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RecruitingNCT06693570THORUpdated Jan 24, 2025

Evaluating Intact Fish Skin Graft and Standard of Care Versus Standard of Care Alone in Nonhealing Venous Leg Ulcers

A Phase 4 interventional study of Intact Fish Skin Graft (IFSG) + Standard of Care and Standard of Care in Venous Leg Ulcer (VLU), Venous Leg Ulcers and Venous Leg, sponsored by Kerecis Ltd.. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-01-24.

Sponsored by Kerecis Ltd. (part of Coloplast A/S) · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Apr 2026, 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Nov 2024; still recruiting 1 year 11 months later.
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
150
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the between-arm difference in the proportion of subjects achieving complete closure of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLU) between Intact Fish Skin Graft plus standard of care (IFSG/SOC) versus standard of care alone (SOC) over 12 weeks.

Read the detailed description

This is a randomized controlled multicenter clinical trial evaluating intact fish skin grand and standard of care vs. standard of care alone in nonhealing venous leg ulcers. The product classifies as a medical device and consists of a full thickness fish-skin that has been processed using Kerecis™ Limited's proprietary EnviroIntact™ method.

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Conditions studied

  • Venous Leg Ulcer (VLU)
  • Venous Leg Ulcers
  • Venous Leg
  • Nonhealing Venous Leg Ulcer

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Keywords

  • Fish Skin Graft
  • Intact Fish Skin Graft
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In context

Varicose Ulcer

369 studies on the registry are indexed under Varicose Ulcer; 77 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 150 is above the median of 60 across 309 interventional studies indexed under Varicose Ulcer.

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Lead sponsor

Kerecis Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

First submitted after Kerecis Ltd. became part of Coloplast A/S.

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subjects must be at least 18 years of age or older.
  2. Subjects must have a nonhealing venous leg ulcer present for a minimum of 4 weeks and cannot have received more than 52 weeks of high-level compression prior to the initial screening visit.
  3. No visible signs of healing objectively, less than 40% reduction in wound size in the last 4 weeks.
  4. At randomization, subjects must have a target ulcer with a minimum surface area of 1 cm2 and a maximum surface area of 25 cm2 measured post-debridement.
  5. The affected limb must have adequate perfusion confirmed by vascular assessment. Any of the following methods performed within 3 months of the first screening visit are acceptable:

    1. ABI between 0.7 and ≤ 1.3;
    2. TBI ≥ 0.6;
    3. TCOM ≥ 40 mmHg;
    4. PVR: biphasic.
  6. If the potential subject has two or more ulcers, and they are separated by at least 2 cm post-debridement, the largest ulcer satisfying the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be designated as the target ulcer. If the potential subject has two or more ulcers and they are separated by less than 2cm, the entire wound area is designated as the target ulcer.
  7. Subjects must have a Functional Ambulatory Category Score (FACS) of 3 or greater.
  8. Subjects must consent to using the prescribed compression method for the duration of the study.
  9. Subjects must agree to attend the weekly study visits required by the protocol.
  10. Subjects must be willing and able to participate in the process.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. The potential subject is known to have a of \< 6 months.
  2. The index ulcer is determined to be due to a condition other than venous insufficiency.
  3. The target ulcer exposes muscle, tendon, or bone.
  4. The target ulcer exhibits overt clinical signs and symptoms of infection with cellulitis surrounding the wound margin.
  5. The target ulcer has known or suspected skin .
  6. The target ulcer has been previously exposed to radiation.
  7. The target ulcer duration is greater than one year having received high level compression without closure for a year or more.
  8. The potential subject has end stage renal disease requiring dialysis.
  9. The potential subject is receiving (including systemic at doses greater than 10 mg of prednisone per day or equivalent) or cytotoxic chemotherapy or is taking medications that the PI believes will interfere with wound healing (e.g., biologics).
  10. A potential subject who, in the opinion of the investigator, has a medical or psychological condition that may interfere with study assessments.
  11. The potential subject was treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) or a cellular or tissue-based product (CTP) in the 30 days prior to the initial screening visit.
  12. The potential subject has a malnutrition indicator score \<17 as measured on the Mini Nutritional Assessment.
  13. The potential subject has (HbA1c) greater than or equal to 12% within 3 months of the initial screening visit.
  14. The surface area of the target ulcer has reduced in size by more than 20% in the 2 weeks prior to the initial screening visit ("historical" run-in period). Digital planimetry is not required for measurements taken during the historical run-in period (e.g., calculating surface area using length X width is acceptable).
  15. The surface area measurement of the target ulcer decreases by 20% or more during the active 2-week screening phase: the 2 weeks from the initial screening visit (SV-1) to the TV-1 visit during which time the potential subject received SOC.
  16. The potential subject has a Functional Ambulatory Category Score (FACS) of less than 3.
  17. The potential subject has a (BMI) greater than 42
  18. In the last 8 weeks the patient has undergone revascularization (surgical or stenting) to the affected leg.
  19. Venous intervention in the affected limb in the last 30 days.
  20. Presence of any condition (including current drug or alcohol abuse, medical or psychiatric condition) that is likely to impair understanding of or compliance with the study protocol in the judgment of the Investigator.
  21. Pregnancy at enrollment or women who are breastfeeding, or women of who are planning to become pregnant during the time of the study OR are unwilling/unable to use acceptable methods of (birth control pills, barriers, or abstinence).
  22. Know allergy to any of the components of fish skin or bovine collagen.
  23. Participation in a clinical trial involving treatment with an product within the previous 30 days.
  24. A subject with a disorder that would create unacceptable risk of post-operative complications is excluded.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(10)

