A Safety and Efficacy Study of the Treatment of Impending and Actual Pathological Fractures in the Humerus From Metastatic Bone Disease
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02373904 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : February 27, 2015
Last Update Posted : August 1, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Humerus Pathological Fracture | Device: Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 14 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Prospective, Multi-Center Study of the IlluminOss Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System for the Treatment of Impending and Actual Pathological Fractures in the Humerus From Metastatic Bone Disease |
Study Start Date : | February 2015 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2016 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 2017 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System (PBSS)
The PBSS is comprised of an inflatable, thin walled polyethylene terephthalate (PET; Dacron™) balloon mounted on an insertion catheter. This balloon catheter system is designed to deliver the monomer cement to the fracture site via the medullary canal of the bone.
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Device: Photodynamic Bone Stabilization System
Treatment of impending and actual pathological fractures of the humerus |
- Pain Reduction [ Time Frame: 90 days ]VAS Pain Score change of > -33% compared to baseline
- Functional Improvement (Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) improvement of > +10% from baseline -EORTC QLQ-C30 improvement of > +10% from baseline -EORTC QLQ-BM22 improvement of > +10% from baseline) [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
- Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) improvement of > +10% from baseline
- EORTC QLQ-C30 improvement of > +10% from baseline
- EORTC QLQ-BM22 improvement of > +10% from baseline
- Clinical Safety Success (No Serious Device Related Complications -No additional surgical interventions: revisions, supplements, fixations or removals) [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
- No Serious Device Related Complications
- No additional surgical interventions: revisions, supplements, fixations or removals
- Radiographic Safety Success (No device fracture, migrations, mal-alignment or loss of reduction or fixation) [ Time Frame: 90 days ]No device fracture, migrations, mal-alignment or loss of reduction or fixation
- Pain Reduction (VAS Pain Score change of > -33% compared to baseline) [ Time Frame: 90, 180 and 360 days ]VAS Pain Score change of > -33% compared to baseline
- Functional Improvement (-Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) improvement of > +10% from baseline, -EORTC QLQ-C30 improvement of > +10% from baseline -EORTC QLQ-BM22 improvement of > +10% from baseline) [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) improvement of > +10% from baseline,
- EORTC QLQ-C30 improvement of > +10% from baseline
- EORTC QLQ-BM22 improvement of > +10% from baseline
- Clinical Safety Success (No Serious Device Related Complications -No additional surgical interventions: revisions, supplements, fixations or removals) [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- No Serious Device Related Complications
- No additional surgical interventions: revisions, supplements, fixations or removals
- Radiographic Safety Success (No device fracture, migrations, mal-alignment or loss of reduction or fixation) [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]No device fracture, migrations, mal-alignment or loss of reduction or fixation
- Duration of index procedure and length of hospital stay [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Disability status [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]Determined per Investigator assessment
- Evaluation of duration of physical therapy prescription [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Assessment of prescription and over-the-counter analgesic medication use [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Survivability from time of index procedure to death [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Incidence and number of AEs [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Incidence and number of procedure- and device-related complications [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]
- Activities of Daily Living score through all follow-up intervals [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BM22
- VAS Pain score from baseline through all follow-up intervals [ Time Frame: 90, 180, 360 days ]VAS pain scale

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
-General Inclusion Criteria
- Skeletally mature adult males and females 18 years of age or older.
- Impending or actual pathological fracture of the humerus, secondary to metastatic bone disease.
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Females: neither pregnant nor intending to become pregnant during the course of the study, defined as:
- Postmenopausal for at least 1 year OR
- Documented oophorectomy or hysterectomy
- Surgically sterile OR
- If of childbearing potential, must be practicing double-barrier method of birth control, be willing to avoid pregnancy for the period of study participation and have a negative pregnancy test at screening
- Able to understand and provide informed consent.
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Willing and able to comply with post-operative treatment protocol and follow-up visit schedule.
-Impending Fracture-Specific Inclusion Criteria
- Documented presence of solitary metastatic lesion.
- Mirels Criteria Score ≥ 8.
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Destruction of cortical bone at impending fracture site > 50%.
-Actual Fracture-Specific Inclusion Criteria
- Radiograph-confirmed diagnosis of acute, single isolated fracture of the humerus. AO classification 11A1, 11A2 and 11B1, 11B2 and 12A1,12A2 and 12B1, 12B2 and 13A1,13A2 and 13B1, 13B2.
- Fracture is closed, Gustilo Type I or IIA.
Exclusion Criteria:
-General Exclusion Criteria
- Primary tumor (osteogenic origin, etc.) at site.
- Impending fracture or actual fracture location other than humerus.
- Current concomitant traumatic fracture of any other location.
- Active or incompletely treated infections that could involve the device implant site.
- Distant foci of infection that may spread to the implant site.
- Allergy to implant materials or dental glue.
- Vascular insufficiency, muscular atrophy, or neuromuscular disease at implant site.
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Uncooperative patients, or patients who are incapable of following directions (for example, as a consequence of a neurological or psychiatric disorder).
-Impending Fracture-Specific Exclusion Criteria
- Mirels Score < 8.
- Destruction of cortical bone at impending fracture site < 50%.
- Prior surgery and/or prior fracture of affected site.
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Any articular component to impending fracture site.
-Actual Fracture-Specific Exclusion Criteria
- Index treatment is greater than 28 days post fracture.
- Open fractures with severe contamination.
- Extremely comminuted fractures where insufficient holding power of the balloon on the intramedullary canal is probable.
- Delivery sheath is unable to cross fracture site after proper fracture reduction and realignment
- Patients whose intramedullary canal at site of fracture measures smaller than the diameter of the sheath provided.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02373904
Austria | |
Medical University of Vienna | |
Vienna, Austria, 1090 | |
Germany | |
St. Vinzenz-Hospital GmbH | |
Koln, Germany, D-50733 | |
Johannes Wesling Klinikum Minden | |
Minden, Germany, 32429 | |
Lahn-Dill Kliniken | |
Wetzlar, Germany, 35578 | |
Netherlands | |
Medisch Spectrum Twente | |
Enschede, Netherlands, 7513 ER | |
Medical Center Leeuwarden | |
Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 8934 AD |
Responsible Party: | IlluminOss Medical, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02373904 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
14-03-PATHOLHUM-01 NL49653.072.14 ( Other Identifier: Institutional Review Board Nijmegen ) |
First Posted: | February 27, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | August 1, 2017 |
Last Verified: | July 2017 |
Bone Diseases Fractures, Bone Fractures, Spontaneous Wounds and Injuries Musculoskeletal Diseases |