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Open Trail of γIFN for Friedreich Ataxia

NCT03888664 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2020-02-26

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Summary

The investigator proposes an open label pilot study to investigate the safety and efficacy of gamma interferon (γIFN) in patients with Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA). yIFN, an approved drug for treatment of granulomatous disease, has been shown to promote Frataxin expression in FRDA models in vitro and in vivo as well as in pilot human studies.

Safety will monitored by clinical surveillance and biohumoral periodic assessment. Efficacy will be assessed by a combination of advanced neuroimaging techniques and established clinical indicators. The investigators intend to recruit over a 6 months period 12 subject with molecularly established FRDA. The protocol builds on a recently concluded observational study which established the pattern of clinical and neuroimaging abnormalities characterizing a cohort of patients with FA. The data already acquired through such study will constitute the T-6/-12 point, and together with T0 assessment, carried out at study entrance, will provide for each patient the exact appreciation of disease actual progression over a year time. Recruited patients will receive for 6 months yIFN at a final dose of 200 ug/three times a week. Patients will be evaluated clinically after 3 and 6 months (T3 and T6) of treatment and 6 months after treatment end (T+6) and by neuroimaging at T6 and T+6. The neuroimaging protocol, based on 3 Tesla scanner, consists in functional MRI, tractography. The clinical protocol consists on specific ataxia scales administration. Regular monitoring with for eventual adverse events will be provided. Frataxin levels in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells will also be evaluated at T0, T3, T6, T+6. Furthermore, the thickness of the cardiac ventricle and retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness with optical coherence tomography (OCT) will be performed at T0, T6, T + 6.

Conditions

  • Friedreich Ataxia

Interventions

DRUG

gamma interferon

1st two weeks: gIFN 100 ugr/three times a week from the 3rd week: gIFN 200 ugr/ three times a week for the following 22 weeks From the 25th week: no treatment for the following 24 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS Eugenio Medea

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrea Martinuzzi, MD · IRCCS Eugenio Medea

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-26
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2017-12-31

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