Active clinical trials for "Peripheral Vascular Diseases"

This study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous Vascular Repair Cells (VRC) for patients with peripheral arterial disease as a treatment for critical limb ischemia. The double-blind study is expected to enroll 150 patients, randomized into two patient groups. The treatment group will receive intramuscular (IM) injections of the VRCs into the affected limb; the control group will receive intramuscular injections with an electrolyte solution (without cells). Both groups will receive the standard of care appropriate for their medical condition.

Diabetes is a very common illness. Approximately 4% of British Columbians have diabetes. However, at least 20% of people admitted to acute care hospitals have diabetes. People with diabetes are at a higher risk for developing complications after surgery including infection and prolonged hospital stay, especially if blood sugars are high. The researchers are testing a Diabetes Action Team to see if their involvement in patient care after surgery improves blood glucose control, duration of stay in hospital, and infection rates.

One important clinical challenge in older individuals is maintaining mobility in the absence of pain. Peripheral arterial disease affects up to 12% of adults over 50 and impairs quality of life due to intermittent claudication causing pain and limiting mobility. Conventional therapies have only modest effect in improving symptoms. The investigators hypothesise that angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition (with ramipril), which causes arterial vasodilation, also improves clinical symptoms in patients with peripheral arterial disease.

I. To investigate whether patient characteristics, exercise therapy characteristics, local metabolic exercise response, endothelial function, autonomic function or atherosclerotic lesion location can predict the walking response to a successfully completed semi-supervised exercise intervention in patients with intermittent claudication (WP I) II. To assess the effect of a home-based exercise intervention with remote monitoring and coaching on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with intermittent claudication (WP II)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Jetstream Atherectomy System for the treatment of Japanese patients with symptomatic occlusive atherosclerotic lesions in native superficial femoral artery (SFA) and/ or proximal popliteal arteries (PPA).

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of one session OMT on arterial circulation in patients with PAD.

The present study is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of the drug Unifuzol® (L-arginine) in patients with obliterating atherosclerosis of the lower extremities. The study recruits patients 40-79 years old with a confirmed diagnosis of chronic ischemia of the lower limb and a stable symptom of intermittent claudication that occurs when walking a distance of 100-299 meters. L-arginine improves microcirculation due to activation of nitrogen monoxide production and stimulates capillary blood flow, thus can probably improve the quality of life of patients with intermittent claudication. The criterion for treatment efficacy will be an increase in the maximum walking distance measures before and on the next day after the end of treatment course.

Studies have shown that intermittent negative pressure (INP) can induce short-term increase in blood flow in the extremity in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Case reports also have indicated that INP treatment has beneficial hemodynamic and clinical effects in patients with lower limb ischemia and hard to heal leg ulcers. However, the clinical and physiological effects of long-term INP treatment are not well documented and needs further investigation.

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.

To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the DABRA Laser System in the atherectomy of peripheral vascular stenoses.