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CompletedNCT04162418DEEPER LIMUSUpdated Nov 18, 2023

A Study of the TEmporary Spur StEnt System for the Treatment of Lesions Located in the InfraPoplitEal ARteries Using a LIMUS-base DCB

An interventional study of Temporary Spur Stent System in Peripheral Arterial Disease and Critical Limb Ischemia, sponsored by ReFlow Medical, Inc.. Completed at 1 site in Austria. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-18.

Primary conditionChronic Limb-Threatening IschemiaRegistry: Peripheral Arterial DiseaseReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Peripheral Arterial Disease — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia, a narrower term within Peripheral Arterial Disease.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by ReFlow Medical, Inc. · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
26
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 17 studies in Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia with a site in Austria — 3 open to participants now, 4 under way, none of them phase 3. Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia · Austria.

Enrollment
12th of 14
26 · median 67
Started
2020
the only one that year
No phase
13 of 17
1 open now
Registered
12th of 17
by date

Among the 17 studies in Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia with a site in Austria, this one is the 12th largest by enrollment of the 14 interventional ones, is the only one that started in 2020, is one of 13 with no phase, and was the 12th registered.

By phase

17 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.

No phasethis study13 · 1 open
Observational3 · 2 open
Phase 31 · 0 open

By the year they started

First in 2007; this study’s year is marked. 1 started in 2020.

Size and results

Median enrollment 67 across the 14 interventional studies, 200 across the 3 observational. Of the 9 that completed or were terminated, 4 (44%) have results posted.

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Study summary

This is a non-randomized, prospective, single center pilot study designed to evaluate the safety of the Temporary Spur Stent System to treat patients with infrapopliteal arterial disease, when used in conjunction with a commercially available limus-base drug coated balloon.

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Conditions studied

  • Peripheral Arterial Disease
  • Critical Limb Ischemia

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Keywords

  • peripheral arterial disease
  • critical limb ischemia
  • infrapopliteal disease
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In context

Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Reclassified

356 studies on the registry are indexed under Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia; 71 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 26 is below the median of 40 across 239 interventional studies indexed under Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia.

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Lead sponsor

ReFlow Medical, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Compared within Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Peripheral Arterial Disease. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subject is willing and able to provide and able to comply with the study protocol.
  2. >1 year in the investigator's opinion.
  3. Subject is > 18 years of age.
  4. Subjects must have symptoms of limb ischemia, determined by clinical symptoms of Rutherford class 3-5, including severe, life-limiting claudication (R 3), rest pain (R 4), and/or minor tissue loss (R5), that in the opinion of the investigator are not amenable to conservative medical therapy and require endovascular intervention for alleviation of symptoms and tissue preservation
  5. Stenotic, restenotic, or occlusive lesions located in the infrapopliteal vessels, with target lesion that can be successfully crossed with a guidewire.
  6. Target lesion must meet lesion-specific criteria in pre-screening by angiography at time of procedure (prescreening with CTA, MRA or selective angiography may be performed prior to the index procedure).
  7. Target vessel(s) reconstitute(s) at or above the ankle, with the target treated segment extending no more than 10 mm beyond the ankle.

    Note:

    If the anterior tibial or posterior tibial arteries are treated, there must be inline flow to the foot.

    If the peroneal artery is treated, there must be at least one collateral supplying the foot.

  8. Target lesion must begin no higher than the tibial trifurcation (popliteal artery excluded).
  9. Target vessel reference diameter is measured to be between 2.0 mm to 4.5 mm in diameter, assessed by one of the following methods after successful completion of guidewire crossing of the lesion site:

