DVT Burden and the Risk of Post-thrombotic Syndrome

NCT ID: NCT06385353

Last Updated: 2025-11-20

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-06-05

Study Completion Date

2027-06-30

Brief Summary

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Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is the most common chronic complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), with major consequences for patient quality of life and cost of management. Identifying patients at high risk of developing PTS could be useful for its prevention and may lead to more appropriate therapeutic strategies to reduce its incidence and severity.

Prognostic tools for predicting risk are very useful for choosing the optimum treatment and improving patient management and are a preliminary step before developing predictive models useful for determining sensitivity to treatment. At present, although several prognostic markers and models have been proposed, it is still difficult to predict who will develop a PTS or a moderate to severe PTS. The development of PTS is multifactorial and depends largely on the extent and severity of venous obstruction which supports the theory of thrombosis burden (DVT-Burden) as a potential prognostic marker for PTS. It therefore seems important to study the association between thrombosis burden and the occurrence of PTS.

The Venous Volumetric Index or VVI (Ouriel 1999) will be used for quantifying DVT-Burden. The VVI was constructed by calculating the volume from the diameter and length of 14 venous segments from the calf veins to the inferior vena cava. The VVI has been validated for its ability to discriminate between symptomatic and asymptomatic DVT and has shown superior performance to other methods for quantifying DVT.

This study aim to assess the performance of baseline DVT-burden estimated by the VVI score on ultrasound for predicting the occurrence and the severity of PTS as assessed by the Villalta scale at 6 months.

Detailed Description

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This is a multicenter prospective cohort study aiming at assessing baseline DVT-Burden and other prognostic factors for predicting the occurrence and the severity of PTS.

Patients diagnosed with a first episode of DVT of the lower limbs are recruited in offices and departments of vascular medicine. They will be informed of the study by their physician. If patients agree to take part and meet the eligibility criteria, they will be included consecutively in the study after signing an informed consent form.

The study will include follow-up visits at one week (D7±2, for patients participating in the biological research only), 1 month (D30±5), 3 months (D90±5) and 6 months (D180±5).

At each visit, the following examinations will be carried out:

* Assessment of symptoms and clinical signs to evaluate the Villalta score.
* Venous ultrasound evaluation of the lower limbs by colour Doppler ultrasound (CDUS). Data collected will be useful to calculate the VVI score planned at the study analysis phase.

At the D0, D7, D30 and D90 visits, blood samples will be taken for research purposes to assess factors of inflammation, coagulation and fibrinolysis.

At the D90 and D180 visits, the patient will also be asked to complete the VEINES-QOL and SF-36 quality of life questionnaires.

The patient's participation in the research will end at the end of the D180 visit.

Conditions

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Postthrombotic Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Association between thrombosis burden and occurrence of PTS

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Quantification of deep vein thrombosis burden and assessment of post-thrombotic syndrome

Intervention Type OTHER

Post-thrombotic syndrome will be assessed by the Villalta score until 6 months of follow-up.

Data collected from colour doppler ultrasound will be used to calculate the Venous Volumetric Index to quantify deep vein thrombosis burden until 6 months of follow-up.

Interventions

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Quantification of deep vein thrombosis burden and assessment of post-thrombotic syndrome

Post-thrombotic syndrome will be assessed by the Villalta score until 6 months of follow-up.

