Circulation Journal
Online ISSN : 1347-4820
Print ISSN : 1346-9843
ISSN-L : 1346-9843
Regenerative Medicine
Phase II Clinical Trial of CD34+ Cell Therapy to Explore Endpoint Selection and Timing in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia
Yasuyuki FujitaMakoto KinoshitaYutaka FurukawaTohru NaganoHisako HashimotoYasuhiko HiramiYasuo KurimotoKyosuke ArakawaKazuo YamazakiYukikatsu OkadaNobuyuki KatakamiEmiko UnoYoshihiro MatsubaraMasanori FukushimaAdel NadaDouglas W. LosordoTakayuki AsaharaYutaka OkitaAtsuhiko Kawamoto
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2014 Volume 78 Issue 2 Pages 490-501

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Background: A prior phase I/IIa clinical trial provided evidence for safety, feasibility and potential efficacy of i.m. injection of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-mobilized CD34+ cells in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI). Methods and Results: A phase II trial of CD34+ cell therapy was conducted in patients with CLI to explore endpoint selection and timing. No-option CLI patients (n=11) underwent i.m. transplantation of G-CSF-mobilized CD34+ cells isolated by magnetic sorting. Ischemic rest pain scales improved from week 2 vs. baseline (P<0.05). Skin perfusion pressure (P=0.0175), transcutaneous partial oxygen pressure (P=0.0446) and pain-free walking distance (P=0.0056) improved from week 2, total walking distance from week 8 (P=0.0182) and toe brachial pressure index from week 12 (P=0.0174) vs. baseline. These parameters peaked at week 36 or 52. Rutherford’s category improved from week 24 vs. baseline (P=0.0065). CLI-free ratio serially increased and peaked (85.7%) at week 36. Serial change in Rutherford’s category correlated with that in Rest Pain Scale (P=0.0374), but not with that in any physiological parameters. Conclusions: Ischemic rest pain scales and physiological parameters improved relatively early after cell therapy, then plateaued later accompanied by recovery from the CLI state. Rutherford’s category and CLI-free ratio at week 36 or later may be suitable endpoints in cell therapy clinical trials for CLI. Functional parameters should be evaluated independently of such clinical endpoints for ischemia severity. (Clinical Trial Registration: URL: https://dbcentre3.jmacct.med.or.jp/jmactr/Default.aspx. Unique identifier: JMA-IIA00022)  (Circ J 2014; 78: 490–501)

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