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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2025
Main ID:  NCT04390009
Date of registration: 12/05/2020
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Brain Health Alliance
Public title: Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis EPSMS
Scientific title: Exploratory Study of Entire-body PET Scans for Multiple Sclerosis
Date of first enrolment: September 30, 2024
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04390009
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Early Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Carl Taswell, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone: 949-481-3121
Email: ctaswell@brainhealthalliance.org
Affiliation: 
Name:     Carl Taswell, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone: 949-481-3121
Email: ctaswell@brainhealthalliance.org
Affiliation: 
Name:     Carl Taswell, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Brain Health Alliance
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients diagnosed by a credentialed neurologist experienced
with care of multiple sclerosis patients.

- Normal healthy subjects.

- Willing and able to lie motionless on the PET-CT scanner bed for at least 10 minutes
and up to 20 minutes for the duration of the PET-CT medical imaging scan.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Any additional complicating medical illness other than MS including any other
neuropsychiatric illness unrelated to MS diagnosed prior to the onset of initial
symptoms of MS.

- Pregnancy or breast feeding.

- Diabetes or other metabolic-endocrine disorders.

- Any known concomitant acute infection.

- History of metastatic or locally invasive cancer.

- Recent surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy.



Age minimum: 25 Years
Age maximum: 55 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Multiple Sclerosis
Intervention(s)
Diagnostic Test: Entire-body PET-CT scans
Drug: Amyvid radiopharmaceutical
Primary Outcome(s)
Entire-body PET imaging of demyelination of peripheral and central nervous system [Time Frame: During 1 day single PET-CT scan]
Psychometric questionnaire for monitoring psychological health [Time Frame: Up to 90 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
BHA-2020-11
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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