Data collected from colour doppler ultrasound will be used to calculate the Venous Volumetric Index to quantify deep vein thrombosis burden until 6 months of follow-up.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age ≥ 18 years
2. Patients with symptomatic acute deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs confirmed by ultrasound on the criteria of venous incompressibility and direct image of the thrombus (patients with stable pulmonary embolism associated with a symptomatic deep venous thrombosis can be included)
3. Affiliates or beneficiaries of a social security scheme.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pregnant women, women in labour or breastfeeding mothers.
2. Pulmonary embolism haemodynamically unstable defined by systolic blood pressure \< 90 mmHg or a drop in systolic blood pressure of at least 40 mmHg during at least 15 min, shock or cardiac arrest.
3. Asymptomatic venous thrombosis.
4. Symptomatic venous thrombosis of both lower limbs (patients with bilateral deep venous thrombosis but symptomatic on one side only can be included).
5. History of ipsilateral or contralateral venous thrombosis of the lower limb.
6. Fracture or orthopedic surgery of the lower limbs in the last 3 months.
7. Dependance caused by age or secondary to a chronic affection, going from the inability to stand up or walk alone without help to bed or armchair rest over.
8. Prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulant treatment \> 5 days.
9. Expected duration of anticoagulant treatment \< 3 months (all patients must have a minimum treatment of 3 months).
10. Patient estimated at high risk of bleeding according to investigator clinical judgment (renal, platelet, digestive, hepatic, neurological... origin) .
11. Indication for interruption of the inferior vena cava or venous recanalisation (endovascular, thrombolysis or surgery).
12. Refusal or inability to give written informed consent to participate in the study.
13. Life expectancy \< 6 months.
14. Patients under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, etc.) or safeguard of justice.
15. Patients taking part in a research project for venous thromboembolism that can interfere with the conduct of DVT-BURDEN research.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

F-CRIN INNOVTE Research Network

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Antoine ELIAS

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon La Seyne-sur-Mer

Locations

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Centre Hospitalier de Carcassonne

Carcassonne, Aude, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Hôpital d'Aubagne

Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hôpital Saint Joseph

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Hôpital La Timone, AP-HM

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Cabinet libéral

Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Site Status TERMINATED

Cabinet libéral

Ajaccio, Corse-du-sud, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Cabinet libéral

Ajaccio, Corse-du-sud, France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU de Dijon

Dijon, Côte d'Or, France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHU de Besançon

Besançon, Doubs, France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest

Brest, Finistère, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinique Rive Gauche

Toulouse, Haut-Garonne, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre de Santé Polyvalent de UGESSAP

Montoir-de-Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU Saint Etienne

Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Pays de la Loire Region, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot

Lyon, Rhône, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens Picardie

Amiens, Somme, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier de Fréjus/Saint-Raphaël

Fréjus, Var, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Polyclinique Les Fleurs

Ollioules, Var, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre cardio-vasculaire Esterel

Saint-Raphaël, Var, France

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Cabinet libéral

Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Cabinet libéral

Six-Fours-les-Plages, Var, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon La Seyne-sur-Mer

Toulon, Var, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon

Avignon, Vaucluse, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes

Nantes, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Hôpital Saint Joseph

Paris, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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Magali CESANA

Role: CONTACT

0483772060

Facility Contacts

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Géraldine PAOLI-CAZANAVE

Role: primary

Walfroy Radix, MD

Role: primary

Benjamin Ally, MD

Role: primary

Gabrielle SARLON-BARTOLI, Pr

Role: primary

Jean-François SECONDI

Role: primary

Céline DE MARI

Role: primary

Hélène Greigert, Pr

Role: primary

Patricia Costa, MD

Role: primary

03 81 66 82 27 ext. +33

Benjamin ESPINASSE

Role: primary

Sophie BOVEDA

Role: primary

Mario Maufus, MD

Role: primary

Laurent Bertoletti, Pr

Role: primary

04 77 12 75 96 ext. +33

Judith CATELLA

Role: primary

Simon SOUDET

Role: primary

Hatem BOUGHIDA

Role: primary

Anaïs CORNE

Role: primary

Colin RICHARD

Role: primary

Sophia BENSEDRINE

Role: primary

Jean-Noël POGGI

Role: primary

Olivier GRAS

Role: primary

Olivier ESPITIA, MD

Role: primary

02 44 76 80 75 ext. +33

Maxime Delrue, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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2023-A02652-43

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2022-CHITS-003

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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