Peripheral Arterial Disease (arteriosclerosis obliterans, buerger'
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Patients with ASO or Buerger's disease confirmed obstruction or stenosis by leg angiography 2) Patients whose Fontaine classification is 2-4 and Rutherford classification is 1-5 in either limb. 3) Patients without indication of angioplasty and bypass surgery to arteria poplitea (constricted portion is diffuse or at peripheral micro artery), or uncontrollable the disease by these traditional treatment(No option patients) 4) Nonsmoking for over a month 5) Age is between 20 and 75. Patients who can give informed consent themselves in writing
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1) Patients with severity progression of Fontaine classification or Rutherford classification within 1 month 2) Major amputation of lower limb is planned 3) Patients who performed angioplasty, bypass surgery, other surgical therapy or LDL apheresis within 1 month. 4) Patients who have serious allergic reaction or adverse reaction to G-CSF or apheresis 5) Patients with uncontrolled ischemic heart disease, heart failure or arrhythmia 6) Patients with severe stenotic lesion at major artery in intracranial or extracranial 7) Less than 6 months since last episode of myocardial/brain infarction, brain hemorrhage or TIAs. 8) Dialysis patients of Fontaine4, who have a history of ischemic heart disease, brain infarction or brain hemorrhage. 9) Patients with diabetic proliferating retinopathy (new Fukuda classification BI to BV). 10) Patients with malignant tumor within 3 years 11) Leukocytes less than 4,000/µL or exceeding 10,000/µL., platelets less than 50,000/µL, AST (GOT) exceeding 100 IU/L or ALT (GPT) exceeding 100 IU/L 12) Patients who have coexisting or history of interstitial pneumonia, or take the medicine with possibility of causing interstitial pneumonia 13) Patients who complicated by infection with fever over 38C 14) Patients with splenomegaly 15) Patients with claudication symptom, rest pain, ulcer or gangrene unrelated to primary disease 16) Patients with severe neuropathy in the lower limbs, and be difficult to evaluate in this trial 17) Patients with uncontrollable mental disorders 18) Patients with coexisting or history of hyperfunction of thyroid gland 19) Patient who is within 6 months from the end of other trails 20) The females who are in pregnancy or lactation, may be pregnant, or are planning to become pregnant before the end of trial period. The males who desire pregnancy of partner.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Progression-free survival | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Changes of Fontaine classification or Rutherford classification 2) Overall survival 3) Time-to-amputation 4) Amputation-free survival 5) Ulcer /Gangrene size 6) Severity of ischemic pain in lower limbs 7) ABI (TBI in measurable patients) 8) ICD and ACD | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital Department of Surgery