Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT02637492 |
| Other study ID # |
CHUBX 2013/26 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
February 15, 2016 |
| Est. completion date |
February 1, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
March 2022 |
| Source |
University Hospital, Bordeaux |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
Critical limb ischaemia (CLI) is the most serious stage of peripheral occlusive arterial
disease (POAD). Despite progress in the revascularization procedures, half these patients
experience amputation or death after one year. One issue is to identify these subjects
because aggressive treatment is necessary in those cases, while in others (ie leg ulcer in a
patient with POAD but no rest lower limb ischaemia), revascularization will not be necessary.
Then it would be useful to develop a simple score to help the physician to improve diagnosis
of CLI.
Description:
Today many patients with suspected critical limb ischaemia do not have objective assessment
of limb ischaemia despite recommendations, mainly because of lack of vascular medicine units
able to measure ischaemia with adequate methods such as toe pressure or TCpo2. It would be
very useful to better identify the patients who need to be explored, or at least to have an
evidence-based clinical assessment in those who cannot be explored . The objective is to
develop a simple clinical prediction rule of critical lower limb ischaemia.
Two definitions are currently used for critical limb ischaemia. In both definitions,
objective confirmation is needed for critical limb ischaemia by measurement of ankle
pressure, toe pressure or transcutaneous oxygen pressure. These two latter measurements are
mandatory in the numerous patients whose ankle pressure measurement is not possible
(diabetes, chronic renal failure). Unfortunately few vascular medicine units exist to carry
out these measurements, so that it would be useful to better identify those patients who need
to be explored. In those who cannot be explored, better clinical assessment would also be
very useful.
The investigators aim to develop a simple clinical prediction rule by completing a specific
clinical chart in the patients hospitalized for peripheral occlusive arterial disease in
Bordeaux, Toulouse and Limoges university hospital vascular medicine units and included in
the COPART II cohort. Internal validation will be performed using cross-validation and
bootstrap methods.
To achieve the secondary objective, the patients will be followed-up for the duration of the
study (ie from 1 to 3 years) to evaluate the prediction of clinical outcomes (death or
amputation) by both definitions of critical limb ischaemia.