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RANGER II SFARANGER II SFA: A 3:1 Randomized Trial Comparing the Boston Scientific RANGER™ Paclitaxel Coated Balloon vs Standard Balloon Angioplasty for the Treatment of Superficial Femoral Arteries (SFA) and Proximal Popliteal Arteries (PPA)

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What is being tested

RANGER™ Paclitaxel Coated Balloon

+ Paclitaxel

+ Standard Balloon Angioplasty

DeviceDrugProcedure
Who is being recruted

Arterial Occlusive Diseases+8

+ Arteriosclerosis

+ Cardiovascular Diseases

Over 20 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 3
Interventional
Study Start: March 2017
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Summary

Principal SponsorBoston Scientific Corporation
Last updated: January 28, 2026
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Study start date: March 2, 2017

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

The RANGER II SFA is a global, prospective, multi-center clinical trial. Approximately 446 subjects will be enrolled at up to 80 study centers worldwide. Regions participating include the United States, Canada, European Union, Japan and New Zealand. The trial consists of a single-blind, superiority, 3:1 (Ranger Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) vs. Standard PTA) randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a concurrent, non-randomized, single-arm, pharmacokinetic (PK) substudy, and a concurrent, non-blinded, non-randomized, Long balloon substudy.

Official TitleRANGER II SFA: A 3:1 Randomized Trial Comparing the Boston Scientific RANGER™ Paclitaxel Coated Balloon vs Standard Balloon Angioplasty for the Treatment of Superficial Femoral Arteries (SFA) and Proximal Popliteal Arteries (PPA)
Principal SponsorBoston Scientific Corporation
Last updated: January 28, 2026
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

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

440 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.



Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Over 20 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Arterial Occlusive DiseasesArteriosclerosisCardiovascular DiseasesPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsVascular DiseasesPeripheral Vascular DiseasesPathological Conditions, AnatomicalAtherosclerosisPlaque, AmyloidPlaque, AtheroscleroticPeripheral Arterial Disease

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subject (or Legal Guardian) is willing and able to provide consent before any study-specific tests or procedures are performed and agree to attend all required follow-up visits; 2. Subject at least 20 years of age; 3. Chronic symptomatic lower limb ischemia defined as Rutherford classification 2, 3, or 4; 4. Target lesion is in the native SFA and/or PPA down to the P1 segment; 5. Patent popliteal and infrapopliteal arteries, i.e., single vessel runoff or better with at least one of three vessels patent (less than 50 % stenosis) to the ankle or foot; 6. Reference vessel diameter ≥ 4 mm and ≤ 8 mm by visual estimate; 7. Angiographic evidence that target lesion consists of a single de novo, non-stented and non-atherectomy treated or restenotic lesion (or tandem lesions or a combination lesion as defined below) that is: * ≥ 70%-99% stenotic with total lesion length up to 180 mm by visual estimate. * Occluded with total lesion length ≤ 100 mm by visual estimate. * If lesion is restenotic, most recent PTA treatment must be \> 3 months prior to enrollment. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Life expectancy, documented in the Investigator's opinion, of less than 12 months; 2. Hemorrhagic stroke or cardiac event (e.g. STEMI, unstable angina) within 6 months prior to enrollment; 3. Known allergies or sensitivities to heparin, aspirin, other anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapies, and/or paclitaxel; 4. Known hypersensitivity or contraindication to contrast dye that, in the opinion of the investigator, cannot be adequately pre-medicated; 5. Chronic renal insufficiency with serum creatinine \> 2.0 mg/dL within 30 days of index procedure or treatment with dialysis; 6. Platelet count \< 80,000 mm 3 or \> 600,000 mm 3 or history of bleeding diathesis; 7. Receiving immunosuppressive therapy; 8. Septicemia at the time of enrollment; 9. Any major intervention planned within 30 days post index procedure; 10. Presence of other hemodynamically significant outflow lesions in the target limb requiring intervention within 30 days of enrollment; 11. Failure to successfully cross the target lesion with a guidewire; 12. Failure to successfully pre-dilate the target vessel; 13. Patient has lesion that requires the use of adjunctive primary treatment modalities (i.e. laser, atherectomy, scoring/cutting balloon, other debulking devices, etc.) during the index procedure; 14. History of major amputation in the target limb; 15. Target lesion or vessel has ever been previously treated with stent (e.g. in-stent restenosis) or surgery. Target lesion or vessel has been treated with atherectomy or a DCB in the past 12 months; 16. Pregnant or breast feeding; 17. Presence of aneurysm in the target vessel; 18. Acute ischemia and/or acute thrombosis of the SFA/PPA prior to enrollment; 19. Patient has significant inflow disease which cannot be treated prior to the target lesion treatment; 20. Patient has perforated targeted vessel as evidenced by extravasation of contrast media; 21. Patient has severe calcification that renders the lesion undilatable; 22. Current participation in another investigational drug or device clinical trial that has not completed the primary endpoint at the time of randomization/enrollment or that clinically interferes with the current trial endpoints.

Study Plan

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Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
RANGER™ Paclitaxel Coated Balloon Catheter angioplasty in the SFA/PPA at the index procedure. Subjects will be randomized 3:1 to the drug coated or standard angioplasty balloon.

Group II

Active Comparator
Standard Balloon Catheter angioplasty in the SFA/PPA at the index procedure. Subjects will be randomized 3:1 to the drug coated or standard angioplasty balloon.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 67 locations

Suspended

St. Joseph Hospital

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Suspended

Community Hospital

Munster, United States
Suspended

King's Daughters Medical Center - Kentucky Heart Institute

Ashland, United States
Suspended

Terrebonne General Medical Center

Houma, United States
Completed67 Study Centers