Status:
COMPLETED
Antistax® in Patients With Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Lead Sponsor:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Conditions:
Venous Insufficiency
Eligibility:
All Genders
25-75 years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
Study to determine the efficacy and tolerability of two dose levels of Antistax relative to placebo in patients suffering from CVI grade I or incipient grade II
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Male or female
- Between 25 and 75 years of age
- CVI I or CVI II (without expanded trophic disturbances)
- Willing and able to give written informed consent prior to participation in the study
Exclusion
- Concomitant disease(s) exclusion criteria:
- Decompensated cardiac insufficiency
- Edema not due to venous disease of the legs (e.g. latent cardiac insufficiency, renal insufficiency, lymph edema, etc)
- Peripheral arterial disease (ankle/arm pressure index \< 0.9)
- Current acute phlebitis or thrombosis
- Renal insufficiency (Serum creatinine \> 1.5 mg/dl)
- Liver disease (SGPT (ALAT) \> 3x upper limit of normal)
- Other diseases: insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, neuropathies, hyper- or hypocalcaemia, malignancies
- Anamnestic indications of diabetic microangiopathy or polyneuropathy
- Drug and/or alcohol abuse
- Severe climacteric complaints
- Immobility
- Avalvulia
- Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber-Syndrome (Naevus varicosis osteohypertrophicus, Haemangiectasia hypertrophicans)
- State after pulmonary embolism
- Recognized hypersensitivity to the trial drug ingredients
- Current florid venous ulcus
- Clinical indication for a necessary, specific phlebologic acute treatment, e.g. compressive treatment, phlebectomy, etc.
- Previous treatment(s) exclusion criteria:
- Treatment with venous drugs within the last 4 weeks
- Treatment with laxatives which affect fluid or electrolyte balance within the last 8 days
- Changes in or unstable response to treatment with theophylline, diuretics, cardiac glycosides, ACE inhibitors or calcium antagonists within the last 8 days
- Changes in post-menopausal Hormone replacement within the last 2 months
- Concomitant treatment/non-drug therapy exclusion criteria:
- Other venous drugs apart from the trial medication
- Compression therapy
- Venous surgery at the leg(s)
- Extensive use (on more than a total of 6 days during the entire trial) of laxatives which affect fluid or electrolyte balance
- Major surgery requiring full anesthesia
- Other exclusion criteria:
- Previously studied under this protocol
- Participation in another clinical trial within the previous 90 days or during the present study
- Patients who have visited a sauna or had other thermal applications in the previous day before any visit
- Pregnant or nursing women or inadequate birth control methods (this applies to females of childbearing potential only)
- Patients considered as mentally ill as well as unable to work or with limited working ability, or unable (or only partially able) to follow the spoken or written explanations concerning the trial
- Patients in a bad general health state according to the investigator's judgment
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 1998
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
260 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02191280
Start Date
April 1 1998
Last Update
July 16 2014
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