Status:

UNKNOWN

PINS Stimulator System to Treat Severe Anorexia Nervosa

Lead Sponsor:

Beijing Pins Medical Co., Ltd

Collaborating Sponsors:

Beijing Tiantan Hospital

Conditions:

Anorexia Nervosa

Eligibility:

All Genders

20-60 years

Phase:

EARLY_PHASE1

Brief Summary

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality of any psychiatric disorder and a paucity of effective treatments. AN becomes intractable in around 20%, resulting in huge individual and healthcare cos...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Female or male patients aged 20-60 years.
  • Diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, restricting or binge-purging subtype, as defi ned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR).
  • Chronicity or treatment resistance shown by some or all of:
  • A pattern of 3 years' duration of relentless unresponsiveness to repeated voluntary hospital admissions, characterised by failure to complete treatment or immediate weight relapse after treatment.
  • A pattern of increasing medical instability, accompanied by refusal to participate in or a pattern of poor response to intensive expert treatment and increasing medical acuity, lasting at least 2 years and including at least two episodes of involuntary feeding.
  • A pattern of chronic stable anorexia nervosa that has lasted at least 10 years.
  • Able to provide informed consent.
  • Able to comply with all testing, follow-ups, and study appointments and protocols.

Exclusion

  • Person with consciousness disorder on opioid abstinence, seriously aggressive, heavily dehydrated and intending to commit suicide.
  • Patients with serious liver and kidney dysfunction, pulmonary decompensation, or complicated with serious damage in other systems.
  • Patients with serious infectious disease.
  • Patients with history of serious neurological or psychiatrical diseases.
  • Person with history of HIV infection or serious malnutrition.
  • Dependent upon and addicted to multiple drugs.
  • Any contraindication to MRI or PET scanning.
  • Body-mass index less than 13.
  • Attended some other trials within one year.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 1 2016

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 1 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

16 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02263404

Start Date

December 1 2016

End Date

December 1 2018

Last Update

October 14 2016

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