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TerminatedNCT03446833Updated Sep 23, 2019

LFP Beta aDBS Feasibility Study

An interventional study of The LFP Beta aDBS System in Parkinson Disease, sponsored by MedtronicNeuro. Terminated at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 22 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-09-23.

Sponsored by MedtronicNeuro (part of Medtronic) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Device feasibility

Why this study was terminated
Business decision

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Feb 2019, 7 years 8 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
22 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to use local field potentials as control signals for adjusting DBS stimulation settings under varying patient states and to assess patient outcomes.

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Conditions studied

  • Parkinson Disease

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Keywords

  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Deep Brain Stimulation
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In context

Parkinson Disease

4,583 studies on the registry are indexed under Parkinson Disease; 1,097 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 1 is below the median of 40 across 3,365 interventional studies indexed under Parkinson Disease.

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Lead sponsor

MedtronicNeuro is the lead sponsor of 74 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Of its 21 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 17 (81%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
22 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Preoperative:

  1. Subject has the ability to understand and provide written informed consent for participation in the study prior to the study-related procedures being conducted
  2. Subject with levodopa-responsive PD of at least 4 years' duration, with symptoms not adequately controlled with medication, including individuals with motor complications of recent onset (from 4 months to 3 years) or with motor complications of longer-standing duration, and who are eligible for bilateral STN DBS surgery
  3. Subject is ≥ 22 years of age at time of informed consent
  4. Subject is a male or non-pregnant female. If female of child-bearing potential, and if sexually active, must be using, or agree to use, a medically-acceptable method of birth control as confirmed by the investigator
  5. Subject has documented improvement in motor signs ON versus OFF dopaminergic medication, with a change in Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Part III score of > 30% OFF to ON medication
  6. Based on the opinion of the Neurosurgeon, the subject is an acceptable candidate for implant of a DBS System that includes: bilateral DBS leads targeted to the STN, extensions, and neurostimulator
  7. Subject can read and understand English
  8. Subject is willing and able to attend all study-required visits and complete the study procedures
  9. Subject is willing and able to be awake during left and right DBS lead implant surgery and for intraoperative LFP recordings

    Intraoperative:

  10. Required beta band (13 - 30 Hz) signal detected on left and right DBS leads

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria

  1. Subject has tremor dominant PD ≥ 2 at rest in head, upper, or lower extremities as measured on the UPDRS Part III Question 20
  2. Subject requires diathermy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
  3. Subject has a history of prior intracranial surgery (eg, DBS, lesioning, previous surgical ablation)
  4. Subject is unable to undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the head for planning the surgical DBS lead implants
  5. Based on the opinion of the Neurosurgeon, the subject has a clinically significant structural abnormality(ies) of the brain that would jeopardize subject safety during the DBS lead implant, conduct of the study, or confound the subject's assessments
  6. Subject has a metallic implant in the head, (eg, aneurysm clip, cochlear implant)
  7. Subject has a major comorbidity increasing the risk of surgery (eg, prior stroke, severe diabetes, severe hypertension, immunocompromised, seizure disorder, active infection, need for chronic anticoagulation other than aspirin)
  8. Subject has a neurocognitive impairment which exceeds the criteria for PD mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) as determined from the center's clinical neuropsychological evaluation prior to DBS for PD
  9. Subject has, or plans to obtain, an implanted electrical stimulation medical device anywhere in the body (eg, cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, spinal cord stimulator)
  10. Subject has, or plans to obtain, an implanted medication pump (eg, DUOPATM infusion pump) and/or portable infusion pump
  11. Based on the opinion of the investigator, the subject has an abnormal neurological examination that would preclude them from study participation
  12. Subject is breast feeding
  13. Subject has Mattis Dementia Rating Scale-2 (DRS-2) score ≤ 130
  14. Subject has Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) > 25
  15. Subject is currently participating, or plans to participate, in another investigational study unless written approval is provided by the Medtronic study team
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Device feasibility
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
1 participant (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    All Subjects

    Subjects who meet the intraoperative criteria will receive The LFP Beta aDBS System.

    Device: The LFP Beta aDBS System

Interventions

  • DeviceThe LFP Beta aDBS System

    The LFP Beta aDBS System is intended for use in patients receiving DBS for Parkinson's Disease where LFPs may be recorded and analyzed.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Operational Performance: Stimulation amplitude and LFP signals

    To characterize the stimulation amplitude and LFP signals during execution of the Medtronic LFP -based aDBS adaptive algorithm. Descriptive statistics will be reported across different PD medication states and subject activities.

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months post implant

Secondary outcomes

  1. Acute Clinical Effect: motor examination

    The UPDRS III motor exam score will be assessed. Descriptive statistics will be reported.

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months post implant

  2. Acute Clinical Effect: speech

    UPDRS III item 18 will be used to score a standardized reading passage. Descriptive statistics will be reported.

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months post implant

  3. Acute Clinical Effect: dyskinesia

    UPDRS IV item 33 will be used to assess dyskinesias. Descriptive statistics will be reported.

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months post implant

Other outcomes

  1. Number of participants with adverse events and device deficiencies

    To characterize the number of participants with serious, device-related, therapy related, and/or procedure-related adverse events and all device deficiencies assess from enrollment through study completion, using MedRA coding

    Time frame: Through Study Completion, an average of 4 years

  2. Number of participants with acute stimulation-induced effects

    To characterize the number of participants with acute stimulation-induced effects of the Medtronic LFP-based aDBS algorithm assessed during all study visits that the aDBS algorithm is enabled, using MedDRA coding.

    Time frame: Approximately 6 months post implant

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Stanford
    Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
  • UPMC
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 23, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03446833
Lead sponsor
MedtronicNeuro
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 27, 2018
Start date
Sep 4, 2018
Primary completion
Feb 6, 2019
Completion
Feb 6, 2019
Last update
Sep 23, 2019

Study contacts

aDBS Clinical Research Team
study director · Medtronic RTG Brain Therapies

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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