Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 3:30 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 3:30 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00881205
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Written informed consent to participate in the trial
2. Males and females between 18 and 55 years of age;
3. Definite diagnosis of multiple sclerosis as defined by 2005 revised McDonald criteria
4. MS-subtype: Clinical isolated syndrome (CIS), Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS), Secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SPMS);
5. Cognitive Impairment
6. Sufficient education to read, write and communicate comprehensibly
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Use of other investigational drugs at the time of enrollment, or within 30 days or 5 half-lives of enrollment, whichever is longer
2. Women who are pregnant or breast feeding or who are menstruating and capable of becoming pregnant and not practicing a medically approved method of contraception
3. With a physical or sensory disability that can subjectively prevent the patient from completing all study requirements
4. Patients suffering any other type of concomitant psychiatric and/or neurological disorder other than MS which is known to affect cognition (e.g. severe depressive symptoms, cerebrovascular diseases, epilepsy).
5. Patients suffering an acute relapse of MS in the previous 30 days (treated or not with intravenous or oral glucocorticoid regimens) prior to baseline.
6. With a history or current problem of drug-addiction and/or alcohol abuse.
7. Known or 'new' diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (if screening blood glucose is suspicious for diabetes \[≥126 mg/dL or ≥7 mmol/L if fasting and ≥200 mg/dL or 11.1 mmol/L if random testing\] a patient should be further evaluated for diabetes mellitus)
8. With a history of severe or moderate-severe cranioencephalic trauma.
9. History or presence of any intolerance or contraindication for the application of rivastigmine (or for drugs with similar chemical structures) as listed in the current Investigator's Brochure and/or SPC, i.e. severe liver insufficiency, pancreatitis, gastric ulcer, convulsions.
10. With a history in the past year or a current diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease (for instance, stroke, transient ischemic events, aneurysms).
11. Severe depressive symptoms indicated by a score of more than ≥ 14 on the MADRS at screening
12. History of malignancy of any organ system, treated or untreated, within the past 5 years whether or not there is evidence of local recurrence or metastases, with the exception of localized basal cell carcinoma of the skin
Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
65 Years
Study:
NCT00881205
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00881205