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Administrative data

NCT number NCT04003922
Other study ID # 2019-21
Secondary ID 2019-A00888-49
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date April 21, 2020
Est. completion date October 2025

Study information

Verified date January 2024
Source Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Contact Anne Lépine
Phone 0491387267
Email anne.lepine@ap-hm.fr
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Since the initial study of cases reported between 2009 and 2015, adalimumab has become in France the immunomodulatory reference treatment used after failure of corticosteroids and immunoglobulins before a possible recourse to the hemispherotomy. This observational study is intended to document the long-term efficacy and safety of Adalimumab therapy in patients with Rasmussen encephalitis.


Description:

Rasmussen Encephalitis (ER) is a particularly severe chronic inflammatory brain disorder resulting in the progressive destruction of a hemisphere. It is a rare disease although at present no precise prevalence is available. It begins preferentially in children. This inflammatory process is accompanied by a progressive loss of function of the affected hemisphere, associated with a pharmaco-resistant partial epilepsy. The diagnosis is based on a bundle of clinical, radiological and electroencephalographic arguments. CSF analysis directs diagnosis in 50% of cases. No anti-epileptic treatment can stop seizures. Only hemispherotomy (surgical disconnection of a cerebral hemisphere) allows it but it is associated with definitive motor and cognitive deficits. Over the last 20 years, new therapeutic trials have focused on immuno-modulatory treatments targeted at the T-lymphocyte pathway, including tacrolimus. Although they seem to be more effective than immunoglobulins or corticosteroids, it remains transient. In addition, the number of published cases is low. In this context, starting in 2009, it has been proposed to use adalimumab (Ab anti TNF) based on: - 1 / study of a case index - 2 / knowledge of the pathophysiology of Rasmussen Encephalitis. To date, very few data provide precise information on the efficacy or tolerance of the use of this product in the longer term. This information is essential to confirm the place of adalimumab in the therapeutic arsenal against Rasmussen encephalitis. Thus, in the continuation of the work carried out previously (French study on the cases between 2009 and 2015), the aim of this research projet is to complete the follow-up of the patients who previously took part in in the first study and to establish the follow-up of the patients treated by adalimumab since then.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 40
Est. completion date October 2025
Est. primary completion date April 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 2 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Confirmed diagnosis of Rasmussen Encephalitis - Patient aged more than 2 years - Compliant treatment with adalimumab Exclusion Criteria: - Patient with a differential diagnosis - Patient suffering from Rassmussen Encephalitis but not treated with adalimumab - Patient who has not signed the informed consent

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Adalimumab treatment
Retrospective observational study initially and then prospective with inclusion of all the patients carrying an ER treated by Adalimumab in France. Follow-up will continue for one year if adalimumab is discontinued.

Locations

Country Name City State
France Chu de Bordeaux Bordeaux
France Chu Brest Brest
France Chru de Lille Lille
France Chu Limoges Limoges
France Hospices Civils de Lyon Lyon
France Service Neuropédiatrie Marseille
France Chu Montpellier Montpellier
France Chu de Nancy Nancy
France Chu Necker Ap-Hp Paris
France Chu Pitie Salpietriere Ap-Hp Paris
France Chu Robert Debre Paris
France Fondation Adolphe de Rothshild Paris
France Chu de Rennes Rennes
France Chu Strasbourg Strasbourg
France Chu Toulouse Toulouse
France Chru de Tours Tours

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Efficiency of the treatment measured by the reduction of the number of epileptic seizures The change of epileptic seizures (Will be considered as a responder patient any patient with a 50% decrease in the number of seizures between the time of inclusion and 6 months after the start of treatment). This response to treatment is re-evaluated at 12 months then every 6 months for 5 years. 5 years
Primary Efficiency of the treatment measured by the stability if the cognitive assessment Stability of the cognitive assessment: variation of less than 10 points on each of the different composite indices (QIT, ICV, IRF, IMT, IVT) of age-appropriate Weschler scales, between two cognitive assessments of 6 months. 6 months
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