10-year extension study: prospective systematic follow-up for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.
- Conditions
- Schilder's diseaseX-ALDX-linked adrenoleukodystrophy1002929910010335
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON49948
- Lead Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 200
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all
of the following criteria:
- Diagnosis of ALD (confirmed by ABCD1 mutation analysis)
- For male patients: Willing to undergo regular follow-up visits (twice yearly
if <12 years and yearly if > 12 years) with blood sampling and MRI scan of the
brain
- For female patients: Willing to visit the hospital once every two to three
years
- Provision of written informed consent to participate in the study obtained
from the participant or legal guardian in case of a minor
Subjects eligible to participate as healthy controls must meet all of the
following criteria:
- Willing to visit the hospital
- 16 years or older
- Provision of written informed consent to participate in the study obtained
from the participant
A potential subject (patient or healthy control) who meets any of the following
criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
- unable to visit the hospital for follow up (for example in case of advanced
disease)
- co existing neurological disease making interpretation of acquired data
difficult (for instance multiple sclerosis)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Progression of disease (ALD) on all parameters</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Secondary Objective(s):<br /><br>1) to validate the new outcome measures (i.e. is the biomarker predictive) in<br /><br>this cohort.<br /><br>2) to establish if pre-symptomatic patients, and severely affected patients<br /><br>also show progression on the outcome measures under investigation and if that<br /><br>means these patients will become eligible for clinical studies.<br /><br>3) to measure body sway in a cohort of healthy control subjects in order to get<br /><br>normative data.</p><br>