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TerminatedNCT00522418

Study Comparing Best Medical Practice With or Without VNS Therapy in Pharmacoresistant Partial Epilepsy Patients

An Open Prospective Randomised Long-Term Effectiveness Study, Comparing Best Medical Practice With or Without Adjunctive VNS Therapy in Patients 16 Years and Older With Pharmaco-resistant Partial Epilepsy

Status
Terminated
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
122 (actual)
Sponsor
Cyberonics, Inc. · Industry
Sex
All
Age
16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

This is a post-market medical device study. This study will compare best medical practice with or without adjunctive VNS Therapy in patients who are 16 years and older with pharmacoresistant partial epilepsy.

Detailed description

This is a post-market medical device study. This study will compare best medical practice with or without adjunctive VNS Therapy in patients who are 16 years and older with pharmaco-resistant partial epilepsy. The Sponsor, Cyberonics, provides funding for this study. Patients are followed for 26 months, 24 of those months are following the initiation of treatment. No study sites will be permitted to enroll study subjects until Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Ethics Committee (EC) approval has been received.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICEVagal Nerve Simulation (VNS) TherapyVNS Therapy + Best Medical Practice including anti-epileptic drugs
DRUGBest Medical PractiveBest Medical Practice including anti-Epileptic Drugs

Timeline

Start date
2006-02-01
Primary completion
2008-07-01
Completion
2008-07-01
First posted
2007-08-29
Last updated
2015-01-26
Results posted
2010-05-17

Locations

48 sites across 10 countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00522418. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.