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Status unknownNCT03994666CLIUpdated Jun 21, 2019

Cell Therapy in Critical Limb Ischemia

A Phase 2 interventional study of allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells and Placebo (NaCl) in Critical Limb Ischemia, sponsored by CHU de Reims. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-06-21.

Sponsored by CHU de Reims · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jun 2019), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Study drug and dosage form : Umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (HB-MSC1)

Dose and route of administration : 60 × 106 cells or 120 x 106 cells to be injected as 30 individual intramuscular injections, once at V0 within 48 hours to 2 weeks maximum after the revascularization procedure.

Comparator, dose and route of administration : Placebo, injected as 30 individual intramuscular injections, once at V2 within 48 hours to 2 weeks maximum after the revascularization procedure.

Study centers : 3 centers in France

Study objectives :

Primary: Evaluation of the feasibility and systemic and local tolerance of an implantation, via intramuscular route, of allogenic HB-MSC1, associated with a revascularization procedure, in patients suffering from critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Secondary: Preliminary evaluation of efficacy and dose effect relationship of the MSC implantation in hemodynamic, anatomical and functional terms.

Exploratory: Constitution of a serum bank of the patients included in the study for inflammation and auto immunity biomarkers analysis

Study design : This will be a multicenter Phase IIa study, consisting in a first, open-label, ascending dose feasibility and safety stage followed by a randomized placebo-controlled feasibility, safety and preliminary efficacy stage.

Read the detailed description

Demographics, baseline and follow-up characteristics: descriptive statistics. Primary analysis: Descriptive statistics for the rate of patients with high grade AEs (grade 2 and more), related to the cell implantation will be computed in each arm, with its two-sided 95% CIs.

Each dose arm will be compared to the control arm by computing the absolute difference and the relative risk between the active dose arm and the control arm, together with their 95% two-sided CIs.

The p-values for the comparisons of the difference between the observed absolute rate to 0 and of the relative risk to 1 will be computed, but it is not expected that the study will have sufficient power to detect a significant difference on either of the two statistics (absolute difference or relative risk).

Primary efficacy analysis: The primary efficacy criterion (TcPO2) will be compared between each dose group versus the control group to test for a superiority of MSC over control.

The tested hypotheses are:

  • Null hypothesis: mean (MSC dose i) ≤ mean (Control)
  • Alternative hypothesis: mean (MSC dose i) > mean (Control) A mixed - model for repeated measures will be used to model the evolution of TcPO2 over time. The significance of the time by treatment interaction will be used to test the two hypotheses. Model adjusted means (LS means) and their differences between treatment arms will be computed at each timepoint.

The LS-Means for change from baseline to 180 days will be used as the primary efficacy endpoint.

Other efficacy analyses: the same analysis model (mixed - model for repeated measures) will be used for all the other continuous efficacy endpoints.

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Conditions studied

  • Critical Limb Ischemia
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In context

Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

343 studies on the registry are indexed under Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia; 70 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 45 across 233 interventional studies indexed under Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia.

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Lead sponsor

CHU de Reims is the lead sponsor of 267 studies on the registry; 50 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. The patient is suffering from critical limb ischemia due to atheromatous arteriopathy, and defined as existence of chronic pain at rest or trophic disorders, with a systolic pressure inferior to 50 mm Hg at the ankle or inferior to 30 mm Hg at the toe (respectively 70 and 50 mm Hg in case of trophic disorder), or a transcutaneous measure of oxygen pressure (TcPO2) at the back of the foot in decubitus inferior to 30 mm Hg, and is being subject to a revascularization procedure, associated or not to minimally invasive surgery.

    Inclusion confirmation will be performed after the revascularization procedure, and treatment planned within 48 hours to 2 weeks after the revascularization procedure.

