NCT05983575Active, not recruitingPhase 3
A Pivotal Study of LIPUS-Brain in Patients With Early Alzheimer's Disease
A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of LIPUS-Brain Transcranial Low-intensity Pulsed-wave Ultrasound Device in Patients With Early Alzheimer's Disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is a multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study comparing LIPUS-Brain transcranial low-intensity pulsed-wave ultrasound device to placebo in patients with Early Alzheimer's Disease. The primary objective of the study is to assess changes in ADAS-J-cog-14 scores from baseline to 72 weeks.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 220 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 Jul 2023
- Start date
- 31 Oct 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jan 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Sound Wave Innovation CO., LTD.
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT05983575
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 220
- From 31 Oct 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Jan 2026
- 19 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Patients who have had symptomatic cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage within 12 weeks prior to enrollment.
- Patients with implants such as coils, electrodes and stents in the skull.
- Patients within 5 years after brain surgery (including endovascular treatment).
Other illness
- Patients with Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal dementia.
- Patients judged by the investigator to be difficult to participate in the clinical trial due to severe mental illness
- Poorly controlled serious systemic disease (heart failure, liver failure, renal failure, vitamin B12 deficiency, hypothyroidism, etc.) that makes it difficult for the investigator to participate in the study judged patient.
- Patients with uncontrolled diabetic retinopathy (with active fundus hemorrhage).
- Patients who have malignant tumor as a complication or who have been treated for malignant tumor within 5 years from the time of enrollment (excluding cured resected carcinoma in situ).
- Patients who are or have a history of drug addiction or alcohol addiction.
- Patients with or with a history of epilepsy.
Other
- Patients judged by the investigator that it is difficult to continue the study treatment for 20 minutes.
- Patients judged by the investigator to be difficult to perform an MRI examination.
- Patients with impaired consciousness with a GCS score of 12 or less at the time of enrollment.
- Patients with a modified Hachinski Ischemic Scale score of 5 or more at enrollment.
- Patients who are pregnant or wish to become pregnant.
- Patients participating in other clinical studies (excluding non-interventional observational studies) or clinical trials.
- Patients who are otherwise judged to be ineligible by the investigator.
Who the study is looking for
- Provide written informed consent to participate in the clinical trial from the patient and their legal representative.
- Mild AD or MCI due to AD patient aged greater than or equal to (\>=) 50 and less than (\<) 90 years, at the time of informed consent.
- Patients with the same partner/informant who meet all of the following conditions during the study period
- Living with or in contact with the patient
- It is possible to observe the patient's activities of daily living and physical condition.
- Being able to be present at all times during the efficacy evaluation specified in this clinical trial
- Person judged by an investigator to be able to manage administration of concomitant medications
- Patients who met the diagnostic criteria of Mild AD or MCI due to AD according to the NIA/AA 2018 diagnostic criteria at the time of informed consent and were diagnosed as positive by the amyloid PET imaging evaluation committee.
- Have a CDR global score of 0.5 (MCI due to AD) to 1.0 (Mild AD) at screening.
- Patients with her MMSE-J score \>=20 at screening.
- No organic diseases such as symptomatic cerebral hemorrhage, symptomatic cerebral infarction, acute cerebral infarction, brain tumor, etc. within 48 weeks before obtaining informed consent or in head MRI images at screening, and in head MRA images, Patients evaluated by the imaging evaluation committee as not having severe stenosis/occlusion from the internal carotid artery to the middle cerebral artery.
- Patients who are receiving existing drug therapy for Mild AD or MCI due to AD and are not scheduled to change their medication within the past 4 weeks from obtaining consent and after obtaining consent.
Age in the registry: 50 years to 89 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (19)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juntendo University School of Medicine Juntendo Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyō-Ku | Japan | Unknown status |
| Memory Clinic Ochanomizu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyō-Ku | Japan | Unknown status |
| The University of Tokyo Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyō-Ku | Japan | Unknown status |
| Fukuoka Sanno Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fukuoka | Japan | Unknown status |
| Kansai Medical University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hirakata | Japan | Unknown status |
| Imon Yukari Neurology Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hiroshima | Japan | Unknown status |
| Kanazawa University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kanazawa | Japan | Unknown status |
| KATAYAMA medical Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kurashiki | Japan | Unknown status |
| Nagoya University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nagoya | Japan | Unknown status |
| IUHW Narita Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Narita | Japan | Unknown status |
| International University of Health and welfare Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nasushiobara | Japan | Unknown status |
| Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Niigata | Japan | Unknown status |
| National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ōbu | Japan | Unknown status |
| Sapporo Medical University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sapporo | Japan | Unknown status |
| Tohoku University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sendai | Japan | Unknown status |
| National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Suita | Japan | Unknown status |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatrics Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | tabashi City | Japan | Unknown status |
| Memory Clinic Toride Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toride | Japan | Unknown status |
| Tottori University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yonago | Japan | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Baseline characteristics of patients with early Alzheimer's disease enrolled in the pivotal trial of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS-AD).J Alzheimers Dis Rep · 2025 · PMID 41477670
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