Exploring Advanced Imaging Techniques to Characterize Botulinum Toxin Diffusion in Human Muscle

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke; Muscle Spasticity
• Interventions: Drug: Botox (botulinum toxin)

• Registration Number: NCT01412008
• Lead Sponsor: New York Presbyterian Hospital

Brief Summary

Since the use of botulinum toxin in treating spasticity has already been proven effective, we are now using magnetic resonance imaging to examine the toxin diffusion within muscle (post injection) in order to determine the specific toxin dose required for an optimal treatment response.

Detailed Description

Over the past decade, botulinum toxins (BT) have been extensively used to treat any number of diverse disorders, including functionally significant, focal spasticity in the arm and leg of persons with injury/disease of the central nervous system. Spasticity is an involuntary muscle stiffness that limits movement of an extremity and often leads to pain, hygiene problems, difficulty in bed or wheelchair positioning, and functional deficits in self-care and mobility.

There are three BT products on the market: MyoBloc®, Botox®, and Dysport®. FDA approval for use of Botox® in spasticity is anticipated sometime during 2010. In the Weill Cornell Division of Rehabilitation Medicine alone, nearly 50,000 units of Botox® were injected for the treatment of spasticity during the 2008-2009 academic year. (Note: The vast majority of the BT market share in the US rests with Botox®.)

There is excellent evidence supporting the effectiveness of BT in decreasing tone and modest clinical evidence supporting functional improvement. Despite the frequent use, however, there is astonishingly little evidence delineating the impact on diffusion of dosing, dilution, approach to muscle localization, or serotype of BT. To better study these relationships we will be using advanced imaging to develop a model to characterize the physical characteristics of BT diffusion in human skeletal muscle.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-03
• Study First Submitted: 2011-08-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-08-04
• Study First Posted: 2011-08-08
• Primary Completion: 2012-06
• Study Completion: 2012-06
• Status Verified: 2013-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-09-27
• Last Update Posted: 2013-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5

Inclusion Criteria

• diagnosis of UMN disease
• clinically significant spasticity in the gastrocnemius muscle to warrant Botox® injection (made at the discretion of Dr. O'Dell)
• naïve to all botulinum toxins in the lower extremity

Exclusion Criteria

• MR incompatibility with implanted ferromagnetic devices.[Specifically, they may not participate in this study if they have a pacemaker, an implanted defibrillator or certain other implanted electronic or metallic devices. They will be screened by the MRI staff for past surgical procedures to determine the possibility of having an implanted medical or metallic device, shrapnel, or other metal, such as metal in the eye.]
• Pregnancy or breast feeding

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
botox diffusion	Botox (botulinum toxin)	Each subject was given 3 injections in lateral gastrocnemius muscle:2 botox, 1 saline, each injection was 2.5mL. MRI of the lower leg was taken prior to injections and 2 months post for a comparison of diffusion properties.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
MRI	Baseline (0 months), 2 months and 3 months	Subjects will undergo non-contrast MRI's of the target leg prior to Botox injections (0 months), then again at both 2 months and 3 months following the Botox injections.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States