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. 2022 Jul 7;12(7):e064173. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064173

Table 2.

MND-SMART eligibility criteria (protocol version 6.0)

Inclusion criteria
  • Confirmed diagnosis of MND (including the following subtypes: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by El Escorial criteria (possible, probable and definite), primary lateral sclerosis and progressive muscular atrophy).

  • Over 18 years of age.

  • Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 7 days prior to, or at, the baseline visit.

  • Women of childbearing potential and fertile men must be using an appropriate method of contraception to avoid any unlikely teratogenic effects of the selected drugs from time of consent, to 4 weeks after treatment inclusive.

  • Willing and able to comply with the trial protocol and ability to understand and complete questionnaires.

  • Written informed consent (this can be signed by a proxy in the case of limb dysfunction).

Exclusion criteria
  • Diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD-MND) or any other significant psychiatric disorder that prevents informed consent being given.

  • Patients in the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

  • Alcoholism (self-reported).

  • Active suicide ideation assessed using the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.

  • On concurrent investigational medication (including biological therapy).

  • Known hypersensitivity, including hereditary fructose intolerance, or adverse reaction to the active substances and their excipients or any medical history contraindicating use of any of the investigational medicinal products (IMPs).

  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding females.

  • If ALT, ALP, bilirubin or GGT>3 times the upper limit of normal; creatinine clearance (creatinine clearance or eGFR)<30 mL/min; or serum free T4>25 pmol/L or TSH<0.2 mU/L.

  • If corrected QT interval on 12 lead ECG>450 ms.

  • Diagnosis of ventricular arrhythmias, heart block or in the immediate recovery period after myocardial infarction (<6 weeks).

  • Already taking any of the IMPs in the protocol.

  • Contraindications to any of the IMPs according to summary of product characteristics (SPC).

  • Taking a medication that interacts with the active substances and their excipients according to the SPCs, including but not limited to; dextromethorphan, amantadine; ketamine, monoamine-oxidase inhibitors ((MAOIs): rasagiline, selegiline, safinamide, tranylcypromine, phenelzine, isocarboxazid, moclobemide).

  • Patients who the PI considers will not be able to comply with the study protocol.

ALP, alkaline phosphatase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase; MND, motor neuron disease; MND-SMART, Motor Neuron Disease Systematic Multi-Arm Adaptive Randomised Trial; PI, Principal Investigator; TSH, thyroid-stimulating hormone.