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This study aims to evaluate whether, in a standardised cohort of patients with mild to moderate PTS, monitored for a sufficiently long follow-up period, quality of life measured by generic instruments and disease-specific instruments evolves favourably in this patient profile.

Study objective: to evaluate the evolution of quality of life in general and in the specific context of the disease of patients who have experienced an episode of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), are affected by post-thrombotic syndrome, are subject to compression therapy and receive an additional standard venoactive agent (sulodexide 15 mg twice daily during 6 months).


Clinical Trial Description

Chronic venous insufficiency, or chronic venous disease (CVD), after prior deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), is diagnosed as post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). It has been calculated that PTS occurs in between 20% and 50% of patients after an episode of DVT, even after having received optimal anticoagulant treatment, and this disorder usually consolidates in the first 2 years after the acute thrombotic episode. The presentation of PTS varies from mild symptoms or clinical signs to severe presentations in approximately 10% of cases, including chronic pain in the limbs that limits activity and ability to work, untreatable oedema and ulcers in the legs.

The cornerstone of the treatment of consolidated PTS is compression treatment, especially in the form of elastic compression stockings, and frequent elevation of the leg, despite the low level of evidence, but these measures require the strictest possible therapeutic compliance on the part of the patient. There is still little evidence that "venoactive" agents are effective in PTS symptoms; nevertheless, the use of medications in PTS is very widespread. In a study by González- Fajardo et al., the use of compression stockings is described in 75% of patients and, in a study by Lozano -Sánchez et al., their use is described in 62% of patients. In the latter study, venoactive drugs were used in approximately 90% of patients.

The diagnosis, staging, prognosis and evolution of the severity of the various entities grouped together under the heading of CVD, including PTS, are based mainly on scales and scoring systems. Objective evaluation of CVD severity tends to be based on the "clinical, etiologic, anatomic and pathophysiologic" (CEAP) clinical classification, the Venous Clinical Severity Score (VCSS) and the Villalta score. Nevertheless, at the present time it is recognised that the assessment of severity does not necessarily coincide with the perception that patients themselves have of their quality of life, which is estimated with generic questionnaires (such as the abbreviated 36-item Short-Form Health Survey questionnaire Short Form (SF-36) and disease-specific questionnaires (such as the Venous Insufficiency Epidemiological and Economic Study questionnaire (VEINES-QOL).

Various studies used some of these scales, usually more than one. All the studies agree that patients with PTS have a lower QoL than those without PTS, and this is shown by both generic and specific instruments. Nonetheless, the population examined in the studies was extremely heterogeneous with respect to use of compression treatment, use of drugs and duration of observations.

The problem that remains to be solved is whether the therapeutic measures applied lead to a change in the QoL measured by generic and disease-specific instruments over a relatively long treatment period. Achieving favourable changes in patients' perception of quality of life remains fundamental for therapeutic compliance and for a suitable physician-patient relationship in the treatment of any chronic disease, and therefore in PTS. This matter can be properly examined, first, in a cohort of patients that is as standardised as possible with respect to the stage and seriousness of the disease and the use of compression treatment and pharmacological treatment.

The standardisation of the stage and seriousness of the disease, as well as the means of standardising the compression treatment, can be achieved with appropriate inclusion and exclusion criteria. As pharmacological treatment is generally administered, sulodexide was chosen for purposes of standardisation. This is a venoactive treatment with antithrombotic, profibrinolytic and endothelium-protective activity, already being used in PTS patients with favourable results. The guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the American Venous Forum and the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) include it among the recommended pharmacological treatments, along with compression, for patients with manifest chronic venous disease. Standardisation of the determination of QoL is envisaged using the generic questionnaire SF-36 and the disease-specific questionnaire VEINES-QOL.

In this way, this study aims to evaluate whether, in a standardised cohort of patients with mild to moderate PTS, monitored for a sufficiently long follow-up period, quality of life measured by generic instruments and disease-specific instruments evolves favourably in this patient profile. If this is the case, a different approach to the treatment of the disease will be necessary. ;


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NCT number NCT02512601
Study type Interventional
Source Bama GeVe, S.L.U.
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Status Terminated
Phase Phase 4
Start date September 2015
Completion date February 2017

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