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NCT04772300: LIMES
Trial to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Sirolimus-Coated Balloon vs. Uncoated Standard Angioplasty for the Treatment of Below-the-knee Peripheral Arterial Disease
NA trial testing Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) MagicTouch Sirolimus Coated PTA Balloon Catheter in Peripheral Artery Disease in 230 participants. Participants enrolled and being followed up; not accepting new ones.
17 April 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Jena University Hospital |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Active, enrolled |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | double |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 230 |
| Start date | 10 February 2022 |
| Primary completion | 17 April 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 17 November 2028 |
| Sites | 19 locations across Austria, Germany |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) MagicTouch Sirolimus Coated PTA Balloon Catheter
- Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) with non-coated balloon catheter (POBA)
Conditions studied
- Peripheral Artery Disease — all drugs for Peripheral Artery Disease →
Sponsor
Jena University Hospital
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Peripheral Artery Disease. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study is a prospective, interventional, multicenter 1:1 randomized trial. The trial evaluates the safety and efficacy of the Magic Touch PTA sirolimus drug-coated balloon in comparison to the treatment with POBA (control device) in patients with advanced infrapopliteal artery disease.
Publications & conference data
2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Diversity in randomized clinical trials for peripheral artery disease: a systematic review.
Long C, Williams AO, McGovern AM, Jacobsen CM, et al · · 2024 · cited 5× · PMID 38350973 · DOI 10.1186/s12939-024-02104-8 -
Sirolimus-Coated Balloon Angioplasty of Infra-popliteal Lesions for the Treatment of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia: Study Protocol for the Randomized Controlled LIMES Study.
Teichgräber U, Platzer S, Lehmann T, Ingwersen M, et al · · 2022 · cited 5× · PMID 35906491 · DOI 10.1007/s00270-022-03213-z
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- PubMed search for NCT04772300
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04772300 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Jena University Hospital
- Last refreshed: 26 December 2025
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