Real-world results of deep brain stimulation for essential tremor
Collects everyday outcomes of approved deep brain stimulation devices in adults with essential tremor.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Boston Scientific Corporation
- Where
- Porto, PortugalSee the siteAlso in 8 other countries, 19 sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Boston Scientific Registry of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Essential Tremor (ET)
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 500 people, planned
- Started
- 23 Oct 2019
- Expected to end
- Dec 2039
- Type of study
- Observational
- Treatments tested
- Deep Brain Stimulation Systems (DBS)
- Record updated
- 13 November 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with essential tremor who are getting a Boston Scientific Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system implanted. It collects real-world results of these devices.
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Disease stage
- Essential tremor that meets the criteria in the local Directions for Use for the DBS system.
Main reasons for not taking part
- People with any reason listed in the local Directions for Use why the device must not be used cannot join.
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Meets criteria established in the locally applicable Directions for Use (DFU) for Essential Tremor
- Is at least 18 years old
Who cannot take part
- Meets any contraindication in locally applicable Directions for Use
Where in Portugal
Also in 8 other countries, 19 sites
- CHU Sao JoaoPorto, PortugalContact: Boston Scientific Clinical ResearchTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
To compile characteristics of real-world outcomes for Boston Scientific Corporation's commercially approved Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Systems, when used according to the applicable Directions for Use, for the treatment of Essential Tremor.
The group in the trial
- Essential Tremor
Subjects with Essential Tremor being implanted with Boston Scientific Deep Brain Stimulation Systems
Treatment: Deep Brain Stimulation Systems (DBS)
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Boston Scientific Registry of Deep Brain Stimulations for Treatment of Essential Tremor (ET):ET Registry
- Plain-language title
- Real-world results of deep brain stimulation for essential tremorGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 13 November 2026