WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status Point of Care (POC) Diagnostic Test

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Venus Leg Ulcers

In brief

The purpose of this trial is to determine if wounds with elevated protease activity (EPA) treated with targeted interventions such as protease modulating therapies can improve clinical and economic outcomes. Multi-centre VLU study to investigate efficacy of WOUNDCHEK™ on EPA wounds

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01537003

Run by

Systagenix Wound Management

People needed

250

Starts

2012-10-01

Expected to finish

2014-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-07-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Men and women aged ≥ 18 years old
• Patients with a leg ulcers of venous aetiology as determined by ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) ≥ 0.8 and able and willing to use appropriate compression therapy
• Duration of ulcer ≥ 6 weeks ≤ 3 years
• Ulcer is ≥ 1 cm2 ≤ 100cm2 no length longer than 10cm
• The patient must be able to understand the trial and provide written informed consent
• No local or systemic signs of infection, with normal CRP and leukocyte levels below 10 000
• Wound has not been treated with PROMOGRAN® in 4 weeks prior to inclusion

You may not qualify if…

• Leg ulcers that do not have venous aetiology as determined by not been suitable for compression therapy and having an ABPI ≤ 0.8
• Leg ulcer smaller than 1cm2 and larger than 100cm2 and has any length longer than 10cm
• Wound duration of less than 6 weeks or longer than 3 years
• Known hypersensitivity to any of the wound dressing used in the trial
• Current local or systemic antibiotics in the week prior to inclusion
• Clinical infected wound as determined by the presence of 3 or more of the following clinical signs: perilesional erythema, pain between two dressing changes, malodorous wound, abundant exudate and oedema.
• Progressive neoplastic lesion treated by radiotherapy or chemotherapy
• Prolonged treatment with immunosuppressive agents or high dose corticosteroids
• Patients who have a current illness or condition which may interfere with wound healing in the last 30 days (carcinoma, connective tissue disease, autoimmune disease or alcohol or drug abuse)
• Life expectancy of <6 months
• Patients with uncontrolled diabetes as determined by Hb-A1c ≥ 12% ( = Hb-1CIFCC ≥ 107.65 mmol/mol)
• Patients who have participated in a clinical trial on wound healing within the past month
• Patients who are unable to understand the aims and objectives of the trial
• Patients with a known history of non adherence with medical treatment
• Females who are pregnant
• Subject has Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or is known to be infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
• Subject has viral hepatitis

Where it is running

• Penn North Centers for Advance Wound Care — Eire, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
• University Medical Center Gieben and Marburg GmBH — Marburg, Germany (enrolling)
• Dres. Bolko Alter Siamak Pourhassan — Oberhausen, Germany (enrolling)
• University of Pisa — Pisa, Roma, Italy (enrolling)
• University of Ferrara — Ferrara, Italy (enrolling)
• Cardiff University — Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (enrolling)
• Bradford Royal Infirmary — Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom (enrolling)

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