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ExAblate Transcranial MR Guided Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01772693

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Official title

A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety and Initial Effectiveness of ExAblate Transcranial MR Guided Focused Ultrasound for Unilateral Thalamotomy in the Treatment of Medication-Refractory Tremor Dominant Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease.

Brief summary

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This is a feasibility study to evaluate the safety and initial effectiveness of unilateral ExAblate thermal ablation of the Vim thalamic nucleus of subjects suffering from medication-refractory, idiopathic, tremor-dominant PD, using the ExAblate Transcranial system compared to a Sham Vim thalamotomy procedure. Data will be collected to establish the basic safety of this type of treatment as the basis for later studies that will evaluate its full clinical efficacy. The Sham treatment data will be used to evaluate placebo effect from treatment.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01772693
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
InSightec
Industry
Enrollment
27 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
30 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Sep 2012 (Actual)
Primary completion
Apr 26, 2016 (Actual)
Completion
Mar 2019 (Actual)
Last update posted
Oct 9, 2020

2012 – 2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
2
U.S. states
2
U.S. cities
2
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia 22908 —
Swedish Medical Center Seattle Washington 98122 —

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