Active clinical trials for "Varicose Ulcer"

The laser emits an infrared light that heats the skin and underlying tissues with the purpose of temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain, as well as stiffness associated with arthritis. The laser also causes a temporary increase in blood flow. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether laser therapy can provide pain relief and speed the healing of venous leg ulcers.

This study is a prospective, non-randomized, multicenter, single-arm, clinical study to evaluate the performance, safety and efficacy of the GORE® VIAFORT Vascular Stent for treatment of symptomatic iliofemoral venous obstruction.

CACIPLIQ20® is currently a class III CE marked medical device available in various European and non-European countries, and currently primarily used in managing hard-to-heal wounds. This study is a prospective and standardized recording of patients' data followed in real-life conditions to appreciate the benefits of a therapeutic strategy including CACIPLIQ20® use. It also aims at collecting data to follow-up the device's efficacy and safety and estimate its cost-effectiveness.

Multi-center, prospective,randomized controlled study on the speed of healing, life quality and cost-effectiveness of the treatment with a blue light medical device (EmoLED) versus existing Standards Of Care (SOC) for patients with leg ulcers. The aim of LUCE - "Leg Ulcers Standards of Care Enhancement" clinical trial is to verify the clinical efficacy of a portable battery-powered device blue LEDs based. This study aims to compare the existing SOC (consisting in two visits per week) to a protocol that requires only one visit per week, during which the EmoLED treatment is administered in addition to the current therapy. It is expected to register a difference in efficacy between EmoLED Group and SOC Group, in terms of "healing rate", intended as a reduction of the wound area, but also as a progress, in a broad sense, of the overall clinical situation of the lesion, in terms of pain and quality of life. -Endpoint- The primary endpoint is the comparison of the outcomes in terms of healing rate of lesions treated with SOC (SOC Group) versus lesions treated with EmoLED (EmoLED Group), on week 16th. Patients 80 patients will be recruited (40 patients per group), following these inclusion/exclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: Subjects suffering from venous and mixed skin ulcers; Presence of a lesion < 100 cm² of area and < 1 cm in depth; Men and women ≥ 18 years old; The patient must be able to understand the aims of the clinical trial and provide informed consent in writing; Chronicity of the lesion: at least 8 weeks. Exclusion criteria: Patients who participated in clinical trials about skin ulcers healing during the previous month; Patients who are not able to understand the aims of the trial; Patients with pressure ulcers; Patients with diabetic foot ulcers; Patients with circumferential leg ulcer (due to the difficulties in analysing the pictures); Patients with clearly infected ulcers or with systemic infection; Patients with ulcers caused by critical ischemia; Patients with a self-harm past that can purposely alter the process of healing; Patients with psychiatric disorders; Pregnancy or breast feeding; Patients with neoplasms or other diseases involving the use of cytostatic or immunosuppressive drugs; Patients with limited lifespan; Patients with photosensitizing illnesses or that take photosensitizing drugs. All inclusion and exclusion criteria must be satisfied before recruitment. Any concomitant phar-macological therapy must be maintained. -Medical and surgical procedures- The lesions will be cleansed with saline solution and, if necessary, surgical debridement will be performed with the most suitable method. At this point, if patient is included in EmoLED Group, the EmoLED treatment starts. After EmoLED application (EmoLED Group) or after cleansing (SOC Group), a polyurethane foam dressing will be applied on the lesion. In case of clinical signs of infection, a silver dressing will be applied. Then an elasto-compressive double layer dressing of the limb with cohesive fixation bielastic la-tex-free bandage will be carried out. The treatment with EmoLED, in addition to the SOC, will be performed during each visit for 60 seconds on each 5 cm diameter sub-area of the selected lesion. In case of multiple lesions matching with both inclusion and exclusion criteria, they will be all treated following the same protocol, depending on the group to which the patient belongs; in this case the Principal Investigator will fill out a data-collection form and take pictures just of the le-sion with the wider area. -Follow up procedure- The patient is called upon to go to the follow-up check after 4 weeks from the healing or, other-wise, from the end of the trial (16 weeks). The follow-up visit will be used to confirm the occurred healing and verify the absence of relapses and/or undesirable effects (if the wound appeared completely healed) or to value the healing progress for the unhealed lesions.

