Dexamethasone Infusion to the Adventitia to Enhance Clinical Efficacy After Femoropopliteal Revascularization

Peripheral Arterial Disease Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Dexamethasone Infusion to the Adventitia to Enhance Clinical Efficacy After Femoropopliteal Revascularization

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01507558
• Other study ID #: 10-02101
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 9, 2011
• Last updated: January 4, 2018
• Start date: December 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to test if dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory medication approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), can be injected safely into the tissue around the blood vessel wall at the time of an angioplasty or atherectomy.

Description:

This is an investigator-initiated, single-arm, external pilot study to assess the safety and feasibility of perivascular administration of dexamethasone following endovascular superficial femoral and popliteal artery angioplasty or atherectomy.

Although dexamethasone is approved by the FDA for injection into blood, skin or joints, it has not been approved by the FDA for injection around blood vessels. The investigators want to find out if this procedure helps prevent re-narrowing of the blood vessel after angioplasty or atherectomy. The dexamethasone will be injected with a Bullfrog® Micro-Infusion catheter, which is an FDA-approved device for injecting medications into tissues around the blood vessel wall. The Bullfrog® Micro-Infusion catheter is similar to other balloon tipped catheters except that it contains a microneedle covered by a fold of semi-rigid balloon. Once the balloon is inflated, the microneedle is uncovered and a medication can be injected into the tissue around the blood vessel.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 22
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient is > 40 years and < 80 years of age

• Patient has severe, lifestyle-limiting claudication or critical limb ischemia (Rutherford classification 3-6)

• Patient has TASC II A, B or C disease, SFA revascularization is preferred over medical management, and endovascular approach is preferred revascularization strategy

• Patient has a resting ABI of <0.9 or an abnormal treadmill ABI. Patients with incompressible arteries must have a TBI <0.8

• Patient has at least 1 infra-popliteal run-off vessel with patency to the ankle without a >50% stenosis

• Successful crossing of the lesion with guidewire and successful atherectomy or angioplasty with residual stenosis <30% as compared to the reference vessels

• Atherectomy procedure does not result in embolization, arteriovenous fistula or perforation

• Patient agrees to return for a clinical assessment duplex ultrasound at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 months (routine clinical care)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient is simultaneously participating in another investigational drug or device study

• Patient is pregnant or breast-feeding

• Patient has cancer, autoimmune disease, bone marrow or organ transplant, or other concurrent medical illness requiring immunosuppressive therapy

• Patient has end-stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease (eGFR<30)

• Patient has an active infection

• Patient has a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to heparin, contrast agents, excipients of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Injection, USP, dexamethasone, or other glucocorticoids

• Patient has a life expectancy of less than one year

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Peripheral Arterial Disease
• Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Intervention

Procedure:
• Administration of dexamethasone to SFA/popliteal adventitia
Following a balloon angioplasty or atherectomy of a stenotic TASC II A, B, or C lesion in the superficial femoral or popliteal artery, a Bullfrog Micro-Infusion Catheter will be used to infuse 0.96 mg dexamethasone per cm arterial lesion.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	San Francisco VA Medical Center	San Francisco	California
United States	University of California, San Francisco Medical Center	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Safety Outcome Measures:	Freedom from death, vessel dissection, thrombosis or extravasation at 30 days post-procedure.	30 days
Primary	Effectiveness Outcome Measures:	Freedom from Target Lesion Revascularization (TLR) and/or Target Vessel Revascularization (TVR) at 6 months post-procedure.	6 months
Secondary	Safety Outcome Measures:	Freedom from death, stroke, myocardial infarction, emergent surgical revascularization, significant distal embolization in target limb, and thrombosis of target vessel	24 months