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Informed consent

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Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

HbA1c

A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
150 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intact Fish Skin Graft (IFSG) + Standard of Care

    Up to 12 visits with Intact Fish Skin Graft (IFSG) + Standard of Care.

    Other: Intact Fish Skin Graft (IFSG) + Standard of Care

  • Active comparator
    Standard of Care

    Standard of care will be cleaning, debridement, ulcer moisture balance, and offloading.

    Other: Standard of Care

Interventions

  • OtherIntact Fish Skin Graft (IFSG) + Standard of Care

    Participants will receive weekly applications of MariGen and Standard of Care until ulcer closure, or a maximum of 12 weeks, whichever occurs first.

  • OtherStandard of Care

    Beginning at the screening visit, participants will receive weekly treatment with standard of care (cleaning, debridement, ulcer moisture balance, and offloading) until ulcer closure, or a maximum of 12 weeks, whichever occurs first.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The percentage of target ulcers achieving complete wound closure

    The percentage of target ulcers achieving complete wound closure in 12 weeks

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 Weeks]

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time to closure

    The time to closure of the target ulcers over 12 weeks.

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  2. Percent area change

    Percentage wound area change from TV-1 to TV-13 measured weekly with digital photographic planimetry and physical examination.

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  3. Adverse Events

    The number of adverse events.

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  4. Change in pain in target ulcer

    Change in pain in the target ulcer assessed using the Visual Analog Scale VAS scale from TV-1 to TV-13

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  5. Visits and product applications needed to close the ulcer

    The number of visits and product applications needed to close the ulcer

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  6. Quality of life using the Wound quality of Life questionare wQOL

    Change in quality of life using the wQOL checklist \[TV-1, TV-4, TV-8, and TV-12/Final Visit\].

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

  7. Determine improvement in Quality of Life - Forgotten Wound Score FWS

    Quality of Life assessed using the Forgotten Wound Score. The scale has a score of 0 to 100- 100 being the worst outcome meaning the wound bothers the subject most of the time. \[TV-1, TV-4, TV-8, and TV-12/Final Visit\].

    Time frame: [Time Frame: 1-12 weeks]

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Nov 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Apr 2026, 17 months after the start.

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

Registered
Nov 14, 2024
First posted
Nov 18, 2024
StartActual
Nov 25, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Apr 2026
CompletionEst.
Nov 2026
Last update
Jan 24, 2025
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 Jan 24, 2025, 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
NCT06693570
Lead sponsor
Kerecis Ltd.
Collaborators
Serena Group
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 18, 2024
Start date
Nov 25, 2024
Primary completion
Apr 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 24, 2025

Study contacts

Barkley Booker
Contact
bbooker@serenagroups.com
888-960-1343 ext. 1019
Thomas Serena, MD
Contact
serena@serenagroups.com
814-688-4000

Oversight

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