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Status unknownNCT04244513Updated Jul 20, 2022

Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment for Chorea in Huntington's Disease

An interventional study of Deep brain stimulation in Huntington Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation, sponsored by Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals. Status unknown at 3 sites in China. Open to participants aged 30 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-07-20.

Sponsored by Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
30 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

  1. Evaluating therapeutic effects of globus pallidus internus (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) on Huntington's disease (HD) patients with chorea;
  2. Explore the relationship between brain network conditions and DBS efficacy in HD patients
  3. Explore the effect of different programmed parameters on the treatment of patients with DBS
Read the detailed description
  1. Evaluating therapeutic effects of GPi-DBS on HD patients with chorea: Clinical data of patients at different treatment time points will be collected, using different clinical assessments. The clinical case report form for HD-DBS is consistent with Enroll HD project and the case report form is attached in the appendix. The main purpose is to determine the efficiency of DBS treatment for HD with chorea by comparing the patients' status before and after surgery.

Primary endpoints: Changes in chorea score of UHDRS, changes in total motor score (UHDRS).

Secondary endpoints: changes in cognition will be assessed by stroop interference test, stroop word reading test, stroop colour naming test, trail making test, symbol digit modality test and mini-mental state examination(MMSE); changes in anxiety assessed by Hamilton Anxiety Scale(HAMA); changes in depression assessed by Hamilton depression scale(HAMD) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); changes in the frequency and severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms assessed by the Problem Behaviours Assessment for HD and changes in quality-of-life assessed by UHDRS functional assessment and UHDRS total functional capacity assessment.

2 Explore the relationship between brain network conditions and DBS efficacy in HD patients The electrophysiological signals during the operation of HD patients will be collected and analyzed, and compared with the postoperative disease conditions, to determine the relationship between the patient's EEG activity and the mechanism of disease development, disease progression, and treatment effect.

  1. Explore the effect of different programmed parameters on the treatment of patients with DBS After the HD patient is turned on, the patient is programmed to adjust the program control parameters of different patients during adjustment, and the effects of different program control parameters on the patient, tolerance, and related side effects are clarified.
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Conditions studied

  • Huntington Disease
  • Deep Brain Stimulation

Keywords

  • Deep brain stimulation
  • Chorea
  • Huntington Disease
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In context

Huntington Disease

293 studies on the registry are indexed under Huntington Disease; 54 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 40 is close to the median of 40 across 207 interventional studies indexed under Huntington Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
30 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Huntington's Disease disgnosis by gene
  2. Predominant chorea
  3. UHDRS score ≥30
  4. (MMSE) score meets the education level
  5. No plan to change medication within 12 months after randomization
  6. Agree to enroll into the clinical trial

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Chorea caused by other diseases
  2. Concurrently or previously had other neurological disorders
  3. Severe psychiatric disease
  4. Unstable condition or severe heart, lung, liver, kidney, or hematopoietic diseases
  5. Have a history of cancer unless it has been cured or does not require treatment for the next 5 years
  6. to an MRI scan
  7. Acute psychiatric symptomatology in the last 2 months including suicide ideation, angry or aggressive behaviour, and hallucinations
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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MMSE and MoCA

Short tests of memory and thinking, each scored out of 30. Lower scores suggest more difficulty; criteria give a range, either to include people with memory problems or to leave them out.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
40 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    HD-DBS

    This group will be routinely activated after surgery and then stimulated for 6 months.

    Device: Deep brain stimulation

  • Sham comparator
    HD-sham-DBS

    This group of patients will be re-launched 3 months after surgery, continued stimulation for 3 months

    Device: Deep brain stimulation

Interventions

  • DeviceDeep brain stimulation

    the HD-DBS arm will be routinely activated after surgery and then stimulated for 6 months(6 months stimulation). The HD-shamDBS arm will be re-launched 3 months after surgery, continued stimulation for 3 months(3 months stimulation), and then entered the open study.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale(UHDRS)-total score difference

    Difference between groups in the UHDRS total score at 3 months postoperative;from 0 to 124 points; the higher scores mean a worse outcome

    Time frame: 3 months postoperatively compared between groups

  2. Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale(UHDRS)-total score difference

    Difference in the UHDRS total score at 6 months postoperative compared with baseline

    Time frame: 6 months postoperatively compared with baseline

Secondary outcomes

  1. UHDRS-Chorea subscore difference

    Difference in the UHDRS chorea subscore at 6 months postoperative compared with baseline

    Time frame: 6 months postoperatively compared with baseline

  2. Mental Behavior Rating Scale difference

    the total score of MMSE at 6 months postoperative compared with baseline

    Time frame: 6 months postoperatively compared with baseline

  3. Mental Behavior Rating Scale difference

    the total score of BDI at 6 months postoperative compared with baseline

    Time frame: 6 months postoperatively compared with baseline

  4. EuroQol five dimensions questionnaire (EQ-5D) difference

    the total score of EQ-5D at 6 months postoperative compared with baseline

    Time frame: 6 months postoperatively compared with baseline

  5. Neuroimage

    MRI

    Time frame: preoperative, 3 months and 6 months postoperative

  6. electrophysiology

    EEG and Local field potential (LFP) of GPi and GPe in patients with Huntington's Disease

    Time frame: 3 to 5 days postoperative

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Study locations

1 of 3 sites recruiting
  • Beijing Tiantan Hospital
    Beijing, Beijing 100070, China
    Recruiting
    • Jianguo Zhang, Ph.D · Contactzjguo73@126.com · +86-13601294613
    • Anchao Yang, Ph.D · Contactyang.anchao@163.com · +86-13911853681
    • Yue Huang, Ph.D · Sub investigator
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Not yet recruiting
  • West China Hospital, Sichuan University
    Chengdu, Sichuan, China
    Not yet recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 20, 2022, 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
NCT04244513
Lead sponsor
Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals
Collaborators
Medtronic
Responsible party
Zhang Jianguo (Director of functional neurosurgery in Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing Tiantan Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 28, 2020
Start date
Feb 1, 2020
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 30, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 20, 2022

Study contacts

Yiying Li, M.D.
Contact
yyli888@sina.com
+86-59975612
Jianguo Zhang, Ph.D
study chair · Beijing Tiantan Hospital

Oversight

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