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RecruitingNCT06655129AntheliaUpdated Oct 23, 2024

Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Medical Device as Treatment for Patient Suffering From Skin Disorder

An interventional study of intense pulsed light in Excessive Hairiness, Vascular Lesion and Pigmented Lesions, sponsored by Eurofeedback. Recruiting at 5 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-10-23.

Sponsored by Eurofeedback · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2024, 1 year 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Registered 3 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2024, registered Apr 2024).
  • Started Jan 2024; still recruiting 2 years 9 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
85
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The first IPL device obtained United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance in 1995 for treatment of lower extremity telangiectasias. Since then, its favorable cost and versatility in contrast to many singlespectrum lasers, has led to its rapid proliferation and use in a number of different clinical settings. As described in the literature, ANTHÉLIA medical device is intended to treat skin disorders:

  • Excessive Hairiness (Hirsutism, Hypertrichosis...)
  • Vascular lesions (Rosacea....)
  • Pigmented lesions (Lentigo et melasma)
  • Acne vulgaris
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Conditions studied

  • Excessive Hairiness
  • Vascular Lesion
  • Pigmented Lesions
  • Acne Vulgaris
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In context

Hirsutism

41 studies on the registry are indexed under Hirsutism; 8 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 85 is above the median of 43 across 26 interventional studies indexed under Hirsutism.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Eurofeedback as lead sponsor.

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
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Adult men or women
  • Excessive Hairiness:
  • Patient with unwanted hair on the body (legs, arms, bikini line, or axilla)
  • Patient over 18 years.
  • Patients with Fitzpatrick skin types from I to V.
  • Women were required to be , surgically sterilized, or under a medically acceptable form of (i.e., oral contraceptives, IUD, contraceptive implant, or barrier methods with spermicide or abstinence) during the study time period.

Vascular lesions:

  • Patients over 18 years.
  • Patients with Fitzpatrick skin types from I to IV.
  • Patients with varicosities and Rosacea on the face or upper and lower limbs.

Pigmented lesions:

  • Patients over 18 years.
  • Patients with solar lentigines on their cheeks, back, hands, arm and leg (> 3 mm).
  • Patient with Fitzpatrick skin type from I to IV.

Acne:

  • Patients over 18 years
  • Patients with Fitzpatrick skin types from I to IV.
  • Patients with facial acne vulgaris on face.
  • Willing to sun protect treated area for the duration of enrollment in the study and 4 weeks after treatment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with history of malignant lesions or pre-malignant lesions, scarring, or infection in the area to be treated History of keloidal or hypertrophic scarring
  • Patients with a known photosensitivity
  • Pregnancy women
  • Patient with diabetes mellitus suntan in the area to be treated
  • Use of photo-sensitizing products for 7 days before treatment (selftanning lotions, activators, self-tanning shower gel, etc.)
  • Exposure to the sun or UV rays at least 4 weeks before the treatment and 1 week afterwards
  • Zones with uncovered tattoos, suspect spots or skin diseases (including spots, inflammation, beauty spots, tumors or melanomas, psoriasis, herpes...)
  • Use of medication that induces anticoagulative medication or thromboembolic condition
  • Patients with pacemaker or internal defibrillator
  • Patients that used of NSAIDS two weeks prior to or 2 weeks following the treatment
  • Epileptic patients
  • Additional criteria for excessive hair: Patients that use waxing or other methods of photo epilation within 1 month prior to treatment.
  • Additional criteria for acne: Patients currently under oral antibiotic or oral therapy for acne.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intense Pulsed Light Treatment

    Patients will be treated at different visits, and according to the IFU, with the Anthelia Medical Device (Intense Pulsed Light).

    Device: intense pulsed light

Interventions

  • Deviceintense pulsed light

    intense pulsed light (IPL) using the Medical Device Anthelia

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacity for Excessive Hairiness:

    Excessive Hairiness by hair counting a 4cm2 surface (To demonstrate a hair reduction of 50% between the average score of the treated aera before and after a cycle of treatment defined as six sessions spaced by 12 weeks)

    Time frame: up to 18 months

  2. Efficacity for Vascular lesions and Pigmented lesions

    Vascular lesions: To demonstrate a reduction of 70% between the average score of the treated aera before and after a cycle of treatment defined as five sessions spaced by 4 weeks. To demonstrate a clinical improvement of 50% between the average score of the treated aera before and after a cycle of treatment defined as five sessions spaced by 4 weeks. Pigmented Lesions: To demonstrate a reduction of 60% between the average score of the treated aera before and after a cycle of treatment defined as three sessions spaced by 10 weeks.

    Time frame: up to 4 months

  3. Efficacity for Acne vulgaris

    measuring the diameter of each pimple in a treated area (before and after), To demonstrate a lesion reduction of 50% between the average score of the treated aera before and after a cycle of treatment defined as five sessions spaced by 2 weeks.

    Time frame: up to 4 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. For all patients decrease of the IRBMS score

    IRBMS (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale), minimum score is 10, maximum score is 40

    Time frame: 4 to 18 months

  2. - For all patients decrease of the DLQI score

    DLQI (Dermatology Life Quality Index), minimum score is 0, maximum score is 30

    Time frame: 4 to 18 months

  3. For only Acne patients, at least 20% reduction in the ECLA score

    ECLA ("Echelle de Cotation des Lésions d'Acné" or Acne Lesion Score Scale), minimum score is 0, maximum score is 36

    Time frame: 4 to 18 months

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Study locations

4 of 5 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jan 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2024, 11 months after the start.

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

Registered
Apr 23, 2024
First posted
Oct 23, 2024
StartActual
Jan 20, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Dec 30, 2024
CompletionEst.
Dec 1, 2025
Last update
Oct 23, 2024
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 Oct 23, 2024, 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
NCT06655129
Lead sponsor
Eurofeedback
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 23, 2024
Start date
Jan 20, 2024
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 1, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 23, 2024

Study contacts

Laurent Zawadil
Contact
s.qualite@eurofeedback.com
01 60 86 31 10

Oversight

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