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Analysis of 18F-AV-1451 PET Imaging in Cognitively Healthy, MCI, and AD Subjects

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Alzheimer's Disease
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT02016560
Lead Sponsor
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
Brief Summary

A Phase 2/3 cross-sectional and longitudinal observational study evaluating imaging characteristics of flortaucipir in control subjects and patients with clinically defined MCI and AD dementia (AD).

Detailed Description

This study was conducted in 2 phases: a Phase 2 Exploratory Phase and a Phase 3 Confirmatory Phase. An overarching goal of the Exploratory Phase of this protocol was to further investigate the pattern of flortaucipir PET imaging across the disease course, in cognitively healthy subjects through patients with cognitive decline. To accomplish this goal, the protocol investigated flortaucipir results in younger and older cognitively healthy normal volunteers and patients with clinical diagnoses for cognitive complaints, ranging from MCI to mild and moderate AD dementia. Additionally, the Exploratory Phase of this protocol investigated relationships between flortaucipir PET signal and cognitive decline over the 18-month study period.

The second, Confirmatory Phase of the study was designed to provide independent validation of the relationships observed in the exploratory analyses of the first phase. In particular, the goal of the second phase was to confirm the relationship between flortaucipir uptake in the brain as measured by PET signals at baseline and the subsequent rate of cognitive decline observed over the 18-month longitudinal follow up.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
383
Inclusion Criteria

Exploratory Cognitively Healthy Subjects

  • ≥ 20 to ≤ 40 years of age OR ≥ 50 years of age
  • Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) ≥ 29
  • No significant history of cognitive impairment

Exploratory MCI Subjects

  • ≥ 50 years of age
  • MMSE ≥ 24
  • Have MCI consistent with National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) working group's diagnostic guidelines for AD
  • Have a study partner that can report on subject's activities of daily living

Exploratory AD Subjects

  • ≥ 50 years of age
  • MMSE > 10
  • Have possible or probable AD based on the NIA-AA working group's diagnostic guidelines for AD
  • Have a study partner that can report on subject's activities of daily living

Confirmatory Subjects

  • ≥ 50 years of age
  • MMSE ≥ 20 and ≤ 27
  • Cognitively impaired subjects with either MCI or dementia with a suspected neurodegenerative cause
  • Have a study partner that can report on subject's activities of daily living
Exclusion Criteria
  • Current clinically significant psychiatric disease
  • Evidence of structural brain abnormalities
  • History of moderate or severe traumatic brain injury
  • Current clinically significant cardiovascular disease or ECG abnormalities, or additional risk factors for Torsades de Pointes
  • Current clinically significant infectious disease, endocrine or metabolic disease, pulmonary, renal or hepatic impairment, or cancer
  • History of alcohol or substance abuse or dependence
  • Females of childbearing potential who are not surgically sterile, not refraining from sexual activity or not using reliable methods of contraception
  • Have received or participated in a trial with investigational medications in the past 30 days
  • Have had a non-study related radiopharmaceutical imaging or treatment procedure within 7 days prior to the study imaging session.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SEQUENTIAL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Exploratory MCI SubjectsFlortaucipir F18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Exploratory Cognitively Healthy SubjectsBrain PET ScanSubjects will receive an IV injection, 370 megabecquerel (MBq) (10 millicurie \[mCi\]), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline.
Confirmatory SubjectsFlortaucipir F18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 and flortaucipir at baseline.
Confirmatory SubjectsBrain PET ScanSubjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 and flortaucipir at baseline.
Exploratory Cognitively Healthy Subjectsflorbetapir F 18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 megabecquerel (MBq) (10 millicurie \[mCi\]), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline.
Exploratory AD SubjectsFlortaucipir F18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Exploratory AD SubjectsBrain PET ScanSubjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Exploratory MCI SubjectsBrain PET ScanSubjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Confirmatory Subjectsflorbetapir F 18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 and flortaucipir at baseline.
Exploratory MCI Subjectsflorbetapir F 18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Exploratory AD Subjectsflorbetapir F 18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.
Exploratory Cognitively Healthy SubjectsFlortaucipir F18Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 megabecquerel (MBq) (10 millicurie \[mCi\]), single dose of florbetapir F 18 at baseline. Subjects will receive an IV injection, 370 MBq (10 mCi), single dose of flortaucipir at baseline.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Confirmatory Phase: Relationship Between Neocortical Flortaucipir Uptake and the Subsequent Rate of Cognitive Declinebetween baseline and 18 months

Confirm the relationship between neocortical flortaucipir uptake and the subsequent rate of cognitive decline at longitudinal follow up that was observed in the Exploratory Phase of the study. Patients were assigned to groups by majority classification of the flortaucipir positron emission tomography (PET) scan by five independent imaging physicians. Clinically meaningful cognitive and functional deterioration was defined as a 1 point or greater worsening on clinical dementia rating - sum of boxes (CDR-SB) score over the follow-up period.

Exploratory Phase: Cross-sectional Flortaucipir Imaging Resultsbaseline scan

Flortaucipir standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr). A value of 1 signifies no flortaucipir activity above background, values greater than 1 signify increasing flortaucipir activity in the brain.

Exploratory Phase: Longitudinal Change in Tau Deposition Over Time, by Amyloid Statusbaseline and 18 months

Assess the rate of change of tau deposition as measured by flortaucipir uptake (SUVr) over time. Change = 18 months SUVr - baseline SUVr.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Confirmatory Phase: Diagnostic Performance of Flortaucipir Visual Readbaseline and 18 months

This analysis used dichotomized CDR-SB change as a truth standard (1 point or more worsening = true positive vs. less than 1 point worsening = true negative) to assess the diagnostic performance of baseline Advanced AD tau status (τAD++) as determined by flortaucipir scan interpretation. Sensitivity and Specificity were calculated for each of the 5 independent imaging readers. Sensitivity is the percentage of true positive cases correctly identified by an Advanced AD pattern scan. Specificity is the percentage of true negative cases correctly identified by scans that were not classified as Advanced AD pattern.

Exploratory Phase: Correlation Between Flortaucipir SUVr and Agebaseline scan

Flortaucipir standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr). A value of 1 signifies no flortaucipir activity above background, values greater than 1 signify increasing flortaucipir activity in the brain.

Trial Locations

Locations (27)

UC Irvine

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Irvine, California, United States

Neurological Research Institute

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Santa Monica, California, United States

University of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Four Peaks Neurology

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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Quantum Laboratories

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Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Hoag Memorial

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Newport Beach, California, United States

Center for Clinical Imaging Research

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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Meridien Research

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Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States

Boston University

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Banner Alzheimer's Institute

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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

UC San Francisco

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San Francisco, California, United States

Duke University Medical Center

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Durham, North Carolina, United States

Independent Imaging

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West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

21st Century Oncology

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Fort Myers, Florida, United States

Alzheimer's Disease Center

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Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Center for Brain Health - NYU Langone Medical Center

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New York, New York, United States

Las Vegas Radiology

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Butler Hospital

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Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Mayo Clinic

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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Banner Sun Health Research Institute

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Sun City, Arizona, United States

Norther California PET Imaging Center

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Sacramento, California, United States

UC Davis

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Sacramento, California, United States

Molecular NeuroImaging

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New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Sandlake Imaging

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Orlando, Florida, United States

USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Center

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Tampa, Florida, United States

Rhode Island Hospital

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Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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