Gout drug may halt dangerous seizure clusters in epilepsy patients
NCT ID NCT07318870
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether probenecid, a medicine used for gout, can stop cluster seizures in people with focal epilepsy. Participants are patients aged 6 to 50 who are in the hospital for presurgical monitoring and have their usual seizure medications paused to trigger seizures. The goal is to see if a single dose of probenecid prevents further seizures for 12 hours, using video-EEG to track results.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 600 people
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- Expected to start
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Jan 2026
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- Expected to finish
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Feb 2029
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- Lead sponsor
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A research network
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6 to 50 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients between 6 and 50 years old * weighting \> 20 kg * With focal seizures epilepsy * Requiring video-EEG recording in Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMU) for the presurgical evaluation of a focal epilepsy, with planned ASM withdrawal in order to precipitate seizure occurrence * Able to take an oral therapy * Ability to record the patient \> 12 hours after the second seizure of the cluster * Having received informed information about the study and having signed a consent form to participate in the study. Written consent of both holders of parental authority for minor patients. Exclusion Criteria: * Hypersensitivity to PBN or to any of the excipients (Microcrystalline cellulose, Hypromellose, Sodium carboxymethylamidon, Colloidal anhydrous silica, Magnesium stearate) * Impaired renal function (creatinine clearance \< 50 mL/min) * Lithiasis diathesis * Treatment by the following drugs: penicillins cephalosporins, acetylsalicylic acid, methotrexate, acetaminophen, naproxen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, meclofenamate, lorazepam, rifampicin, acyclovir, ganciclovir and zidovudine, sulfonamide, dyprophylline * Acute gout attack * Hyperuricemia secondary to cancer chemotherapy, radiotherapy or myeloproliferative neoplasia * Primary hyperuricemia due to overproduction of uric acid. * Pregnant or breast-feeding woman * Patient benefiting from legal protection Secondary exclusion criteria (before randomization) : \- Patient not randomized: Not experiencing at least 2 seizures lasting less than 10 minutes in 6 hours or less period (defining a SC) during the video-EEG monitoring period OR having no seizure recorded before the cluster. Patients secondarily excluded will be excluded before randomization and will be replaced.
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