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:
2025-12-26 @ 10:56 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-26 @ 10:56 AM
NCT ID:
NCT06367608
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Clinical diagnosis of moderate to severe TSFD with impact in their daily function or occupation function
2. Patients who failed to response or had unsatisfactory response to the first treatment, such as Botulinum toxin treatment or DBS or refuse these alternative options
3. Age greater than 21 and less than 75 years
4. Subjects who are able and willing to give consent and able to attend all study visits,
5. Documented chronic, symptoms for more than 6 months duration
6. Pallidotomy is feasible based on evaluation of imaging studies
7. Patient able to communicate sensations during the ExAblate TcMRgFUS treatment
8. Two members of the medical team have agreed upon inclusion and exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patient with contraindications to MRI such as severe claustrophobia and metallic implants incompatible with MRI.
2. Presence of generalized dystonia or involvement of two or more contiguous body regions (such as Arm along with neck)
3. Severe psychiatric disorder such as uncontrolled depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, prior attempt at suicide or suicide ideation in preceding 12 months
4. Life expectancy less than 12 months
5. Anticoagulant or antiplatelet medications as well as underlying coagulopathy
6. Pregnant ladies or women of childbearing age who are sexually active and not using contraception
7. Inability to provide informed consent, for example due to underlying cognitive impairment or aphasia
8. Presence of intracranial mass or an acute intracranial abnormality
9. Subjects with unstable cardiac status such as unstable angina pectoris, documented myocardial infarction within 6 months of protocol entry or ejection fraction less than 40
10. Subjects exhibiting any behavior(s) consistent with ethanol or substance abuse as defined by the criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-IV)
11. Severe hypertension (diastolic blood pressure \> 100 on medication or persistently elevated systolic blood pressure\>140 mmHg despite adequate antihypertensive medications)
12. History of intracranial hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury or thalamic stroke.
13. Cerebrovascular disease (multiple cerebrovascular accident's (CVA) or CVA within 6 months)
14. Subjects with life-threatening systemic disease that include and not limited to the following will be excluded from the study participation: HIV, Liver Failure, blood dyscrasias, etc.
15. Subjects with a history of seizures within the past year
16. Individuals who are not able or willing to tolerate the required prolonged stationary supine position during treatment (can be up to 4 hours of total table time.)
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Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
21 Years
Maximum Age:
75 Years
Study:
NCT06367608
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06367608