    1. Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS)
    2. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
    3. Quantitative Vascular Angiography (QVA)
  10. Lesion length must be > 30 mm and \< 200 mm.
  11. Only one limb may be enrolled per subject. Up to two vessels may be treated per subject; if required, a second modality may be used for treatment in the non-target infrapopliteal vessel. Any treatment of the non-index vessel must be performed prior to the use of the investigative device and only one artery may be treated with the investigative device
  12. The treated segment is defined as the total length of artery treated with the device. Target treatment length is \<250 mm with a maximum segment of 200 mm separated by 30 mm of healthy tissue between treated lesions.
  13. Successful pre-dilatation of the target lesion as outlined in the procedure instructions, defined as resulting in stenosis \<50%, without resulting flow limiting (Type D or greater) dissection, thrombus, or aneurysm by angiography prior to the insertion of the investigative device.
  14. Iliac, SFA and popliteal inflow lesions can be treated using standard angioplasty and/or drug coated balloon and/or an approved stent (no atherectomy) during the index procedure or >30 days prior. Inflow lesions treated intraprocedure must be treated first, prior to consideration of treatment of infrapopliteal lesions. If pre-screening with duplex ultrasound, angiography, CTA, or MRA has been performed \< 365 days prior to the procedure, intra-procedure angiography of the aorto-iliac vasculature is not required, however, the femoropopliteal inflow must still be imaged using angiography during the index procedure. Inflow lesions must have a healthy vessel segment of >30 mm between the study lesion and the treated segment, defined as less than 50% stenosis without aneurysmal segments.
  15. Retrograde access (in the infrapopliteal arteries) is permitted for lesion crossing, however, the Temporary Spur Stent System must be deployed from antegrade access.
  16. For subjects with bilateral disease, planned treatment of the contralateral limb must either be performed >30 days prior to the index procedure or > 14 days following the index procedure.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject unwilling or unlikely to comply with the appropriate follow up time for the duration of the study in the opinion of the investigator.
  2. Subject is pregnant or planning to become pregnant during the course of the trial.
  3. Subject has an active infection that is not controlled at the time of the procedure, including septicemia or bacteremia.
  4. Subject has osteomyelitis proximal to the phalanges. Osteomyelitis in the digit(s) of the target foot is permitted.
  5. Subject has a heel wound, unless osteomyelitis has been ruled out with MRI, MRA, or nuclear medicine bone scan
  6. Planned major (above the ankle) amputation of the target limb. A planned or previous minor (transmetatarsal amputation or digit amputation) is permitted
  7. Recent myocardial infarction or stroke \< 90 days prior to the index procedure.
  8. Symptomatic acute heart failure class III or greater.
  9. Impaired renal function ( \<25 mL/min) within 30 days of procedure or end stage renal disease on dialysis
  10. Subject with vasculitis, systemic Lupus Erythematosus or Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
  11. Subject receiving chronic or intravenous therapy.
  12. Inability to tolerate dual antiplatelet and/or anticoagulation therapy.
  13. Known allergies or sensitivities to heparin, antiplatelet drugs, other anticoagulant therapies which could not be substituted, drug balloon coatings and their , including, but not limited to, paclitaxel, sirolimus, or zotarolimus, or an allergy to contrast media that cannot be adequately pre-treated prior to the index procedure.
  14. The subject is currently enrolled in another device or drug trial that interferes with the study endpoints.
  15. Known allergy to nitinol or nickel.
  16. Prior stent(s) within the target vessel, or bypass surgery of or within the target vessel(s)
  17. Target lesion is located within an aneurysm or associated with an aneurysm in the vessel segment either proximal or distal to the target lesion. Inflow must also be free of aneurysmal segments.
  18. Previous treatment failure of inflow arteries (Iliac, SFA and popliteal) which required a surgical procedure. Prior bypass above the level of the infrapopliteal arteries is permitted.
  19. Previous treatment of inflow lesions, if not treated during the index procedure, must have been performed >30 days prior to the index procedure.
  20. Previous treatment of the target vessel \<30 days prior to index procedure
  21. Angiographic evidence of thrombus within target limb.
  22. Inability to obtain antegrade access in the limb from which the investigative device can be deployed.
  23. Extremely severe calcification classified as grade 4 as measured by the Peripheral Academic Research Consortium (PARC) score or the Peripheral Arterial Calcium Scoring System (PACSS) that, in the investigator's opinion, would not be amenable to PTA (see Appendix I for definitions).
  24. Type D dissections or greater incurred during predilation or CTO crossing (see Appendix I for definitions).
  25. Significant (>50%) stenosis of inflow arteries or unsuccessful treatment of inflow lesions.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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Informed consent

