TerminatedNot Applicable

Olfactive Discriminative Ability of Dogs When Confronted With Seizure and Non-seizure Samples // Identification of Potential Biomarkers for Epilepsy in Human Sweat.

Stopped: COVID-10 outbreak forced us to cancel the study

Belgium31 participantsStarted 2020-01-20

Plain-language summary

Dogs belonging to MDD will be trained and asked to discriminate between odour sweat samples from epilepsy patients associated with a seizure ("seizure sample") and samples collected when no seizure was close in time ("non-seizure sample"). The same type positive and negative sweat samples will be analysed by Florida International University using solid phase micro extraction (SPME) GC-MS to try to identify volatile organic components (VOC) specific to the samples associated with seizures.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * The person will be an adult. * The person will experience seizures implying both or either loss of conscience or incapability of interacting normally with the environment. * Diagnostic of epilepsy confirmed by treating neurologist

What they're measuring

Answer to the question: Is possible to train Medical Detection Dogs to identify seizure-related samples using the sense of olfaction?

Timeframe: 8 months

VOC Identification

Timeframe: 8 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04266990

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Ghent

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2020-03-13

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