Study of Electrical Impedance Myography (EIM) in ALS

Last updated: May 10, 2016
Sponsor: Skulpt, Inc.
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

N/A

Condition

Myasthenia Gravis (Chronic Weakness)

Neurologic Disorders

Memory Loss

Treatment

N/A

Clinical Study ID

NCT02011204
2013P001505
  • Ages 35-80
  • All Genders
  • Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

This trial is studying Electrical Impedance Myography (EIM) for measuring muscle health. The trial is studying people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), other neuromuscular diseases, and healthy volunteers to see if the EIM device can measure disease in muscle tissue.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Early ALS Inclusion Criteria:

  • Sporadic or familial ALS (as defined by revised El Escorial criteria)

  • Onset of weakness or spasticity due to ALS ≤ 36 months prior to the Screening/BaselineVisit.

  • Slow vital capacity (SVC) ≥60% of predicted for gender, height, and age

Exclusion

Early ALS Exclusion Criteria:

  • The presence of unstable psychiatric disease, cognitive impairment, or dementia thatwould impair ability of the subject to provide informed consent, or a history of activesubstance abuse within the prior year. ALS Disease Mimics Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosis of one of the following: a. Pure Lower Motor Neuron Disease (LMND) mimics: i. Multi-focal motor neuropathy ii.Autoimmune motor neuropathy iii. Cervical or lumbosacral radiculopathies with weaknessinvolving more than one extremity or more than a single myotome if restricted to oneextremity. iv. Multiple peripheral mononeuropathies with clinical weakness v. Charcot-Marie-ToothDisease vi. Any condition that produces generalized or localized weakness withoutconcomitant sensory symptoms, including myasthenia gravis or myopathy, that the evaluatingphysician deems mimics ALS. b. Pure Upper Motor Neuron Disease (UMND) mimics: i. Cervical myelopathy ii. Multiplesclerosis iii. Hereditary spastic paraparesis ALS Disease Mimics Exclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosis of possible, probable, probable-laboratory supported, or definite ALS

  • Presence of positive family history of ALS.

  • The presence of unstable psychiatric disease, cognitive impairment, or dementia thatwould impair ability of the subject to provide informed consent, or a history ofactive substance abuse within the prior year. Healthy Volunteer Inclusion Criteria:

  • Absence of a known neurological disorder. Healthy Volunteer Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of ALS, myopathy, neuropathy, ALS mimic disorder or other neurodegenerativedisease.

  • Presence of positive family history of ALS.

  • The presence of unstable psychiatric disease, cognitive impairment, or dementia thatwould impair ability of the subject to provide informed consent, or a history ofactive substance abuse within the prior year.

Please note that this is not a complete listing on all eligibility criteria.

Study Design

Total Participants: 106
Study Start date:
November 01, 2013
Estimated Completion Date:
March 31, 2016

Study Description

This is a multicenter, 9-month study evaluating the effectiveness of electrical impedance myography (EIM) as a diagnostic and disease-tracking tool. In addition, the following will be studied:

  1. Determine EIM device's ability to discriminate between ALS and "look-alike" non-fatal, motor-predominant syndromes;

  2. Track EIM progression over time and determine the best summary EIM measure that could serve as an endpoint in future clinical trials and individual patient care; and,

  3. Determine whether EIM progression is predictive of a combined outcome of survival and progression as measured by ALS Functional Rating Scale, Revised (ALSFRS-R), Hand-held Dynamometry (HHD) and Vital Capacity (VC) measures.

Connect with a study center

  • St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center

    Phoenix, Arizona 85013
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

    Miami, Florida 33136
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts 02114
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Skulpt, Inc

    Boston, Massachusetts 02210
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • SUNY Upstate Medical University

    Syracuse, New York 13210
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157
    United States

    Site Not Available

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