Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Biomarkers of CASH

Lead Sponsor:

University of Chicago

Collaborating Sponsors:

Mayo Clinic

University of California, San Francisco

Conditions:

Cerebral Cavernous Malformation

Cavernous Angioma

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The project aims to develop prognostic and diagnostic blood tests for symptomatic brain hemorrhage in patients diagnosed with cavernous angiomas, a critical clinical challenge in a disease affecting m...

Detailed Description

Cerebral cavernous angioma (CA) is a capillary microangiopathy affecting more than a million Americans, predisposing them to a premature risk of brain hemorrhage. Fewer than 200,000 cases who have suf...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Aim 1 and 2:
  • Clinical diagnosis of CA
  • age 18 or older
  • solitary or multiple
  • familial or sporadic
  • with or without prior symptoms

Exclusion

  • Prior excision of a solitary CA lesion
  • prior stereotactic radiosurgery or any brain irradiation
  • spinal cavernoma without brain lesion
  • other brain pathology unrelated to CA (demyelinating disease, brain tumor)
  • seizures or stroke unrelated to CA in the prior year
  • current pregnancy or within 6 months postpartum
  • reluctance to undergo venipuncture or donate blood specimen, or be called for clinical follow-up for up to one year
  • homeless or incarcerated persons, or other reason a subject will be unable/unlikely to be reached for follow-up
  • Aim 3:
  • Inclusion Criteria:
  • \< 30 years of age
  • one or more seizures (with or without medical therapy) in the prior year
  • OR
  • \> 50 years of age
  • having received an MRI of the brain with SWI (susceptibility weighted imaging) sequences for any indication in the year prior to enrollment
  • No HMA on brain MRI SWI sequences
  • OR
  • \> 50 years of age
  • having received an MRI of the brain with SWI sequences for any indication in the year prior to enrollment
  • Two or more microbleeds on SWI brain MRI sequences, adjudicated by neuroradiologist

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 22 2020

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

June 30 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

1040 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04467489

Start Date

May 22 2020

End Date

June 30 2026

Last Update

August 11 2025

Active Locations (4)

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1

Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85013

2

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California, United States, 94117

3

The University of Chicago Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

4

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905