Anatomical Study of the Arteries of the Skin on Amputation Legs (APIA)

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Arteritic Leg Ulcer

Treatments: Biological: artericitc surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03618615

2017-A02936-47

Details and patient eligibility

About

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Qualitatively describe the distribution of cutaneous arteries in patients with long-term occlusive arterial disease.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE To compare the distribution of cutaneous arteries observed on the legs of arteritic patients with that observed on non-arteritic legs (from bodies given to science).

Full description

Arterial patient coming to CHRU Nancy, in the Vascular and Endoluminal Surgery Department, to undergo leg amputation.

Usually, after the amputation of the leg in the operating theatre, the surgical waste is destroyed.

Instead of being destroyed, the leg will be used for research.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major Patient
• Patient with late stage occlusive arteriopathy with lower limb amputation
• Patient who did not oppose the search
• Patient affiliated to a social security scheme

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with infectious diseases not accessible in the anatomy laboratory
• Woman of childbearing age without effective contraception
• Persons referred to in Articles L. 1121-5 to L. 1121-8 and L1122-2 of the Public Health Code :
• Pregnant woman, parturient or nursing mother
• Person deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision,
• Person under psychiatric care pursuant to Articles L.3212-1 and L.3213-1 of the Public Health Code
• Person admitted to a health or social institution for purposes other than research
• Minor person (not emancipated)
• Adult subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, trusteeship, protection of justice)
• Major person who is not in a position to express consent and who is not subject to a legal protection measure