Can a temporary stent keep leg arteries open?
NCT ID NCT03807531
First seen Aug 12, 2026 · Last updated Aug 13, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial is testing a temporary stent system designed to open blocked arteries below the knee in people with peripheral arterial disease. The stent is used along with a drug-coated balloon to help keep the vessel open. The study will check how well the treated arteries stay open and whether the procedure is safe over a year. Participants are adults with leg pain or wounds due to poor blood flow.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Temporary Spur Stent System (a device used with a drug-coated balloon to open blocked arteries in the lower leg)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a new way to treat blocked arteries below the knee, potentially reducing the need for repeat procedures and improving blood flow in people with peripheral arterial disease.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early, non-randomized study with a small number of participants, so results may not apply broadly. Risks include device-related complications, vessel recoil, or the need for repeat treatment.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2019
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subject is willing and able to provide informed consent and able to comply with the study protocol. 2. Life expectancy \>1 year in the investigator's opinion 3. Subject is \> 18 years of age. 4. Subject is Rutherford class 3-5. 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 (pre-screening with CTA, MRA or selective angiography may be performed prior to the index procedure) 7. Target vessel(s) reconstitutes(s) at or above the medial malleolus, with the target treated segment extending no more than 10 mm beyond the medial malleolus. 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 tibioperoneal trifurcation (popliteal arteries 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 \< 150 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 total treated segment is defined as the total length of artery treated with the investigational device. Target treatment length is \<240 mm with a maximum segment of 150 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 dissection (Type D or greater), 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 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 angiography, CTA, MRA, or ultrasound has been performed \<365 days prior to the procedure, intra-procedure angiography of the aorto-iliac vasculature is not required, however, the infrainguinal 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: 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 or a heel wound. 5. Planned major (above the ankle) amputation of the target limb. A planned or previous minor (transmetatarsal or digit amputation) is permitted 6. Recent myocardial infarction or stroke \< 90 days prior to the index procedure. 7. Heart failure with Ejection Fraction \< 35% 8. Impaired renal function (eGFR \<25 mL/min) within 30 days of procedure and subjects on dialysis 9. Subject with vasculitis, systemic Lupus Erythematosus or Polymyalgia Rheumatica. 10. Subject receiving chronic or intravenous corticosteroid therapy. 11. Inability to tolerate dual antiplatelet and oral anticoagulation therapy. 12. Known allergies or sensitivities to heparin, antiplatelet, or other anticoagulant therapies which could not be substituted, and/or paclitaxel or an allergy to contrast media that cannot be adequately pre-treated prior to the index procedure. 13. The subject is currently enrolled in another investigational device or drug trial that may interfere with the endpoints of this study. 14. Known allergy to nitinol or nickel. 15. Prior stent(s) within the target vessel, or bypass surgery of or within the target vessel(s) 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Previous treatment of inflow lesions, if not treated during the index procedure, must have been performed \>30 days prior to the index procedure. 19. Previous treatment of the target vessel \<30 days prior to index procedure 20. Angiographic evidence of thrombus within target limb. 21. Inability to obtain antegrade access in the limb from which the investigative device can be deployed. 22. 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. 23. Type D dissections or greater incurred during pre-dilation or CTO crossing. 24. Significant (\>50%) stenosis of inflow arteries or unsuccessful treatment of inflow lesions.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Auckland City Hospital
Auckland, 1023, New Zealand
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Klinikum Hochsauerland Klinik für Angiologie
Arnsberg, Germany
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Ospedale di Lugano Civico
Lugano, Switzerland
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RoMed Klinikum Rosenheim
Rosenheim, Germany
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Universitats Herzzentrum Bad Krozingen
Bad Krozingen, Germany
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Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
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