The Swedish Essential Tremor (SWEET) Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-01-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To evaluate the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) vs best medical treatment in essential tremor (ET) in a randomized, single-blinded controlled trial.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
• Collaborators: Göteborg University; Lund University; Umeå University; University Hospital, Linkoeping; Uppsala University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of ET, as decided by the movement disorder specialist; Substantial incapacity; Duration of symptoms > 5 years; Age 18 - 75; unsatisfying effect from β-blockers, or be unable to tolerate the medical therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cognitive impairment; Co-morbidity or non-compliance likely to jeopardize the result or to confuse the evaluation; Normal surgical exclusion criteria.