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Status unknownNCT03969732CAAUpdated Mar 12, 2021

Multimodal Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis in CAA

A Phase 3 interventional study of 1. amyloid PET;2. T807 PET in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Intracranial Hemorrhages and Alzheimer Disease, sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-03-12.

Sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital · Phase 3, Interventional, and Diagnostic

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Mar 2021), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 8 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Sep 2018, registered May 2019).
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
240
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

By combination of plasma (Aβ40, Aβ42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau, etc.), genetic (ApoE ε2 or ε4 allele), MRI (cerebral perfusion, microbleeds, cortical superficial siderosis, enlarged perivascular space, etc.) and PET imaging (amyloid and tau) biomarkers, the study aims to

  1. Enhance the diagnostic potentials of the radiological biomarkers by combining MRI and amyloid PET in CAA patients.
  2. Investigate the biological pathogenesis in CAA patients using the less invasive plasma biomarkers and to correlate with structural and function imaging, including MRI, amyloid and tau imaging.
  3. Study the characteristics of long-term progression of amyloid deposition in CAA patients using the radiological, biochemical and genetic biomarkers.
  4. Study the prognosis predicting markers.
Read the detailed description

Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) consists of about a quarter of stroke subtype. For elderly, cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a common etiology of ICH. In National Taiwan University Hospital, we have established a CAA team including neurologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians since 2014. We hope to go deep into the diagnosis and pathophysiology of CAA. To the best of our knowledge, there is no other CAA team in Taiwan.

In patients with CAA, abnormal beta amyloid protein diffusely deposits at cerebral vasculatures, which disrupts the normal vessel structure and increases the risk of bleeding. The standard diagnosis for CAA requires pathological evidences of amyloid deposition at cerebral arteries. Clinically, a diagnosis of CAA-related ICH is usually only made in an elderly developing cortical or subcortical lobar ICH without undergoing biopsy. Brain images using the SWI sequence of MRI study may show lobar microbleeds in patients with CAA. However, there is still no direct and precise non-invasive diagnostic tool for CAA until now.

Amyloid PET, using 11C-PiB to image amyloid burden, has been used for detecting the cerebral amyloid protein deposition in patients with Alzheimer's dementia (AD) for years. Recently, amyloid PET has also been applied in the diagnosis of CAA. CAA patients showed diffusely increased global PiB retention as compared to control subjects and the distribution of PiB retention is also different from that seen in patients with AD in general. Nevertheless, the applications of amyloid PET in CAA diagnosis are still not well established and many important issues still need to be extensively addressed. Furthermore, tau PET has emerged as a potential molecular imaging marker for SVD. Tau PET provides a noninvasive method for measuring brain tau load. The correlation of tau PET findings in patients with CAA has not been investigated before.

In addition, ApoE gene has been reported to be risk factor for sporadic CAA as well as AD. Biochemical biomarkers, such as the levels of Aβ40 and Aβ42, also help us understand the pathophysiology of CAA. Recently, immunomagnetic reduction (IMR) assay, using bio-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles, has been proved to be a sensitive and accurate tool for the detection of these biological molecules.

By combination of plasma (Aβ40, Aβ42, total tau, and phosphorylated tau, etc.), genetic (ApoE ε2 or ε4 allele), MRI (cerebral perfusion, microbleeds, cortical superficial siderosis, enlarged perivascular space, etc.) and PET imaging (amyloid and tau) biomarkers, the study aims to

  1. Enhance the diagnostic potentials of the radiological biomarkers by combining MRI and amyloid PET in CAA patients.
  2. Investigate the biological pathogenesis in CAA patients using the less invasive plasma biomarkers and to correlate with structural and function imaging, including MRI, amyloid and tau imaging.
  3. Study the characteristics of long-term progression of amyloid deposition in CAA patients using the radiological, biochemical and genetic biomarkers.
  4. Study the prognosis predicting markers.
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Conditions studied

  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages
  • Alzheimer Disease

Keywords

  • Stroke
  • intracerebral hemorrhage
  • cerebral amyloid angiopathy
  • amyloid PET
  • tau PET
  • MRI
  • Aβ
  • ApoE
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In context

Alzheimer Disease

3,678 studies on the registry are indexed under Alzheimer Disease; 872 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 240 is above the median of 70 across 2,808 interventional studies indexed under Alzheimer Disease.

