Shockwave™ vs Surgical Endarterectomy for Calcified Severe Common Femoral Artery Stenosis: Comparison of Efficacy, Safety and Long-Term Outcomes (Shockify)

June 1, 2026 updated by: Baylor Research Institute
The investigators hypothesize that Shockwave with DCB is non-inferior to surgical endarterectomy for common femoral artery (CFA) stenosis with regard to primary efficacy and safety endpoints. The study will challenge the current guideline that recommends common femoral endarterectomy (CFE) as the primary treatment for symptomatic CFA stenosis.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This is a pilot, prospective, randomized clinical trial. This trial compares patients with severe symptomatic moderate to severe calcified CFA stenosis undergoing traditional gold standard CFA endarterectomy to innovative technique of endovascular treatment using Shockwave™ Intra vascular Lithotripsy (IVL) using M5+ balloon with Drug coated balloon to achieve removal and debulking of plaque and achieve luminal gain. Patients who meet inclusion criteria will be informed and consented by a clinical coordinator if they wish to participate in the trial. If participants are candidates for surgery, they will then be randomized into one of two cohorts, receiving either Shockwave™ IVL + DCB (drug-coated balloon) procedure or a standard surgical endarterectomy. The study compares the 1-year efficacy and 6-month safety outcomes post-procedure for patients with severe, symptomatic CFA stenosis receiving Shockwave™ IVL with DCB versus surgical endarterectomy.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Texas
      • Plano, Texas, United States, 75093
        • Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

A patient will be eligible for inclusion in this study if he or she meets all of the following criteria (confirmed by core lab):

  1. CFA atherosclerotic stenosis 60-100%
  2. Moderate to severe calcification reported on imaging
  3. Lifestyle-limiting intermittent claudication (IC) or chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) as described by Rutherford chronic limb ischemia (CLI) category 2-5
  4. Failing conservative therapy
  5. Operative candidate for CFE prior to enrollment
  6. ≥18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

A patient will be ineligible for inclusion in this study if he or she meets any of the following criteria:

  1. History of CFE or bypass in affected limb
  2. Thrombosis of affected CFA
  3. Aneurysm in the common femoral artery of target limb
  4. Known target lesion restenosis (re-narrowing of the artery to ≥50% following the alleviation of a previous narrowing within 3 months)
  5. Any preceding percutaneous cardiovascular intervention within 2 weeks
  6. Inability to tolerate DAPT
  7. Known coagulopathy or bleeding diathesis, thrombocytopenia with platelet count <100,000/µL
  8. Uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c ≥10.0%)
  9. Non-ambulatory
  10. Extensive tissue loss requiring amputation or salvageable only with complex foot reconstruction or non-traditional transmetatarsal amputations
  11. MI within 6 weeks (defined as presumed ischemic symptoms (chest pain, ST-segment deviation and troponin higher than 2 times the upper limit of normal))
  12. Stroke within 3 months (defined as sudden transient or irreversible focal neurological deficit resulting from a cerebrovascular cause)
  13. Pregnant

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Shockwave Catheter
Shockwave™ Intravenous Lithotripsy (IVL)+ DCB (Drug Coated Balloon)
Device: Shockwave Catheter
Shockwave™ IVL + DCB procedure
Active Comparator: surgical endarterectomy
Surgery should be performed with patch angioplasty, with or without profunda femoris endarterectomy.
Procedure: CFA Endarterectomy
Standard CFA endarterectomy

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Clinically driven target lesion revascularization (cdTLR (symptom-driven repeat revascularization of the index lesion))
Time Frame: Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Restenosis to ≥ 50% of the target lesion on angiography or follow-up ultrasound
Time Frame: Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Freedom from perioperative death
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Freedom from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE (stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), cardiovascular death))
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Freedom from major adverse events
Time Frame: Procedure date through 6 months post-op
  1. Acute occlusion of the target lesion
  2. Flow-limiting dissection of the target lesion
  3. Symptomatic thrombus or embolus in treated limb requiring treatment
  4. Unplanned percutaneous/surgical revascularization or amputation above the ankle of the treated limb

  5. Access/surgical site complications

    1. Bleeding events (specify Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) type - see Appendix 18.2)
    2. Surgical site infection requiring medication or surgery, wound dehiscence, patch/arterial infection, lymphatic leak requiring surgery
Procedure date through 6 months post-op

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Mortality
Time Frame: Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Procedure date through 1-year post-op
Rutherford Chronic Limb Ischemia (CLI) Category
Time Frame: 30 days post-op, 3 months post-op, 6 months post-op, 1 year post-op

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553864/table/ch20.Tab2/#

Stage 0 - Asymptomatic. Stage 1 - Mild claudication - Completes treadmill exercise; Ankle Pressure (AP) after exercise >50 mmHg but at least 20 mmHg lower than resting value.

