ITCH Trial: Protocol for a Randomized, Double Blind Placebo-controlled Trial

Cerebral Hemorrhage Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of Intravenous Tranexamic Acid in Primary Cerebral Hemorrhage for Prevention of Hematoma Progression: Protocol for a Randomized, Double Blind Placebo-controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04742205
• Other study ID #: KathmanduMCTH
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Start date: January 18, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 5, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Intracerebral hemorrhage is increasingly becoming a major burden in the society because of significant morbidity as well as mortality. Hematoma volume at the time of presentation as well as hematoma expansion and re-bleed or ongoing bleed further deteriorates the patient making a poor prognosis, however at present no therapy targets this pathological process. Though clinical studies do report benefit of using tranexamic acid in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage by reducing hematoma expansion rate as well as decreasing ongoing bleed, large randomized controlled trials have not shown any convincing advantage owing to various limitations in their design and methods. However, they uniformly did not find any significant side effect with the use of tranexamic acid.

The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that intravenous tranexamic acid is superior to placebo by reducing hematoma expansion when given within 24 h of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.

Description:

Patients and Methods: Data are being collected as patient gets admitted with Intracerebral haemorrhage. 142 spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage patients presenting within 24 hours of ictus or last known well will be taken in the study. Outcomes of these patients will be calculated to establish a relationship between hematoma expansion, underlying pathology and outcome of the patients.

Results: Primary outcome i.e. radiological improvement (CT scan): Difference between hematoma volume with perilesional edema from baseline and 48-hour post treatment scan, hematoma location, and new infarction.

Secondary outcomes: Neurological impairment (NIHSS), Disability (Barthel index), dependency (mRS) and Glasgow outcome scale on day of discharge and day 30. Cognition (Telephone Interview Cognition Score-Modified), dependency (mRS) and Glasgow outcome scale at days 90 and 180. Similarly, costs: Length of stay in hospital, readmission, ability to return back to daily activities. Also, Safety endpoints recorded until day 180: Death (cause), venous thromboembolism confirmed by ultrasound, vascular occlusive events (stroke/transient ischemic attack/myocardial infarction/peripheral artery disease), seizures. Serious adverse events (AEs) in first seven days will be analyzed and calculated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 142
• Est. completion date: June 5, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 5, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. All patients presenting to the emergency department with symptom of hemorrhagic stroke within 24 hours from onset of symptom or last seen well.

2. Patient who had a follow up

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Glasgow coma scale <8 after resuscitation (as this can lead to biasness; requires surgery)

2. Contraindication to tranexamic acid,

3. Hemorrhagic stroke secondary to trauma,

4. Hemorrhage was caused by coagulopathy

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Hemorrhage
• Hemorrhage

Intervention

Drug:
• Tranexamic Acid 500 MG
Loading dose of trial (1g of tranexamic acid in 10ml) is mixed in 100ml sodium chloride 0.9% and given over 10 minutes. Maintenance dose of trial mixed in 500ml sodium chloride 0.9% is given over 8 hours

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Nepal	KMC Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal	Kathmandu	Bagmati

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Nepal, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Death	Number of death	day 180
Primary	Radiological improvement (CT scan)	Difference between hematoma volume from baseline and 48-hour post treatment scan	48 hour
Secondary	National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale	Neurological impairment (score:0-42; 0:favourable outcome)	day 10, 30
Secondary	Barthel index	Disability (score:0-100; 100: independent)	days 10 and 30
Secondary	modified rankin scale	dependency (score:0-5; 0: no symptom)	days 10 and 30, 90, 180
Secondary	Glasgow outcome Scale	dependency (score:1-5; 1: death)	days 10 and 30, 90, 180