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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00925847
Date of registration: 19/06/2009
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Public title: Effect of Lithium Carbonate in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis LISLA
Scientific title: Open Multicenter Study of Lithium in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis LISLA
Date of first enrolment: June 2009
Target sample size: 23
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00925847
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:     Lucette Lacomblez, MD
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Affiliation:  Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosis of clinically possible, clinically probable laboratory-supported,
clinically probable or clinically definite ALS (according to WNF EL Escorial
diagnostic criteria, revised according to the AIRLIE House Conference 1998)

- Concomitant standard Riluzole therapy (50mg twice daily)

- patients included in ALS reference center

- women of childbearing age be non-lactating and surgically sterile or using a highly
effective method of birth control and have a negative pregnancy test

- capable of thoroughly understanding all information given and giving full informed
consent according to GCP

- Patients with gastrostomy

Exclusion Criteria:

- evidence of major psychiatric disorder or clinically evident dementia precluding
evaluation of symptoms

- any medical condition known to contre-indicate lithium treatment (dysthyroid,
cardiopathy, renal insufficiency)

- presence of any concomitant life-threatening disease or impairment likely to
interfere with functional assessment

- known hypersensitivity to any component of the study drugs



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Intervention(s)
Drug: lithium
Primary Outcome(s)
Survival in patients with ALS treated with lithium and riluzole compared to historical cohort (patients treated with riluzole alone ) [Time Frame: 15 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Rate of decline of respiratory function determined as SVC over the 15 month treatment period [Time Frame: 15 months]
Functional Assessment Change in ALS Functional Rating Score (ALSFRS-R slope) [Time Frame: 15 months]
Muscle Strength Change in MMT score (MMT slope) [Time Frame: 15 months]
Secondary ID(s)
P080401
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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