Open Label Study for the Use of Transcranial Ultrasound for Treatment of Age-Related Frailty
NCT ID: NCT04770350
Last Updated: 2022-09-28
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
EARLY_PHASE1
50 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2023-09-01
2024-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Experimental
Participants will undergo ten to thirty minutes of transcranial ultrasound treatment. The sanitation device will be aimed at the hypothalamus. Targeting will include reference to scalp fiducials based on the obtained MRI; confirmation of target accuracy will either be obtained by Doppler waveform confirmation or optical tracking technology which co-registers patient neuroimaging with real space.
Focused Ultrasound
The DWL Doppler ultrasound device enables visual and auditory waveform confirmation of the middle cerebral artery, and optical tracking technology (e.g., AntNeuro Visor2™ system) may be used in tandem with the Brainsonix ultrasound device to track a patient's brain in virtual space as well as their physical location, thereby ensuring accurate placement.
Interventions
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Focused Ultrasound
The DWL Doppler ultrasound device enables visual and auditory waveform confirmation of the middle cerebral artery, and optical tracking technology (e.g., AntNeuro Visor2™ system) may be used in tandem with the Brainsonix ultrasound device to track a patient's brain in virtual space as well as their physical location, thereby ensuring accurate placement.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Clinical appraisal by physician indicating signs of frailty (apart from a co-occuring condition), scoring 3\<x\<7 as denoted by the CSHA Clinical Frailty Scale (Rockwood, Song, MacKnight, et al, 2005; Golpanian, DiFede, Pujol, et al., 2016)
* MRI of the brain including volume measurement of the hypothalamus
Exclusion Criteria
* Subjects who would not be able to lay down without excessive movement in a calm environment sufficiently long enough to be able to achieve sleep
* Pregnancy, women who may become pregnant or are breastfeeding
* Advanced terminal illness
* Subjects with scalp rash or open wounds on the scalp (for example from treatment of squamous cell cancer)
45 Years
95 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Neurological Associates of West Los Angeles
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Sheldon Jordan, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Neurological Associates - The Interventional Group
Locations
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Neurological Associates of West Los Angeles
Santa Monica, California, United States
Countries
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References
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Tompkins BA, DiFede DL, Khan A, Landin AM, Schulman IH, Pujol MV, Heldman AW, Miki R, Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ, Goldstein BJ, Mushtaq M, Levis-Dusseau S, Byrnes JJ, Lowery M, Natsumeda M, Delgado C, Saltzman R, Vidro-Casiano M, Da Fonseca M, Golpanian S, Premer C, Medina A, Valasaki K, Florea V, Anderson E, El-Khorazaty J, Mendizabal A, Green G, Oliva AA, Hare JM. Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ameliorate Aging Frailty: A Phase II Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2017 Oct 12;72(11):1513-1522. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glx137.
Zhang Y, Kim MS, Jia B, Yan J, Zuniga-Hertz JP, Han C, Cai D. Hypothalamic stem cells control ageing speed partly through exosomal miRNAs. Nature. 2017 Aug 3;548(7665):52-57. doi: 10.1038/nature23282. Epub 2017 Jul 26.
Clegg A, Young J, Iliffe S, Rikkert MO, Rockwood K. Frailty in elderly people. Lancet. 2013 Mar 2;381(9868):752-62. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62167-9. Epub 2013 Feb 8.
Song X, Mitnitski A, Rockwood K. Prevalence and 10-year outcomes of frailty in older adults in relation to deficit accumulation. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Apr;58(4):681-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02764.x. Epub 2010 Mar 22.
Lopez-Otin C, Blasco MA, Partridge L, Serrano M, Kroemer G. The hallmarks of aging. Cell. 2013 Jun 6;153(6):1194-217. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.039.
Rockwood K, Song X, MacKnight C, Bergman H, Hogan DB, McDowell I, Mitnitski A. A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people. CMAJ. 2005 Aug 30;173(5):489-95. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.050051.
Juma S, Taabazuing MM, Montero-Odasso M. Clinical Frailty Scale in an Acute Medicine Unit: a Simple Tool That Predicts Length of Stay. Can Geriatr J. 2016 Jun 29;19(2):34-9. doi: 10.5770/cgj.19.196. eCollection 2016 Jun.
Islam A, Muir-Hunter SW, Speechley M, Montero-Odasso M. Facilitating Frailty Identification: Comparison of Two Methods among Community-Dwelling Order Adults. J Frailty Aging. 2014;3(4):216-21. doi: 10.14283/jfa.2014.27.
Other Identifiers
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fUS-Frailty
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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