Effect of Deferoxamine on Wound Healing Rate in Patients With Diabetes Foot Ulcers
NCT ID: NCT03137966
Last Updated: 2022-05-26
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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
PHASE2
174 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2022-12-30
2026-06-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Diabetic foot ulceration represents a major medical, social and economic problem. The lifetime risk of a person with diabetes for developing a foot ulcer is 25% and it is believed that every 30 seconds a lower limb is lost in the world due to diabetes. The condition is also followed by a high 5 years mortality which has been estimated to be 45% after ulceration and 79% after amputation. The mortality of the patients with DFU is worse than the mortality in patients with many common cancers.
The present clinical management for patients with DFU is limited and in consequence 40% of the ulcers are still not healed after one year of treatment. This limited efficacy of the present therapy is the consequence of the relative poor understanding of the pathophysiology of this complication. Even though prolonged exposure of the tissues to hyperglycemia seems to be the primary causative factor for chronic complications of diabetes it has recently become increasingly evident that hypoxia plays an important role in all diabetes complications and especially in chronic diabetic wounds. A low oxygen concentration is the consequence of either a deficient blood supply due to functional circulatory deficiency, micro- and macro-vascular disease but also by a poor local diffusion of the oxygen due to local oedema.
Adaptive responses of cells to hypoxia are mediated by the hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF) which is a heterodimeric transcription factor composed of two subunits, HIF-1 alfa and HIF-1 alfa both of which are constitutively expressed in mammalian cells. Regulation of HIF-1 activity is critically dependent of the degradation of the HIF-1 alfa subunit in normoxia. The molecular basis of its degradation is O2 dependent hydroxylation of at least one of the two proline residues in the oxygen dependent degradation domain (ODDD) of HIF 1-alfa by specific Fe 2+-, oxoglutarate dependent prolyl 4-hydroxylases (HIF hydroxylases). In this form HIF-1 alfa binds to the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor protein that acts as an E3 ubiquitin ligase and targets HIF-1 alfa for proteasomal degradation (recently reviewed).
Under hypoxic conditions HIF-1alfa is stabilized against degradation and binds to HRE (hypoxic responsive elements) and up-regulates a series of genes involved in angiogenesis (such as VEGF, angiopoietin-2, -4), glycolytic energy metabolism, cell proliferation and survival which enable the cells to adapt to reduction in oxygen availability . The same induction and activation of HIF-1 can be achieved by inhibiting the degrading enzymes (HIF hydroxylases) with substances that compete with their cofactors i.e. iron or oxoglutarate. Deferoxamine is such a substance which stabilizes and activates HIF-1 by chelating iron.
HIF-1 alfa plays a pivotal role in wound healing, and its expression in the multistage process of normal wound healing has been well characterized. In essence, HIF-1 alfa is necessary for expression of multiple angiogenic growth factors, cell motility and recruitment of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC).
Previous studies have shown that hyperglycemia impairs HIF-1 alfa stability and function. Low levels of HIF-1 alfa expression were also found in foot ulcer biopsies in patients with diabetes. The hypothesis is that the wound healing defect present in diabetes is due to an inhibition of HIF-1. This concept has been demonstrated by showing that local activation of HIF-1 either by two structurally different HIF-hydroxylases inhibitors (deferoxamine and DMOG) or by direct adenovirus mediated transfer of stabile HIF in wounds is followed by improvement of wound healing in diabetic mice (db/db) despite of chronic hyperglycemia. The local activation of HIF induces several pivotal processes for wound healing such as recruitment of the EPCs, angiogenesis, cell migration. Same improvement of wound healing were registered using other methods to induce HIF in the wounds in different animal models.
This study is planned to investigate the efficacy of the local stimulation of HIF for improving wound healing in patients with DFU. It is proposed to use local applied deferoxamine which is the only HIF inducer that is approved for clinical use and has been already tested and proved to be effective in animal models of impaired diabetes on wound healing rate. The dose proposed was evaluated as the most effective in preliminary experiments performed in db/db mice.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Deferoxamine
Patients will be randomised to treatment with Deferoxamine (n=87). Deferoxamine (0.66mg/ml) will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Deferoxamine
Deferoxamine (0.66mg/ml) will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Placebo
Patients will be randomised to treatment with placebo (n=87). Placebo will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Placebo
Placebo will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Interventions
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Deferoxamine
Deferoxamine (0.66mg/ml) will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Placebo
Placebo will be applied locally as a gel (3 times a week) for a period of maximum three months or until intact skin.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* No ulcer should present a moderate or severe infection at baseline. Concomitant treatment with systemic antibiotics at baseline is accepted if all ulcers meet none of the criteria defining moderate or severe infection.
* Toe/brachial index \>0.6 and/or Tcp02 \>50mmHg or ankle/brachial index \>0.65, or the pulses at dorsalis pedis/tibialis posterioris clearly palpable.
* Patient should be compliant to one of the accepted off-loading system.
* Patients will be able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
* Subjects who have undergone vascular reconstruction or angioplasty less than 3 months prior to randomisation
* Decompensated congestive heart failure or functional class 3-4.
* Childbearing potential
* Impaired hepatic function (2 times upper normal limit of ASAT and ALAT)
* Severe renal failure (GFR calculated after Cockcroft's formula \<30 ml/min/1.73 m2)
* Ongoing treatment with immunosuppressive drugs
* HbA1c \>12 % (108 mmol/l)(12%)
* Polyglobulia (EVF\>0.60 men, EVF\> 0.56 women)
* Any concomitant disease or condition that may interfere with the possibility for the patient to comply with or complete the study protocol
* Malignancy other than basal-cell carcinoma and cervical carcinoma in situ, requiring any general, local, surgical or radiation therapy.
* History of alcohol or drug abuse
* Osteomyelitis defined as:
1. There is a clinical suspicion of osteomyelitis;
2. Ulcer considered for treatment is located at the site of a past amputation;
3. History of acute osteomyelitis in the past 90 days or history of recurrent osteomyelitis; or
4. A positive "probe to bone" test.
* Participant in another ongoing study
* Known hypersensitivity to deferoxamine
* Unwillingness to participate following oral and written information
* Subjects with any other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition that make the subject inappropriate for the study in the judgment of the investigator.
18 Years
80 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Karolinska University Hospital
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Sergiu Catrina
Associated professor
Principal Investigators
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Sergiu Catrina, MD/Ass.Prof.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Karolinska University Hospital
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References
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Other Identifiers
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170428-DEFEHU
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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