Clinical trial NCT00455104: Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative (CFDI) National Registry
Official title: Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative National Registry: Outcomes of Rare Disease Therapeutics and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Modification
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Fabry Disease
Keywords: Fabry Disease
National Registry
Lead sponsor: Canadian Fabry Research Consortium
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: Nova Scotia Health Authority
First posted: 2007-04-03
Enrollment: 600
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 85
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Individuals with Fabry disease living in Canada.

Brief summary: CFDI NATIONAL REGISTRY

Fabry disease is a rare, inherited, genetic condition due to a deficiency of an enzyme called alpha-galactosidase A. This enzyme deficiency causes the small blood vessels to accumulate a substance called glycolipid. Without sufficient levels of the enzyme, alpha-galactosidase A, persons with Fabry Disease develop severe neuropathic pain, kidney disease, heart disease, stroke and/or premature death; often before the age of 60.

Fabry Disease is estimated to affect approximately one out of every 40,000 males and up to twice as many females in Canada. We do not have the exact number of persons in Canada who have this disease. A common problem in studying rare conditions is the difficulty in identifying the majority of people suffering from such a disease. Gathering their health information in order to better understand the natural disease progression and its response to treatment is difficult.

Early ERT studies involving humans had small numbers of subjects and the studies were of short duration. The results of these clinical studies did lead to approval of the therapy in many countries around the world including Canada. To date though, evidence of the usefulness of ERT and its direct impact on the natural course of Fabry disease has been limited, while its cost continues to be very high. As a result of these issues, there will need to be continued and long-term collection of information related to the effectiveness of ERT and other treatments to better document its true clinical outcomes in Canadian people with Fabry disease.

The Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative National Registry (CFDI-NR) is an observational, voluntary registry designed to collect outcomes data on Fabry disease from people living in Canada.

Detailed description: CFDI NATIONAL REGISTRY: Canada-Wide Patient Recruitment

There are over 600 people in Canada known to have Fabry Disease. For more details about Fabry Disease, please refer to the "Brief Summary."

The goals of this nation-wide study are as follows:

1. To maintain an established national registry which will collect information related to the identification and monitoring of all persons with Fabry disease in Canada;
2. To determine clinical outcomes of patients with Fabry disease including those on treatment;
3. To determine if urine and plasma Gb3 and globotriasylsphingosine (LysoGb3) and their analogues can be biomarkers for Fabry disease and can predict clinical outcomes.

Data will be collected at baseline and every 12 months, as follows:

* Medical History
* Physical examination
* Neurological exam
* Electrocardiogram (ECG) - an electrical tracing of one's heart rhythm
* Echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart)
* Holter monitor
* Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or CT Scan of the head
* Lab tests (including alpha-galactosidase levels)
* Review of current medications
* 24-hour urine collection or a random spot urine test
* Biomarker samples

To date though, evidence of the usefulness of ERT and its direct impact on the natural course of Fabry disease has been limited, while its cost continues to be very high (approximately $300,000 CDN per year per patient). As a result of these issues, there will need to be continued and long-term collection of information related to the effectiveness of ERT and other treatments to better document its true clinical outcomes in Canadian people with Fabry disease.

Eligibility criteria: INCLUSION CRITERIA:

* Age 5 years and older, up to \& including age 85 years; and
* Able to give informed consent; and
* A clinical diagnosis of Fabry disease; and
* Compliance with all the clinic visits, interviews and assessments during the study period; and
* A Canadian citizen or a landed immigrant

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

* Inability to give informed consent; or
* Problem complying with all the clinic visits, interviews and assessments during the study period; or
* An estimated life expectancy of less than 12 months
* Under 5 years of age
* Non-disease causing mutation

Primary outcomes:
measure: (1) To maintain an established national database for the identification and monitoring of all patients with Fabry disease in Canada.
timeFrame: 2019
Secondary outcomes:
measure: 2) To identify the clinical outcomes of patients with Fabry disease including those on various treatments.
timeFrame: 2019
measure: 3) To determine if urine and Gb3 and lysoGb3 and their analogues can be biomarkers for Fabry disease and can predict clinical outcomes.
timeFrame: 2019
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Calgary
country: Canada
facility: Alberta Children's Hospital
state: Alberta
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: Vancouver General Hospital Adult Metabolic Diseases Clinic
state: British Columbia
city: Halifax
country: Canada
facility: Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
state: Nova Scotia
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Toronto Western Hospital
state: Ontario
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: University of Montreal, Department of Medicine
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (Capital District Health Authority), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
name: Michael L West, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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