Status:

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Safety of a Strategy Combining Etanercept Administration with Repeated Contrast Ultrasound in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Lead Sponsor:

Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Conditions:

Alzheimer Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

50-85 years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a clinico-pathological entity combining multiple and varied neuropathological lesions with characteristic abnormal accumulations (amyloid Beta (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrill...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Positive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease according to IWG2 criteria
  • Biological profile in favour of Alzheimer's disease
  • Age ≥ 50 years and ≤ 85 years
  • Affiliated or beneficiary of a social insurance scheme
  • Patient suffering from mild AD with little or no impact on autonomy, MMSE score ≥20 at inclusion
  • Fazekas score \<=1
  • Presence of a family or a person at home who can monitor the occurrence of adverse events
  • Sufficient command of the French language to take neuropsychological tests.
  • Have undergone a full neuropsychological assessment within 6 months.
  • If anticholinesterase treatment, stability of treatment for at least three months.
  • Signed, free and informed consent from the patient and the trusted support person.

Exclusion

  • Patient previously treated with anti-TNF alpha (e.g. etanercept).
  • Other cause of major neurocognitive disorder.
  • Participation in another drug study
  • Absolute contraindication to MRI (e.g. pacemaker, implantable stimulator, intra-orbital metallic foreign body);
  • Contraindication to lumbar puncture.
  • History of bleeding diathesis;
  • Severe chronic respiratory disease;
  • Patient on anticoagulant therapy
  • Right-to-left shunt, severe pulmonary arterial hypertension;
  • Known cerebral vasculopathy; (Fazekas greater than 1), sequelae of ACI.
  • Treatment with Anakinra, abatacept or sulfasalazine.
  • Patients who have undergone major surgery within 28 days of the first day of the study.
  • Allergy to gadolinium, or any contraindication to contrast products used for brain imaging (in particular severe renal insufficiency with a glomerular filtration rate \<30 ml / min / 1.73 m2).
  • Allergy to xylocaine
  • Epilepsy or drugs that lower the epileptogenic threshold (see Appendix 6).
  • Major depressive syndrome despite appropriate treatment and/or psychotic symptoms (according to DSM IV);
  • MRI characteristic of an active or acute neurological process (infection, tumour) or macro-haemorrhage.
  • Non-menopausal women
  • Patient benefiting from a legal protection measure other than guardianship or curatorship.
  • Optic neuritis
  • Manifestations of multiple sclerosis
  • Live vaccinations (yellow fever, BCG) within 4 weeks of starting etanercept treatment.
  • History of hepatitis B or C
  • Patients with recent acute coronary syndrome or unstable ischaemic heart disease.
  • History of recurrent or chronic infections, or a predisposing condition such as severe or poorly controlled diabetes.
  • Patients who have undergone major surgery within 28 days of the first day of the study.
  • Contraindications related to etanercept :
  • Hypersensitivity to etanercept or to any of the excipients of Benepali
  • Sepsis or risk of sepsis
  • Active infection including chronic or localised infections.
  • Contraindications associated with SonoVue (ultrasound contrast medium)
  • Hypersensitivity to Sonovue.
  • Right-to-left shunt
  • Severe PAH (pulmonary arterial pressure greater than 90 mmHg)
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • Respiratory distress syndrome
  • Conditions suggesting cardiovascular instability for which dobutamine is contraindicated

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 1 2027

Estimated Enrollment :

5 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06585384

Start Date

March 1 2025

End Date

September 1 2027

Last Update

October 16 2024

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