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Life expectancy

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Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Excipients

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
26 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Other
    Intervention

    Treatment with Temporary Spur Stent System and a commercially available, limus-base, drug coated balloon

    Device: Temporary Spur Stent System

Interventions

  • DeviceTemporary Spur Stent System

    Treatment of qualifying infrapopliteal lesions with Temporary Spur Stent System and a commercially available, limus-base drug-coated balloon

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Rate of All-Cause Mortality, Major Amputation and Clinically Driven Target Lesion Revascularization (CD-TLR) at 6 months

    6 month composite of All-Cause Mortality, Major Amputation and Clinically Driven Target Lesion Revascularization (CD-TLR)

    Time frame: 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Secondary Efficacy: Late lumen loss

    Late Lumen Loss (LLL) of the target lesion by angiogram/QVA at 6 months

    Time frame: 6 months

  2. Secondary Efficacy: Primary Patency

    2. Primary patency (flow/no flow) of treated lesion sites by angiogram/QVA in subjects who are free from CD-TLR at 6 months.

    Time frame: 6 months

  3. Secondary Efficacy: Rutherford class

    The second secondary efficacy measurement is change in Rutherford class score at 3, 6 and 12 months. Rutherford score is a classification system for patients with peripheral vascular disease. Categories are numbered from 0 to 6, with 0 being asymptomatic, and 6 being major tissue loss, functional foot no longer salvageable. Higher values are therefore considered a worse outcome. Rutherford class zero: No symptoms; Rutherford class 1: Mild Claudication (minimal leg pain with ambulation) symptoms; Rutherford Class 2: Moderate Claudication (moderate leg pain with ambulation); Rutherford Class 3: Severe claudication (severe leg pain with ambulation); Rutherford Class 4: Ischemic Rest pain (leg pain at rest); Rutherford Class 5: Minor tissue loss (nonhealing ulcer, focal gangrene, diffuse pedal ischemia); Rutherford class 6: Major tissue loss (extending above the transmetatarsal TM level, functional foot no longer salvageable.

    Time frame: 12 months

  4. Secpndary Efficacy: Wound healing

    The third secondary efficacy endpoint is wound healing for subjects with Rutherford class 5 at 6 and 12 months, as assessed by the investigator using WIfI score and descriptive characteristics, including change in wound size measured by any decrease in wound surface area. The WIfI classification scoring system is a grading system using a composite score of wound (W), ischemia (I), and foot infection (fi). These three different categories are graded from 0 to 3 with 0 being the best and 3 being the worst. The total score will be provided (clinical stage 1-5), which is used to estimate the risk for major amputation at one year. Patients with a score of 1 are considered low risk, and patients with a score of 5 are considered high risk (foot not salvageable). Therefore, higher values are considered a worse outcome. The composite score is calculated by adding up the score from each category.

    Time frame: 12 months

Other outcomes

  1. Secondary Safety: 30 days

    1. Freedom from target limb Major Adverse Limb Event (MALE) \& All- cause perioperative death (POD) at 30 days

    Time frame: 30 days

  2. Secondary Safety: 6 and 12 months

    Freedom from MALE of the target limb at 6 and 12 months post-procedure

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Univ.-Klinikum LKH Graz
    Graz, 8036, Austria
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — No plan for sharing of IPD

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Feb 2020 to primary completion in Jun 2022, 28 months.

Of 70 interventional studies with no phase under Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 19 and three quarters within 85. This study's 28 months is below that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 11, 2019
First posted
Nov 14, 2019
StartActual
Feb 14, 2020
Primary completionActual
Jun 30, 2022
CompletionActual
Sep 30, 2023
Last update
Nov 18, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 18, 2023, 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
NCT04162418
Lead sponsor
ReFlow Medical, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 14, 2019
Start date
Feb 14, 2020
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2022
Completion
Sep 30, 2023
Last update
Nov 18, 2023

Study contacts

Marianne Brodmann, MD
principal investigator · Univ-Klinikum LKH Graz

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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