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| Name | Class |
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| Leiden University Medical Center | OTHER |
| Princess Beatrix Muscle Foundation | OTHER |
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This study will focus on the symptoms, natural history and clinical impact of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) in children.
Symptoms of classical FSHD start in adulthood. However, a small subgroup of FSHD patients have an early, childhood onset. This early onset is associated with faster progression and other symptoms like hearing loss and epilepsy.
The symptoms, natural history and clinical impact of FSHD in children are largely unknown.
The results of this study will be vital for adequate symptomatic management and trial-readiness.
FSHD is a hereditary muscle disease with slowly progressive muscle weakness. In children it is a very heterogenic disease ranging from severely affected infants to mildly affected adolescents. Symptoms can include muscle weakness, pain, fatigue, epilepsy, hearing loss, vision loss, mental retardation and spinal deformities. The prevalence of these symptoms and the adequate follow-up of these symptoms is unknown. Moreover the clinical impact and social functioning of children with FSHD is under exposed.
Therefore this study will focus on the total spectrum of FSHD in children.
In addition, an extensive genetic screening will be conducted, searching for (epi)genetic disease modifiers and severity predictors.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| iFSHD group | First recruitment group |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Motor Function Measure | Global motor functioning | 2 years |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| ICH Body functioning: Manual Muscle Testing | Manual Muscle Testing using the 5-point scale of the Medical Research Council. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: 6 Minute Walk test | Walking Distance in 6 minutes. |
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All children aged 0-17 years with genetically confirmed FSHD
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Baziel van Engelen, MD, PhD | Nijmegen University Medical Center | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Radboud University Medical Center | Nijmegen | Gelderland | 6500 | Netherlands |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 27530735 | Derived | Goselink RJ, Schreuder TH, Mul K, Voermans NC, Pelsma M, de Groot IJ, van Alfen N, Franck B, Theelen T, Lemmers RJ, Mah JK, van der Maarel SM, van Engelen BG, Erasmus CE. Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy in children: design of a prospective, observational study on natural history, predictors and clinical impact (iFocus FSHD). BMC Neurol. 2016 Aug 17;16:138. doi: 10.1186/s12883-016-0664-6. |
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Patients have not given consent for IPD. Please contact researchers.
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| ID | Term |
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| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D020391 | Muscular Dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral |
| D009136 | Muscular Dystrophies |
| ID | Term |
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| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D020966 | Muscular Disorders, Atrophic |
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DNA and RNA samples
| 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: Denver II developmental screening test | Developmental level. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: visual acuity | Snellen card | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: hearing | Tone- and voice audiometry | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: mental functioning | Electro-encephalography performed in clinically suspected epilepsy. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: Pain | Faces scale pain. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: cardiac functioning | 12 lead Electrocardiogram. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: respiratory functioning | Upright sitting spirometry measuring vital capacity and forced expiratory volume. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: muscle functions | FSHD-evaluation score, Ricci score. | 2 years |
| ICH Body functioning: ingestion functions | TOMASS-C test.Neuromuscular disease swallowing status scale. | 2 years |
| ICH Body structure: muscle ultrasonography | Quantitative muscle ultrasonography of 20 skeletal muscles. | 2 years |
| ICH Body structure: eye structure | Dilated fundoscopy, optical coherence tomography, slit lamp examination | 2 years |
| ICF: Activities and participation: Kidscreen | Kidscreen-52. | 2 years |
| ICF: Activities and participation: NeuroQol | NeuroQol fatigue domain, qualitative anamnesis. | 2 years |
| ICF: Activities and participation: SEV | SEV questionnaire: social-emotional functioning. | 2 years |
| (Epi)genetic disease-modifying factors | Genetic profiling (DNA and RNA). | 2 years |
| Prevalance estimation | Nationwide recruitment, prevalence estimation. | 2 years |
| D009135 | Muscular Diseases |
| D009140 | Musculoskeletal Diseases |
| D009468 | Neuromuscular Diseases |
| D030342 | Genetic Diseases, Inborn |
| D009358 | Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities |