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Filter by:The primary aim is to characterize the prevalence, severity and quality of musculoskeletal nociceptive pain in adult patients with neuromuscular disorders (NMD). The secondary objectives are to evaluate whether severity and distribution of muscle pain is associated with muscle function, and to assess whether muscle pain is associated with alterations of muscle elasticity and muscle stiffness. Results of patients with neuromuscular disorders will be compared to age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers. Approx. 70 patients with neuromuscular disorders and 20 healthy volunteers will be enrolled, including patients with the following neuromuscular disorders: histologically confirmed inclusion body myositis (IBM), genetically confirmed late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD), genetically confirmed spinal muscular atrophy type 3 (SMA3), genetically confirmed facio-scapulo-humeral muscle dystrophy (FSHD), genetically confirmed myotonic dystrophy type 1 or type 2 (DM1, DM2). The duration of patient recruitment will be around 12 months.
This is a pilot study (phase 1 clinical trial) to evaluate the safety and tolerability of phenylbutyrate in IBM. In this open label study, 10 patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis will be treated with phenylbutyrate (3 gm twice daily) for 3 months. There will be a run-in period, during which certain biomarkers will be measured at baseline and at the end of the run-in period in addition to final measurement at the end of the treatment period.
The primary aim of this study is to assess the changes in the impedance parameters of muscles in inclusion body myositis (IBM) through electrical impedance myography (EIM), an emerging non-invasive electrodiagnostic technology. Muscle impedance parameters can potentially serve as an objective biomarker reflecting disease progression and severity.
A study looking at the effect of pioglitazone in skeletal muscle of patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM).
This study aims at assessing the gene expression in the muscles of patients suffering from sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM) at various stages of the disease, by comparison with muscles of control subject. The investigators use the RNA-seq technique to analyze the gene expression levels and potential alternate transcripts, including long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), in muscle tissue samples. The gene expression profiles will point to the genes of interest that can then become the object of future studies, in which epigenetic changes of these genes will be explored further. The value of those possible biomarkers will be assessed. The investigators will also evaluate the correlation between the gene expression profile, the degree of functional impairment, the histological picture and the presence or absence of autoantibodies.
Funding Source - FDA Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the study drug, arimoclomol in IBM patients.
This extension study will provide data to further evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of three doses of BYM338 and to assess the long-term effects of BYM338 in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. The extension study was planned to consist of a Screening epoch (to assess patient eligibility), followed by a Treatment Period 1 epoch (double-blind and placebo-controlled), and a Treatment Period 2 epoch (open-label). A Post-treatment Follow-up (FUP) epoch was also planned for patients who discontinued prematurely. Patients who complete the core study and qualify for this extension study entered Treatment Period 1 and continued on the study drug to which they were randomized in the core study (either to one of the three bimagrumab doses (1 mg/kg, 3 mg/kg, and 10mg/kg) or placebo) during Treatment Period 1. Thus, Treatment Period 1 was double-blind and placebo-controlled. Participants were to continue in Treatment Period 1 until the dose with the best benefit-risk profile was determined from the core study data and selected (duration of Treatment Period 1 was estimated to be between 6 and 8 months). Once the dose with the best benefit-risk profile was selected, all participants (including those who were receiving placebo) were planned to enter Treatment Period 2 and switch to open-label treatment with bimagrumab at the selected dose. The core study has been completed but since the core study did not meet the primary end point (no bimagrumab dose was identified based on the core study efficacy results) the extension study was terminated as per protocol/sponsor's decision; therefore, no patients had entered Treatment Period 2. Instead, all patients were to return for the End of Treatment Period 1 (EOT1) visit at their next scheduled visit. As per protocol, all patients who discontinued study medication during Treatment Period 1 for any reason, including due to the study having been stopped as per protocol/sponsor's decision, were to have entered and complete the 6-month FUP after their EOT1 visit. Due to the nature of the design of the core and extension studies and termination of study medication in the extension study, the treatment duration for individual patients varied considerably. Consequently, the number of patients contributing data to the efficacy analyses at Week 104 and later timepoints was decreased.
Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) is the most frequent inflammatory myopathy in patients over 50. It is a slowly progressive, but today untreatable (notably by classical immunosuppressants) disease. Rapamycin used in organ transplantation blocks the activity of T effector cells, preserves T regulatory cells and induces autophagy (protein degradation), all parameters impaired during IBM. RAPAMI is a prospective, randomised, controlled, double blind, monocentric, phase IIb trial evaluating rapamycine against placebo.
This study evaluates the effects of a low-intensity blood-flow restricted exerciser protocol on patient reported physical function, in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. The study is designed as a parallel group randomized controlled trial with a treatment group and a control group.
This study is an open-label, long-term study for those patients who participated in the prior proof-of-concept protocol, in which the preliminary efficacy for BYM338 in patients with sIBM was demonstrated after a single 30 mg/kg i.v. dose of BYM338. This study is designed to confirm the efficacy, safety and tolerability of BYM338 in sIBM with long-term dosing. However due to lack of efficacy in patients with sIBM, the study was terminated early.