Status:

COMPLETED

LeucoPatch in the Management of Hard-to-heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Lead Sponsor:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Conditions:

Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

Diabetic foot ulcers are the source of considerable suffering and cost and there are currently no wound care products available that have been demonstrated to improve healing, or that are cost effecti...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • People aged 18 years and over who have diabetes complicated by one or more ulcers on a foot or both feet below the level of the malleoli, excluding ulcers confined to the interdigital cleft.
  • Those with more than one eligible ulcer will have one - usually the largest or more clinically significant - selected at screening as the index ulcer.
  • Eligible ulcers will be hard-to-heal, meaning that the cross-sectional area will decrease by less than 50 % during a four week run-in period.
  • The cross-sectional area of the index ulcer will be ≥50 and ≤1000 mm2 at the end of the 4 week run-in period.
  • At randomisation, the index ulcer will be clinically non-infected according to IDSA criteria
  • Either the ankle-brachial index (ABPI) in the affected limb will be between 0.50 and 1.40 or the dorsalis pedis pulse and/or tibialis posterior pulse will be palpable.
  • HbA1c ≤108 mmol/mol at screening
  • Participants will have the capacity to understand study procedures, and will be able to provide written informed consent.

Exclusion

  • Haemoglobin concentration \<105 g/L or 6.5 mmol/L at screening.
  • Presence of sickle-cell anaemia, haemophilia, thrombocytopenia (\<100x109/L) or other clinically significant blood dyscrasia
  • Known potential infectivity of blood products, including known HIV and hepatitis
  • Dialysis or an estimated GFR (based on cystatine C or serum creatinine) \<20 ml/min/1.73m2
  • Increase in cross-sectional area of the index ulcer by ≥25% during the 4 week run-in period, or is either smaller than 50 mm2 or larger than 1000 mm2 at the end of that time.
  • Clinical signs of infection of the index ulcer or reason to suspect that infection is present at randomisation.
  • Revascularisation procedure in the affected limb planned, or undertaken within the preceding 4 weeks.
  • Current treatment with cytotoxic drugs or with systemically administered glucocorticoids or other immunosuppressants.
  • Treatment of foot ulcers with growth factors, stem cells or equivalent preparation within the preceding 8 weeks
  • The need for continued use of negative pressure wound therapy
  • Likely inability to comply with the need for weekly visits because of planned activity.
  • Participation in another interventional clinical foot ulcer-healing trial within last the 4 weeks at the time of screening.
  • Prior randomisation in this trial.
  • Judgement by the investigator that the patient does not have the capacity to understand the study procedures or provide written informed consent.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 1 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

269 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02224742

Start Date

August 1 2013

End Date

May 1 2018

Last Update

June 25 2018

Active Locations (32)

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Steno Diabetes Center

Gentofte Municipality, Denmark

2

Herlev Hospital

Herlev, Denmark

3

Nordsjællands Hospital

Hillerød, Denmark

4

Kolding Sygehus

Kolding, Denmark, 6000