SCS for Patient With Painful Diabetic Neuropathy and Peripheral Arterial Disease
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Spinal cord stimulation, Sham stimulation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Peripheral Arterial Disease, Painful Diabetic Neuropathy, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Chronic Pain. Basic parameters: 19 years — 89 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Patients With Painful Diabetic Neuropathy and Peripheral Arterial Disease: Mechanistic Insights From a Single-center, Randomized, Blinded, Sham-controlled Cross-over Proof-of-concept Trial
Overview
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects over 230 million adults worldwide and is a highly morbid, costly, and disabling condition. Ischemic leg pain drives disability in PAD patients and results from oxygen supply-demand mismatch, autonomic dysfunction, and muscle breakdown. This leg pain, which is unresponsive to traditional pharmacotherapy, limits the patient's tolerance to exercise, which is an important disease-modifying intervention. Spinal cord stimulation is a well-established therapy for medically intractable pain, including painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) and ischemic pain, but is not part of the standard-of-care for PAD despite limited promising clinical data. Early studies used first-generation, tonic stimulation devices, but with these it was impossible to perform sham-controlled trials to test the treatment. Since then, new types of waveform treatments, including high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS), have been shown to be more effective in the treatment of intractable pain. While high-frequency SCS is approved for PDN treatment, it has never been tested in the treatment of claudication pain from PAD. This study will enroll up to 15 participants between the ages of 19 and 89 who have PAD and PDN and are successfully implanted with a permanent SCS. Twelve weeks after SCS implantation, participants will receive two weeks of stimulation and two weeks of sham intervention, in random starting order. Blood flow, blood pressure, skin oxygen levels, and participant reported pain int the lower extremities will be assessed before SCS implantation, 12 weeks after SCS implantation and during each of the treatment periods. Participants will also complete a quality of life survey at the same time points. Comparisons of these measurements with the baseline and post-implantation measurements to determine the effects of SCS.
Detailed description
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects over 230 million adults worldwide and is a highly morbid, costly, and disabling condition. Ischemic leg pain drives disability in PAD patients and results from oxygen supply-demand mismatch, autonomic dysfunction, and muscle breakdown. This leg pain, which is unresponsive to traditional pharmacotherapy, limits the patient's tolerance to exercise, which is an important disease-modifying intervention. Spinal cord stimulation is a well-established therapy for medically intractable pain, including painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) and ischemic pain, but is not part of the standard-of-care for PAD despite limited promising clinical data. Early studies used first-generation, tonic stimulation devices, but with these it was impossible to perform sham-controlled trials to test the treatment. Since then, new types of waveform treatments, including high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS), have been shown to be more effective in the treatment of intractable pain. While high-frequency SCS is approved for PDN treatment, it has never been tested in the treatment of claudication pain from PAD.
This study will enroll up to 15 participants between the ages of 19 and 89 who have PAD (ankle-brachial index under 0.90 or vascular imaging, and experience pain from walking with a pain level of at least 6 cm for at least 3 months )and PDN and who meet inclusion criteria for permanent spinal cord stimulator (SCS) placement. Participants must also have diabetes with symptoms of neuropathy, have a starting pain level of at least 5 cm on a visual pain scale and Vascular Quality of Life Questionnaire score of 5.5 or less.
The study begins with an initial evaluation visit, then a follow-up visit 12 weeks after permanent SCS implantation and optimization. Participants will then be randomized to start in the SCS group or the sham intervention group. Each of these interventions will be conducted for two weeks, then participants will switch to the other intervention in a cross over design. Blood flow, blood pressure, skin oxygen levels, and participant reported pain int the lower extremities will be assessed before SCS implantation, 12 weeks after SCS implantation and during each of the treatment periods. Participants will also complete a quality of life survey at the same time points. Comparisons of these measurements with the baseline and post-implantation measurements to determine the effects of SCS. The study intervention lasts for 4 weeks, after which participants will return to standard SCS care.
