Status:

UNKNOWN

Abdominal Binders to Treat Orthostatic Hypotension in Parkinsonian Syndromes

Lead Sponsor:

Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Innsbruck

Conditions:

Parkinson Disease

Multiple System Atrophy, Parkinson Variant

Eligibility:

All Genders

50-85 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of the present clinical trial is to determine whether the use of an elastic abdominal binder is effective in the non-pharmacological management of symptomatic, neurogenic orthostatic hypot...

Detailed Description

This is a monocentric, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover phase II clinical trial with an open-label treatment extension phase. The investigators plan to recruit n = 30 individual...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • diagnosis of possible or probable MSA-P (Gilman 2008) or clinically established PD (Postuma 2015);
  • 50 to 85 years of age;
  • laboratory-confirmed symptomatic (i.e. OHQ - OH Symptom Assessment item #1 ≥ 4), neurogenic OH at screening visit or previously diagnosed as such (i.e. neurogenic OH ratio \[≤ 0.492 Δ heart rate rise/systolic BP fall\] or missing BP overshoot at phase IV of Valsalva maneuver;
  • stable medication schedule in the preceding 3 weeks;
  • no infectious disease in the preceding 3 weeks;
  • Hoehn \& Yahr stage ≤ 3;
  • gait item of the Unified MSA Rating Scale (UMSARS) Part II or the Movement Disorder Society - Unified PD Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Part III score \< 3;
  • body sway item of the UMSARS II/MDS-UPDRS III score \< 3;
  • arising from chair item of the UMSARS II/MDS-UPDRS III score \< 3;
  • full legal capacity;
  • written informed consent has been obtained.

Exclusion

  • participation in other interventional trials;
  • prescribed and regular use of abdominal binders OR compression stockings for OH treatment;
  • other major neurologic or psychiatric diseases which could influence OH or gait;
  • untreated diabetes mellitus with clinical features of peripheral neuropathy;
  • non-neurological causes of gait disorders;
  • major cardiac diseases (ischemic, structural, arrhythmias);
  • evidence of varices (venous insufficiency stage ≥ C2, "varicose veins");
  • known abdominal aortic aneurism;
  • indwelling catheterisation;
  • recent surgery (3 months) requiring anaesthesia;
  • known or suspected pregnancy;
  • breast-feeding female participants.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 17 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

June 1 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04920552

Start Date

May 17 2021

End Date

June 1 2025

Last Update

August 14 2023

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Medical University Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, 6020