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Copper Impact on Venous Insufficiency and Lipodermatosclerosis

NCT03283800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2017-09-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Venous disease has an adverse impact on the quality of life of patients and the NHS spends considerable resources on this chronic condition. Copper has been shown to promote new blood vessel formation and therefore improve blood supply to the affected area and possibly skin conditions. Copper has also been shown to have strong antimicrobial properties. We plan to perform a study whereby patients who would normally be given leg stockings will be asked to wear similar stockings except that one of the stockings will contain copper fibers. Neither the patient nor the clinician will know which is which. Photographs of the leg conditions will be taken at baseline, 2, 4 and 8 weeks to evaluate healing. Benefit will be evaluated by a symptom questionnaire, severity scoring tools and healing scores taken from the serial photographs.

Conditions

  • Lipodermatosclerosis
  • Chronic Venous Insufficiency
  • Venous Insufficiency
  • Varicose Veins

Interventions

OTHER

Copper impregnated compression stocking

Copper impregnated compression stocking

OTHER

Normal compression stocking

Normal compression stocking without copper

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Abdul H Sultan · Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-23
Primary Completion
2017-01-09
Completion
2017-01-09

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