Interventions
- Device Spinal cord stimulation
active spinal cord stimulation - Device Sham stimulation
Sham stimulation
Primary outcome measures
- High-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Effect on Analgesia [Time frame: Baseline, 12 week follow-up after permanent spinal cord simulator, week 14 intervention #1 , week 16 intervention #2]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- High-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Effect on Quality of Life [Time frame: Baseline, 12 week follow up after permanent spinal cord simulator, week 14 intervention #1 , week 16 intervention #2]
- High-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Effect on Blood Flow [Time frame: Baseline, 12 week follow up after permanent spinal cord simulator, week 14 intervention #1 , week 16 intervention #2]
- High-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Effect on Autonomic Control [Time frame: Baseline, 12 week follow-up after permanent spinal cord simulator, week 14 intervention #1 , week 16 intervention #2]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- 19 years to 89 years old
- Diagnosed diabetes mellitus
- Signs or symptoms of neuropathy and maximum baseline visual-analog pain scale ≥ 5 cm and peripheral arterial disease (diagnosed by ankle-brachial index < 0.90 or vascular imaging studies) with claudication and exertion-induced visual-analog pain scale ≥ 6 cm for a minimum of 3 months
- Successful spinal cord stimulator (SCS) trial (>50% relief of chronic lower extremity pain) and will have a new permanent SCS placed prior to study intervention
Exclusion criteria
- Uncontrolled psychological or psychiatric disorder
- Inability to hold antithrombotic therapy per the American Society of Regional Anesthesia guidelines
- Non-healing wounds
- Gangrene
- Critical limb ischemia
- Prior lower extremity amputation
- Inability to adhere to study follow-up
- Mechanical spine instability based on flexion/extension radiographs of the lumbar spine
- Prior or current spinal cord stimulator implant
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Crossover
- Masking
- Double blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Nebraska Medical Center — Omaha
Publications
- Petersen EA, Stauss TG, Scowcroft JA, Brooks ES, White JL, Sills SM, Amirdelfan K, Guirguis MN, Xu J, Yu C, Nairizi A, Patterson DG, Tsoulfas KC, Creamer MJ, Galan V, Bundschu RH, Paul CA, Mehta ND, Choi H, Sayed D, Lad SP, DiBenedetto DJ, Sethi KA, Goree JH, Bennett MT, Harrison NJ, Israel AF, Chang P, Wu PW, Gekht G, Argoff CE, Nasr CE, Taylor RS, Subbaroyan J, Gliner BE, Caraway DL, Mekhail NA. PMID 33818600
- Pellegrino PR, Zucker IH, Chatzizisis YS, Wang HJ, Schiller AM. Quantification of Renal Sympathetic Vasomotion as a Novel End Point for Renal Denervation. Hypertension. 2020 Oct;76(4):1247-1255. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15325. Epub 2020 Aug 24. PMID 32829663
- Al-Kaisy A, Palmisani S, Pang D, Sanderson K, Wesley S, Tan Y, McCammon S, Trescott A. Prospective, Randomized, Sham-Control, Double Blind, Crossover Trial of Subthreshold Spinal Cord Stimulation at Various Kilohertz Frequencies in Subjects Suffering From Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (SCS Frequency Study). Neuromodulation. 2018 Jul;21(5):457-465. doi: 10.1111/ner.12771. Epub 2018 Apr 2. PMID 29608229
- Kretzschmar M, Okaro U, Schwarz M, Reining M, Lesser T. Spinal Neuromodulation for Peripheral Arterial Disease of Lower Extremities: A Ten-Year Retrospective Analysis. Neuromodulation. 2024 Oct;27(7):1240-1250. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.10.186. Epub 2024 Jan 1. PMID 38165292
- Piedade GS, Vesper J, Reichstein D, Dauphin AK, Damirchi S. Spinal cord stimulation in non-reconstructable critical limb ischemia: a retrospective study of 71 cases. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2023 Apr;165(4):967-973. doi: 10.1007/s00701-022-05448-8. Epub 2023 Jan 4. PMID 36598544
- Klinkova A, Kamenskaya O, Ashurkov A, Murtazin V, Orlov K, Lomivorotov VV, Karaskov A. The Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia One Year after Spinal Cord Stimulation. Ann Vasc Surg. 2020 Jan;62:356-364. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2018.12.093. Epub 2019 Feb 22. PMID 30802587
- Deogaonkar M, Zibly Z, Slavin KV. Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of vascular pathology. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2014 Jan;25(1):25-31. doi: 10.1016/j.nec.2013.08.013. Epub 2013 Oct 5. PMID 24262897
- Petrakis E, Sciacca V. Prospective study of transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) measurement in the testing period of spinal cord stimulation in diabetic patients with critical lower limb ischaemia. Int Angiol. 2000 Mar;19(1):18-25. PMID 10853681
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06480786 · 0623-24-FB