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the impact that the NanoSALV wound dressing can have on managing severe chronic wounds and feasibility for patients, providers, and health systems in different health care settings (community care, continuing care and in-patient care). The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the cost-savings of using NanoSALV? Do care providers perceive NanoSALV to be better, worse or the same as the standard of care in terms of usability and efficiency? Does NanoSALV increase autonomy and competence of wound self-management for care providers/patients? Were patients more satisfied, less satisfied or just as satisfied with NanoSALV compared to the standard of Care? Does NanoSALV reduce healing time for chronic wounds compared to standard of care? The sequence and duration of the trial is as follows: Required data will be collected at enrollment to provide a baseline (Day 0) measure. The patient will receive standard of care treatment for four weeks with dressing changes as per the standard care pathway. In the following four weeks the patient will receive the NanoSALV dressing treatment and dressing changes done every 48 - 72 hours as required. Wound assessments will be done weekly with wound images captured by Aranz Medical's Silhouette Star 3D medical camera that digitally takes measurements. A patient satisfaction survey will be collected post-control and post-intervention periods One week after completing the study the patient/surrogate will be contacted or a survey link will be sent to them regarding adverse events and to see what wound dressing they continued to use. Semi-structured interviews and observations will be done with care providers/patients and healthcare professionals in the control period to explore the perspectives on the current state of chronic wound management, and in the intervention period to evaluate the perceptions on the usability of the intervention.

The purpose of the PULSE study are the followingL A.To perform post market clinical follow up (PMCF) on safety and efficacy: Safety: To confirm transient short-terms side effects and verify long-term/outstanding risks. Efficacy: To confirm the performance of PLASOMA, i.e. the beneficial effect on bacterial load. B. Determine the effect of PLASOMA on wound surface area. A secondary purpose is to examine the beneficial effects of PLASOMA on wound healing and to perform a health technology assessment (HTA). This clinical study will be an open label two-armed randomized controlled trial (RCT), performed at at least three sites (multi-center) in the Netherlands. The two arms are: Control group: Standard wound care for 12 weeks or until healing, whichever occurs first; Treatment group: Standard wound care + PLASOMA treatment for 12 weeks or until healing, whichever occurs first. The frequency of PLASOMA treatment will be determined by the treating (para)medical professional based on the number of visits they would schedule for the standard wound care at the study site. For all study subjects, the treatment frequency will be at least once per week (in order to have enough treatments for safety evaluation) and should not exceed once per day. Follow up (FU) will be performed at three timepoints for both arms: FU1: 2 weeks after end treatment period FU2: 12 weeks after end treatment period FU3: 12 months after start treatment.

This project adopts a prospective clinical trial study to compare and evaluate the efficacy of local transplantation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells combined with silver ion dressing and simple silver ion dressing in the treatment of venous lower extremity ulcer wounds. To improve the healing rate and quality of life of patients.

A Randomized, Multicenter, Open Label Study Comparing Omeza Combination Therapy with Standard of Care to Standard of Care alone for Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers over the course of 4 weeks

The aim of this clinical trial is to investigate the efficacy (by monitoring the wound size reduction of CVUs) and safety (by monitoring adverse events [AEs]) of three dose groups of the investigational medicinal product (IMP) allo-APZ2-CVU, topically administered on target wounds of patients with CVU compared to placebo.

This study is designed to examine beneficial effects of PLASOMA treatment compared to the standard of care on chronic venous leg ulcers (VLU) that match the size of the plasma area of the pad. The intention is that the data obtained with this study will be used to: Demonstrate comparative performance of PLASOMA (for two treatment frequencies) Provide evidence for health technology assessments (HTA) of PLASOMA