Clinical trialNCT07057817RecruitingInterventional

The ACHILLS Trial; Application of Cerament in Heel Infection for Lower Limb Salvage

SponsorRoyal College of Surgeons, IrelandEnrollment30CalcanectomyDiabetesOsteomyelitis

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Summary

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The ACHILLS Trial is a multicentre randomised controlled feasibility study comparing partial calcanectomy with and without the use of an antibiotic-impregnated bone graft substitute (Cerament G) for treating calcaneal osteomyelitis, specifically on wound healing rates, re-infection, and overall efficacy in a sample of 30 patients over a one-year period.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

James Walsh
Beaumont Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Ireland

University Hospital Galway
Galway, Ireland
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 1 Jan 2026
Primary completion: 31 Jul 2029
Completion: 31 Dec 2029
Last update posted: 22 Jul 2026
Registered enrollment: 30
Registry id: NCT07057817

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.