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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.
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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (19)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Juntendo University School of Medicine Juntendo Hospital
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Bunkyō-KuJapanUnknown status
Memory Clinic Ochanomizu
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Bunkyō-KuJapanUnknown status
The University of Tokyo Hospital
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Bunkyō-KuJapanUnknown status
Fukuoka Sanno Hospital
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FukuokaJapanUnknown status
Kansai Medical University Hospital
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HirakataJapanUnknown status
Imon Yukari Neurology Clinic
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HiroshimaJapanUnknown status
Kanazawa University Hospital
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KanazawaJapanUnknown status
KATAYAMA medical Clinic
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KurashikiJapanUnknown status
Nagoya University Hospital
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NagoyaJapanUnknown status
IUHW Narita Hospital
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NaritaJapanUnknown status
International University of Health and welfare Hospital
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NasushiobaraJapanUnknown status
Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital
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NiigataJapanUnknown status
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
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ŌbuJapanUnknown status
Sapporo Medical University Hospital
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SapporoJapanUnknown status
Tohoku University Hospital
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SendaiJapanUnknown status
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
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SuitaJapanUnknown status
Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatrics Hospital
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tabashi CityJapanUnknown status
Memory Clinic Toride
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TorideJapanUnknown status
Tottori University Hospital
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YonagoJapanUnknown status

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