NCT03397303Completed
Quantification of Nerve Stiffness in Neuropathies
Quantification of Nerve Stiffness in Patients With Peripheral Neuropathies
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This project aims to understand how nerve mechanical properties are altered in patients with rare peripheral neuropathies . Stiffness of various peripheral nerves will be measured using ultrasound shear wave elastography. Patients will be compared with age-matched controls.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 36 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Jan 2018
- Start date
- 11 Apr 2018
- Primary completion date
- 8 Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital
- NCT number
- NCT03397303
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 36
- From 11 Apr 2018 to the primary completion date, 8 Dec 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Diabetes, history of neuromuscular disease
- For CIDP:
Age
- Person of legal age benefiting from a system of legal protection (guardianship, curators or safeguard of justice)
- Person of legal age benefiting from a system of legal protection (guardianship, curators or safeguard of justice)
- Person of legal age benefiting from a system of legal protection (guardianship, curators or safeguard of justice)
Other
- For controls:
- Person staying in a health or social facility
- Person unable to understand the protocol and to respect the modalities
- Person deprived of liberty
- Participation in another biomedical research in progress
- Person staying in a health or social facility
- Person unable to understand the protocol and to respect the modalities
- Person deprived of liberty
- Participation in another biomedical research in progress
- MRC score \< 3
- For Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1) and anti-MAG:
- Person staying in a health or social facility
- Person unable to understand the protocol and to respect the modalities
- Person deprived of liberty
- Participation in another biomedical research in progress
Who the study is looking for
- Male or female aged 18 to 65
- Having social insurance status
- Having given informed consent
- Diagnostic of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), CMT1a or Anti-MAG (peak immunoglobulin M (IGm)\>15,000 BTU)
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Univeristy of Nantes Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nantes | France | Unknown status |
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