Active clinical trials for "Lipomatosis, Multiple Symmetrical"

Patients (homozygous MFN2 [gene that provides instructions to produce the Mitofusin 2 protein] R707W) will be treated with Metreleptin, and effects on body composition, metabolic parameters and safety will be assessed over a 6 month intervention period.

The specific aims of this proposal are to: Examining the effects of dorsal column stimulation on pain from lumbar spinal stenosis related to lumbar epidural lipomatosis. The primary outcome will be improvement in VAS score of combined back and leg pain at 6 weeks follow-up. Secondary outcomes will include improvement in Visual Analog Scale (VAS) back pain scores, VAS leg pain scores, and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) , as well as SCS complication rate. The specific aims of this proposal are to: Examining the effects of dorsal column stimulation on pain from lumbar spinal stenosis related to lumbar epidural lipomatosis. The primary outcome will be improvement in VAS score of combined back and leg pain at 6 weeks follow-up. Secondary outcomes will include improvement in VAS back pain scores, VAS leg pain scores, and Oswestry Disability Index, as well as SCS complication rate.

A young women with Symmetric Lipomatosis associated with Neuropathy (SLN) was seen at the department of Internal Medicine - Endocrinology and at the department of Neurology at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The patient presented with balance problems due to neuropathy and prominent cervical and genital lipomas. In the past, the patient had been treated with steroids for a short period. The patient noticed that, as a 'side effect', during this treatment period the lipomas shrank and that the balance problems nearly disappeared. The complaints reappeared after withdrawal of the steroids. In the current study, the usefulness of steroid treatment in this single patient will be investigated in an N-of-1 trial. Primary objective: to determine the efficacy of hydrocortisone treatment for neuropathy on an individual level in a patient with SLN as assessed with the Rasch-built Overall Disability Scale (RODS).

The INSIGHT study aims to phenotype individuals with subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) disorders specifically lipedema and Dercum's disease with an aim to find a cure for the SAT in these disorders that is resistant to diet and exercise.

The primary purpose of the protocol is to use next generation sequencing to identify pathogenic variants in genes involved in very rare skin diseases. The secondary purpose will be to study the genotype-phenotype correlation in order to re-evaluate the classification of these disorders. This work could help in the understanding of the physiopathology of very rare skin disorders.