Clinical trial NCT06844877: Italian NCL Registry: a Registry for NCL as an Integration Tool for Future Therapeutic Strategies
Official title: Italian NCL Registry: a Registry for NCL as an Integration Tool for Future Therapeutic Strategies
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Lead sponsor: IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
name: Bambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute
First posted: 2025-02-25
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Subjects affected by NCLs with a genetic or ultrastructural characterization

Brief summary: The goal is to create a solid and harmonious disease registry of patient affected by neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCLs) that facilitates the collection and management of patients' data over time encouraging the research and the development of future clinical trials. In-depth clinical phenotyping will develop significant clinical outcome measures that can be used in clinical trials and will allow the phenotypic complexity of the disease to be captured with the use of validated clinical scales, biomarkers and so-called patient reported outcomes (PROs).

Detailed description: The registry will involve three recruiting clinical centres (IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris in Pisa, Ospedale pediatrico Bambin Gesù in Roma e IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta in Milano). Participants will be assessed annually at one of the three participating clinical sites. For each patient, at least one follow-up visit will be scheduled at an interval of 12 months in order to monitor and compare the longitudinal progression of NCLs in similar groups (for example based on phenotype, age at onset, or genotype). At each visit all enrolled subjects will carry out a clinical-instrumental evaluation as per clinical practice, including: anamnestic collection, general and neurological objective examination; administration of illness scales (e.g. the Hamburg scale, UBDRS) and questionnaires about psychiatric symptoms, sleep disorders and quality of life. Any biological samples will be collected as tissues, blood or urine and stored in the laboratories or bio-repositories of the individual centers and also reported in the electronic clinical report form (CRF) of NCL Registry. The results of further diagnostic tests carried out such as Optical coherence tomography (OCT), brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or neurophysiology performed during diagnostic practice or clinical follow up will also be collected. Any further clinical scales/evaluation questionnaires to be administered will be selected according to clinical need based on the neurological characteristics and genotype of each participant. All data relating to further instrumental and/or neurophysiological investigations carried out by the patient for clinical needs will also be collected.

The data collected during the aforementioned clinical-instrumental-laboratory evaluations will be entered into the Italian NCL registry in pseudonymized form.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* genetically confirmed diagnosis of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
* participants/parents/legal guardians will have to give informed consent for enrollment in the registry and privacy data management

Exclusion Criteria:

* subjects affected by other forms of neurodegenerative diseases.
* lack of informed consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Establishment of the NCL Italian Registry to systematically document the clinical presentation and natural history of patients affected by NCLs
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pisa
country: Italy
facility: IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
Study officials:
affiliation: IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
name: Filippo M Santorelli, Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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