NCT02085330

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Mild Cognitive Impairment

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Patients Suffering From Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Subcortical Ischemia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Dementia is a very frequent cognitive disorder among elderly individuals. Its prevalence is about 15-20% of the population over the age of 65. The most common forms of dementia among the elderly demented patients are Alzheimer's disease (AD) (prevalence of 70%) and Vascular dementia (VD) (prevalence of about 30-40%).There is also a high rate (about 40%) of coexisting of AD and VD among the dementia patients, defined as mixed dementia. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a pre-dementia phase of cognitive decline. It is also considered as a prodromal phase of both VD and AD. Its basic clinical features include: cognitive concern, reflecting a change in cognition, reported by the patient or informant (i.e., historical or observed evidence of decline over time), with objective evidence of impairment in one or more cognitive domains (i.e., by formal cognitive testing), as well as preservation of independence in functional abilities and not being demented (i.e., no significant impairment social or occupational functioning). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been investigated for treatment of numerous diseases for more than 300 years. The principal effect of HBOT is increasing the solubility of oxygen in plasma to a level sufficient to support tissues with minimal oxygen supply carried on by hemoglobin. Clinical studies published this year present convincing evidence that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can be the coveted neurotherapeutic method for brain repair. Thus, it seems that HBOT might be an efficient and clinically feasible method capable of increasing tissue/cellular oxygenation and effectively evoking neuroplasticity in the chronically vascular-lesioned areas during the post microvascular lesion phase. This is a prospective, randomized, control crossed over, study evaluating the effect of HBOT in patients suffering from Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Subcortical Ischemia.

Conditions

• Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Subcortical Ischemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hyperbaric oxygen therapy	100%, 2 ATA, 90 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2014-03-12
• Last updated: 2014-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel