Status:

TERMINATED

Contrast Enhanced Sonothrombolysis and Sonolysis in Stroke - a Swedish Study (CE-5S)

Lead Sponsor:

Umeå University

Conditions:

Ischemic Stroke

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

Patients with acute ischemic stroke in anterior circulation within 4,5 hours of symptom onset, has a bone window and Trombolysis In Brain Ischemia (TIBI) \<=4 in a relevant artery eligible. Both patie...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Male or female patients ≥18 years with acute ischaemic stroke in the anterior circulation, who has given written consent for his/her participation to the study.
  • Remaining neurological deficit that is ≥1 NIHSS points, sufficient to warrant treatment with tPA (not taking possible contraindications into account) and is severe enough that possible improvement is clearly analysable
  • Treatment \<4½ hours of symptom onset or of waking up in the morning with symptoms
  • Sufficient bone window for acceptable or better acquisition of flow information with ultrasound with TIBI ≤ 4 in the symptomatic artery
  • In cases with women of Childbearing Capacity (WOCBC): Only if willing to comply with effective contraception methods during the course of the trial. Acceptable methods are such as oral contraceptives, contraceptive patches, contraceptive implant, vaginal contraceptive, double-barrier methods (for example, condom and spermicide), intrauterine device (IUD), hormonal IUD

Exclusion

  • Patients with premorbid modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score ≥3;
  • Patients for whom a complete NIHSS cannot be obtained;
  • Hemiplegic migraine with no arterial occlusion on baseline Computed Tomography of brain (CT);
  • Seizure at stroke onset and no visible occlusion on baseline CT;
  • Intracranial haemorrhage on baseline CT;
  • Clinical presentation suggesting subarachnoid haemorrhage even if baseline CT is normal;
  • Large areas of hypodense ischaemic changes on baseline CT;
  • Pregnancy or breast-feeding, pericarditis; sepsis; any other serious medical illness likely to interact with treatment; confounding pre-existent neurological or psychiatric disease; unlikely to complete follow-up; any investigational drug \<14 days;
  • Inability to provide informed consent sufficiently clearly that the study physician can be convinced that informed consent has been given by the patient - such as severe aphasia or coma.
  • Specific sonothrombolysis exclusion criteria
  • known hypersensitivity/allergy to SonoVue;
  • recent or unstable coronary ischemia or resting angina \<7 days;
  • acute cardiac insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency class III/IV; serious cardiac arrhythmias;
  • any right-left-shunt; severe pulmonary hypertension; uncontrolled hypertension;
  • moderate to severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD; baseline O2 saturation \<80%);
  • acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS);

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 28 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 18 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

1 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03290053

Start Date

November 28 2017

End Date

April 18 2018

Last Update

May 11 2018

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University Hospital

Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden, 90821