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NCT Number: NCT07282301

Evaluation of the Clinical Outcomes of the Embolic Protection System in Preventing Distal Embolism During Femoropopliteal Debulking Procedures

Patients with femoropopliteal arterial lesions requiring debulking procedures. The objective of this study is Evaluation of the clinical outcomes of the Embolic Protection System for preventing distal embolism during femoropopliteal endovascular debulking procedures (The EPISODE study).

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Renji Hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200217, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Qihong Ni

CONTACT

[email protected]

15801900772

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age > 18 years
  • Rutherford classification 2-5
  • Patients with chronic femoropopliteal obstruction or thromboembolism who require debulking prior to other endovascular treatments.
  • Patients who understand the purpose of this study, participate in the study voluntarily, sign the informed consent and are willing to receive follow-up visits
  • The guidewire needs to pass through the lesion
  • Life expectancy >24 months
  • Moderate to severe calcified lesions confirmed by imaging
  • For patients who receive intervention in both lower extremities, they may be enrolled in order of time of endovascular therapy
  • For combined aortoiliac artery lesions, recanalization of blood flow through endoluminal reconstruction of the vessel without more than 50% residual stenosis.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, or cardiac infarction within 3 months prior to enrollment
  • Patients with known allergy to heparin, aspirin, other antiplatelet drugs, contrast agents, etc.
  • Patients who have been treated with drugs that interfere with this clinical trial or intraoperatively with other special vascular bed preparation devices, such as plaque volume reduction devices, special balloons, etc., within the last 3 months;
  • Pregnant and lactating women
  • Patients who are unable or unwilling to participate in this trial
  • patients with Berger's disease
  • Patients who have undergone arterial bypass on the treated side

Treatment and study plan

Embolic Protection System

Device

Using Embolic Protection System for preventing distal embolism during femoropopliteal endovascular debulking procedures

Primary outcomes

  1. 30-day freedom from Major adverse events (MAEs)

    Time frame: 30 days after intervention

    Incidence of no major adverse events within 30 days. Major adverse event is defined as death; acute cardiac infarction; unplanned amputation; acute thrombosis of the target vessel; serious complications related to the filter, such as vessel perforation, detachment of the filter, and severe entrapment (type D,E,F); distal embolism with clear clinical signs (specifically, the presence of imaging evidence of clear distal embolism at the distal end of the filter, with severe manifestations of ischemia that require further endoluminal or surgical intervention for relief, or cause tissue damage/longer hospitalization).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Device Success Rate

    Time frame: Immediately after intervention

    Defined as: the filter passes through the lesion smoothly and is fully released distal to the lesion, and could be retrieved smoothly at the end of the treatment without serious vascular entrapment, distal embolization, or vascular perforation during release and retrieval

  2. Technical success rate

    Time frame: Immediately after intervention

    Defined as: successful revascularization without termination of operation due to device

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Qihong Ni

CONTACT

[email protected]

15801900772

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

RenJi Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University
  • Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
  • Huashan Hospital
  • Liyuan Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Qingdao Haici Hospital
  • Ruijin Hospital
  • Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
  • Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital
  • Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital, Xiamen University
  • Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Dec 15, 2025
Registry last updated
Dec 15, 2025

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