalt-chromium balloon-expandable (Neptun C) stent (CoCr BMS) in patients with symptomatic iliac arteries disease requiring revascularization.

Microbiota has been associated with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, heart failure). In animal models, the gut microbiota produces pro-inflammatory proteoglycans that increase the extent of myocardial infarction, reduced by treatment with probiotics (Lactobacillus). TMAO, a blood metabolite directly dependent on the gut microbiota is related to atherosclerotic plaque instability and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in humans. Recent data demonstrate that blood levels of TMAO directly correlate with the risk of major MACE and mortality in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the association between gut microbiota and TMAO serum levels and MACE and major adverse limb events (MALE) in patients with PAD and chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) requiring a procedure of endovascular revascularization. The main questions it aims to answer are: association between gut microbiota and TMAO serum levels and MALE after lower extremity revascularization. association between gut microbiota and TMAO serum levels and MACE after lower extremity revascularization. Patients with CLTI requiring lower extremity endovascular revascularization will undergo stool sampling for determination of gut microbiota and blood sampling for the dosage of circulating TMAO before the endovascular procedure. Incidence of MALE and MACE will be collected in a 24-months follow-up and will be associated with gut microbiota and TMAO serum levels.

The study will evaluate, in a controlled setting, the efficacy and safety of the intravascular lithotripsy using Shockwave™ M5+ Peripheral Intravascular Lithotripsy Catheter to facilitate delivery of aortic large-bore devices in iliac calcified access.