Stage 2 - Moderate claudication - Between categories 1 and 3. Stage 3 - Severe claudication - Cannot complete standard treadmill exercise and AP after exercise <50 mm Hg.

Stage 4 - Ischemic rest pain - Resting AP <40 mm Hg, flat or barely pulsatile ankle or metatarsal pulse volume recording (PVR); Toe Pressure (TP) < 30 mm Hg.

Stage 5 - Minor tissue loss-nonhealing ulcer, focal gangrene with diffuse pedal ischemia- Resting AP < 60 mm Hg, ankle or metatarsal PVR flat or barely pulsatile; TP < 40 mm Hg Stage 6 - Major tissue loss-extending above TM level, functional foot no longer salvageable - Same as category 5
30 days post-op, 3 months post-op, 6 months post-op, 1 year post-op
Treatment satisfaction and quality of life (PAQ)
Time Frame: Pre-op, 30 days post-op, 6 months post-op, 1 year post-op
Measured by the Peripheral Artery Questionnaire (PAQ), a 20-question questionnaire measuring peripheral vascular disease affect on quality of life. Questionnaires may be completed in-person or via phone call conducted by the study coordinator.
Pre-op, 30 days post-op, 6 months post-op, 1 year post-op
Intraoperative blood transfusion > 4 minutes
Time Frame: Intra-op
Intra-op
Procedural duration (minutes)
Time Frame: Intra-op
Intra-op
Length of stay (days)
Time Frame: Procedure date through 1 year post-op
Procedure date through 1 year post-op
Postoperative anemia requiring blood transfusion
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Readmissions
Time Frame: 30 days post-op, 30 days post-discharge
30 days post-op, 30 days post-discharge
Return to the operating room / angiography suite
Time Frame: 30 days post-op
30 days post-op
Access/surgical site complications
Time Frame: 30 days post-op, 6 months post-op
  1. Superficial wound infection
  2. Deep wound infection
  3. Wound dehiscence
  4. Pseudoaneurysm identified on physical exam, imaging or angiography
  5. Hematoma identified on physical exam, imaging or angiography
30 days post-op, 6 months post-op
Pneumonia (number of cases)
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

Patients must meet criteria from both sections:

Radiology: One definitive chest radiological exam (x-ray or CT) with at least one of the following:

  • New or progressive and persistent infiltrate
  • Consolidation or opacity

Patients with underlying pulmonary or cardiac disease require two serial chest radiological exams (x-ray or CT) taken no less than 12 hours apart, but no more than 7 days apart.

Signs/Symptoms/Laboratory: at least one of the following:

  • Fever (>38 C) with no other recognized cause
  • Leukopenia (<4000 WBC/mm3) or leukocytosis (≥12,000 WBC/mm3)

  • For adults ≥ 70 years old, altered mental status with no other recognized cause and at least one of the following:

    1. 5% Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
    2. Positive growth in blood culture not related to another source of infection
    3. Positive growth in culture of pleural fluid
    4. Positive quantitative culture from minimally contaminated lower respiratory tract (LRT) specimen
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Prolonged intubation
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Intubation greater than 48 hours postoperatively
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Urinary tract infection
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

Must meet one of the following TWO criteria within 30 days of the operation:

  • fever (>38C)
  • urgency
  • frequency
  • dysuria
  • suprapubic tenderness

AND urine culture of >105 colonies/mL urine with no more than two species of organisms

OR two of the following:

  • fever (>38C)
  • urgency
  • frequency
  • dysuria
  • suprapubic tenderness

AND any of the following:

  • dipstick test positive for leukocyte esterase and/or nitrite
  • pyuria (>10WBCs/mL or >3 WBC/hpf of unspun urine)
  • organisms seen on Gram stain of unspun urine
  • two urine cultures with repeated isolation of the same uropathogen with >102 colonies/mL urine in non-voided specimen
  • urine culture with <105 colonies/mL urine of single uropathogen in patient being treated with appropriate antimicrobial therapy
  • physician's diagnosis
  • physician institutes appropriate antimicrobial therapy
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Sepsis
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