  2. The patient (or his/her legal representative(s)) is capable to understand and comply with study requirements and to provide written informed consent prior to any study procedure for participation in the study and transmission of personal "anonymized" data, which signifies an agreement to enter the study and comply with the restrictions and requirements listed in the informed consent form (ICF).
  3. Male or female patients aged ≥18 years at the time of signing the ICF.
  4. A female patient is eligible to participate if she is of non-childbearing potential, defined as pre-menopausal females with a documented tubal ligation or hysterectomy; or post-menopausal females defined as 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea. Females on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will be required to use one of the treatment methods that does not modify hemostasis parameters (eg chlormadinone acetate [Lutéran]) or must discontinue HRT to allow confirmation of post-menopausal status prior to being enrolled in the study.
  5. Diabetic patients with an eye fundus examination of less than 3 months excluding proliferative retinopathy
  6. Patient with a life expectancy >12 months

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients presenting a failure of the revascularization procedure, with technical failure defined as the inability to perform the intended procedure, i.e.

    • in the case where femoropopliteal bypass was intended, inability to perform the bypass for any reason
    • in the case where endovascular procedure was intended:

      • inability to cross the arterial lesion with a guidewire and to catheterize the target vessel
      • inability to cross the arterial lesion with any endovascular treatment device such as balloons or stents
      • residual stenosis > 50%
  2. Patient with non atheromatous arteriopathy The patient has, or has a history of, any significant disease or disorder that would increase the risk for the patient if they were enrolled in the study or would affect study procedures or outcomes.
  3. The patient is mentally or legally incapacitated.
  4. Patient protected by law.
  5. Patient who does not benefit from the national health insurance coverage.
  6. The patient has been involved in a previous trial with the investigational product.
  7. History of cancer excepting basocellular epithelioma during the past 5 years.
  8. Patient necessitating chronic hemodialysis or creatinine clearance inferior to 30 mL/min.
  9. History of stroke or myocardial infarction of less than 3 months.
  10. Hemostasis disorder with contra-indication of intramuscular injections.
  11. Patients receiving dual antiplatelet therapy that cannot be temporarily discontinued at least 4 days before and until 6 hours after cell implantation.
  12. Patient receiving an antiplatelet therapy with an adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitor (ADP/P2Y12 inhibitor) that cannot be temporarily discontinued at least 4 days before and until 6 hours after cell implantation.
  13. Patient receiving an anticoagulant treatment that cannot be temporarily discontinued until 2 days after the study treatment injection.
  14. Patients subject to a below the knee femoro-popliteal bypass procedure or to a femoro-tibial bypass procedure
  15. Patients included in another therapeutic trial
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
30 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    simple dose

    Biological: allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells

  • Experimental
    double dose

    Biological: allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells

  • Placebo comparator
    placebo

    Biological: Placebo (NaCl)

Interventions

  • Biologicalallogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells

    Injection of mesenchymal stem cells

  • BiologicalPlacebo (NaCl)

    Placebo injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of treatment - emergent adverse events

    The primary safety endpoint will be the occurrence of any high grade AEs (grade 2 and more), either serious or not, assessed as related to the cell implantation by the investigator, reported over the 360 days of the study period. AE Intensity Definition : Grade 1 : asymptomatic or mild symptoms; clinical or diagnostic observations only; intervention not indicated ; Grade 2 : minimal, local or non-invasive intervention indicated; limiting age-appropriate instrumental activities of daily living ; Grade 3 : severe or medically significant but not immediately life-threatening; hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization indicated; disabling; limiting self-care activities of daily living ; Grade 4 : life-threatening consequences; urgent intervention indicated ; Grade 5 : death related to adverse event

    Time frame: Day 1 to day 360

Secondary outcomes

  1. Transcutaneous oxygen pressure

    Primary efficacy endpoint: transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcPO2) mesured in mm Hg

    Time frame: Day 360

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Study locations

1 site
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 21, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03994666
Lead sponsor
CHU de Reims
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 21, 2019
Start date
Sep 2019 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 21, 2019

Study contacts

Ambroise DUPREY
Contact
aduprey@chu-reims.fr
03 26 78 46 60 ext. 0033

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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