Effect of Lithium Carbonate in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (LISLA)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Treatments: Drug: lithium

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00925847

P080401

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine whether lithium is safe and effective in the treatment of ALS

Full description

Daily doses of lithium, have been found to delay progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a 15-month study of 44 patients with ALS. At the end of the trial, about 30 percent of the patients that took riluzole had died, while all those receiving riluzole plus lithium had survived. the lithium group had slower progression as measure by a test of breathing (FVC) and strength.

This study will determine whether lithium in combination with riluzole delay progression of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease in comparison of an historical cohort of ALS patients treated with riluzole alone.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of clinically possible, clinically probable laboratory-supported, clinically probable or clinically definite ALS (according to WNF EL Escorial diagnostic criteria, revised according to the AIRLIE House Conference 1998)
• Concomitant standard Riluzole therapy (50mg twice daily)
• patients included in ALS reference center
• women of childbearing age be non-lactating and surgically sterile or using a highly effective method of birth control and have a negative pregnancy test
• capable of thoroughly understanding all information given and giving full informed consent according to GCP
• Patients with gastrostomy

Exclusion criteria

• evidence of major psychiatric disorder or clinically evident dementia precluding evaluation of symptoms
• any medical condition known to contre-indicate lithium treatment (dysthyroid, cardiopathy, renal insufficiency)
• presence of any concomitant life-threatening disease or impairment likely to interfere with functional assessment
• known hypersensitivity to any component of the study drugs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

23 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: lithium