Skin ulcer in connective tissue disease and vasculitis.
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Patients have the refractory skin ulcer resisntaice to normal therapy of connective tissue disease and vasculitis. 2) Duration time (more than 3 months) or significant quality of life disorders (amputation expected in future) 3) Age of consent acquisition date is 20 years or older 4) Patients who can give written voluntary informed consent (Proxies cannot give informed consent)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1) Patient with past severe allergy or adverse events of apheresis 2) Patient with current (or within the past 5 year) malignant tumor 3) Patient with acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, myocarditis and cerebral infarction within 3 months 4) Patien with remarkable unstable circulation based on severe heart failure and arrhythmia. 5) Patient with active infection 6) Pregnant women or patients who may be pregnant 7) Patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (untreated or medium- and late-stage proliferative retinopathy); excludes patients who have completed treatment 8) Albumin less than 2g / dL 9) Patient judged to be inappropriate by the attending physician
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary endpoint: The effect of skin perfusion pressure of 6 week after the first administration | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary endopoint 1) The effect of reduction in skin ulcer area (long diameter x short diameter) 2) The effect of visual analogue scale for pain of 6 week after the first administration 3) The transition about the effect of skin perfusion pressure after the first administration (before administration, after 2, 6, 12, 24, 52 week) 4) The transition about the skin ulcer area 5) The transition about the pain assessment 6) Period until completion of epithelialization 7) Questionnaire of QOL | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Faculty of Sciences Kumamoto University