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Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 2,563 studies on the registry; 569 are open to participants now.

Of its 11 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (18%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • ICH:

    1. Age:above 20 years old.
    2. Evidence of intraparenchymal hemorrhage on CT or MRI.
    3. Patient agrees to participate in the study and receive neurophsychological examinations, genetic and biochemical markers test, MRI and PET imaging.
  • AD:

    1. Age:above 20 years old.
    2. Patients who fulfills the clinical criteria of possible or probable Alzheimer's disease (AD).51
    3. Patient agrees to participate in the study and receive neurophsychological examinations, genetic and biochemical markers test, MRI and PET imaging.
  • Control:

    1. Age:above 20 years old.
    2. Patient agrees to participate in the study and receive neurophsychological examinations, genetic and biochemical markers test, MRI and PET imaging.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • ICH:

    1. patients with potential causes of hemorrhage including trauma, structural lesion, brain tumor, or coagulopathy due to systemic disease or medication.
    2. Patients could not receive the PET and MRI studies, including but not limited to poor cooperative agitation impeding adequate study, allergy to contrast medium, hemodynamic instability, implantation of cardiac pacemaker, past history of receiving aneurysm clipping, panic mood to MRI study, impaired kidney function.
    3. Patients with pregnancy or recently having a plan for pregnancy.
    4. Patients with breast feeding or recently having a plan for breast feeding.
    5. Patients with history of allergy to 11C-PiB and 18F-T807, or severe allergy history.
    6. Patient or family who does not agree to participate in the study.
    7. patient with high risk by doctor evaluate.
  • AD:

    1. Patients could not receive the PET and MRI studies, including but not limited to poor cooperative agitation impeding adequate study, allergy to contrast medium, hemodynamic instability, implantation of cardiac pacemaker, past history of receiving aneurysm clipping, panic mood to MRI study, impaired kidney function.
    2. Patients with pregnancy or recently having a plan for pregnancy.
    3. Patients with breast feeding or recently having a plan for breast feeding.
    4. Patients with history of allergy to 11C-PiB and 18F-T807, or severe allergy history.
    5. Patient or family who does not agree to participate in the study.
    6. patient with high risk by doctor evaluate.
  • Control:

    1. History of neurological or psychiatric disease, abnormal neurological examination.
    2. Patients could not receive the PET and MRI studies, including but not limited to poor cooperative agitation impeding adequate study, allergy to contrast medium, hemodynamic instability, implantation of cardiac pacemaker, past history of receiving aneurysm clipping, panic mood to MRI study, impaired kidney function.
    3. Patients with pregnancy or recently having a plan for pregnancy.
    4. Patients with breast feeding or recently having a plan for breast feeding.
    5. Patients with history of allergy to 11C-PiB and 18F-T807, or severe allergy history.
    6. Patient or family who does not agree to participate in the study.
    7. patient with high risk by doctor evaluate.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
240 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    amyloid PET、T807 PET

    PET/CT

    Drug: 1. amyloid PET;2. T807 PET

Interventions

  • Drug1. amyloid PET;2. T807 PET

    1. Dynamic PET acquisition for 60 minutes will be acquired after injection of 10 mCi 11C-PiB (39 frames: 8 x 15 seconds, 4 x 60 seconds, 27 x120 seconds). 2. Dynamic PET imaging 3D acquisition will be acquired 80 minutes after injection of 10 mCi 18F-T807 (4 x 300 seconds)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. PET imaging

    PET data will reconstruct with ordered set expectation maximization, corrected for attenuation, and each frame will be evaluated to verify adequate count statistics and absence of head motion.

    Time frame: in 3 days

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • National Taiwan Univeristy Hospital
    Taipei, 100, Taiwan
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 12, 2021, 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
NCT03969732
Lead sponsor
National Taiwan University Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 31, 2019
Start date
Sep 27, 2018
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2022 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 31, 2022 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 12, 2021

Oversight

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