The disorder spectrum spans from relatively mild physiologic abnormalities to septic shock. The most significant level is reported using the following criteria: SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), clinically recognized by the presence of two or more of the following in the same time frame:

Temp >38 degrees C or 90 bpm RR >20 breaths/min or PaCO2 12,000 cell/mm3, 10% immature (band) forms anion gap acidosis. Report if the patient has clinical signs and symptoms of SIRS listed above and meets either A or B:

A. One of the following:

  • Positive blood culture
  • Clinical documentation of purulence or positive culture

B. Suspected pre-operative infection or bowel infarction leading to the surgical procedure. Procedural findings must confirm this suspected diagnosis with one or more of the following:

  • Confirmed infarcted bowel requiring resection
  • Purulence in the operative site
  • Enteric contents in the operative site
  • Positive intra-operative cultures
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Septic shock
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Report this variable if the patient has sepsis AND documented organ and/or circulatory dysfunction. Examples of organ dysfunction include: oliguria, acute alteration in mental status, acute respiratory distress. Examples of circulatory dysfunction include: hypotension, requirement of inotropic or vasopressor agents. The presence of pneumatosis along with the presence of SIRS is assigned.
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Graft failure
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Mechanical failure of an extracardiac graft or prosthesis including myocutaneous flaps and skin grafts requiring return to the operating room, interventional radiology or a balloon angioplasty within 30 days of the operation.
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Cardiac arrest
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
The absence of cardiac rhythm or presence of chaotic cardiac rhythm, intraoperatively or postoperatively, which results in a cardiac arrest requiring the initiation of CPR, which includes chest compressions. Patients are included who are in a pulseless VT or Vfib in in which defibrillation is performed and PEA arrests requiring chest compressions. Patients with automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) that fire but the patient has no loss of consciousness should be excluded.
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Myocardial infarction
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

Documentation of one or more of the following changes indicative of acute MI:

  • ST elevation >1mm in two or more contiguous leads
  • New left bundle branch block
  • New q-wave in two or more contiguous leads
  • New elevation in troponin greater than 3 times the upper level o f the reference range in the setting of suspected myocardial ischemia
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Acute kidney injury
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
In a patient who did not require dialysis preoperatively, worsening of renal dysfunction postoperatively requiring hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration, or ultrafiltration
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Dialysis
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Initiation of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration or ultrafiltration in a patient not previously on said therapy preoperatively
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Deep vein thrombosis
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

New diagnosis of blood clot or thrombus within the venous system (superficial or deep) which may be coupled with inflammation and requires treatment. Must be noted within 30 days after the principal operative procedure AND one of the following A or B below:

A.New Diagnosis of a [new] venous thrombosis (superficial or deep), confirmed by a duplex, venogram, CT scan, or any other definitive imaging modality (including direct pathology examination such as autopsy) AND the patient must be treated with anticoagulation therapy and/or placement of a vena cava filter or clipping of the vena cava, or the record indicates that treatment was warranted but there was no additional appropriate treatment option available.

B. As per (A) above, but the patient or decisionmaker has refused treatment. There must be documentation in the medical record of the [patient's] refusal of treatment.
Procedure date through 30 days post-op
Pulmonary embolism
Time Frame: Procedure date through 30 days post-op

Lodging of a blood clot in the pulmonary artery with subsequent obstruction of blood supply to the lung parenchyma. The blood clots usually originate from the deep leg veins or pelvic venous system. Since there are not always preoperative studies proving that a clot or thrombus was not present preoperatively, the technical specification of the variable requires only a "new diagnosis"- in other words the clot or thrombus was not previously known. A pulmonary embolism must be noted within 30 days after the principal operative procedure AND the following criteria, A AND B below:

A. New diagnosis of a new blood clot in a pulmonary artery

AND

B. The patient has a V-Q scan interpreted as high probability of pulmonary embolism or a positive CT exam, TEE, pulmonary arteriogram, CT angiogram, or any other definitive imaging modality (including direct pathology examination such as autopsy
Procedure date through 30 days post-op

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Baylor Research Institute

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sameh Sayfo, MD, Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano
  • Principal Investigator: John Kedora, MD, Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 7, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

October 7, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 30, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 1, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 11, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

February 17, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 2, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 1, 2026

Last Verified

June 1, 2026

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Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 021-263

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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