REmote iSchemic Conditioning in acUtE BRAin INfarction Study — RESCUE-BRAIN  

Cerebral Infarction Clinical Trial

Official title: Lower Limb Ischaemic Per-conditioning in Acute Cerebral Infarction (<H6): Multicenter Randomized Study With Stratification on IV Thrombolysis and PROBE Design (Prospective Randomized Open Trial With Blinded End-Point)

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Cerebral infarction is the most common form of stroke (80% of strokes). Stroke is the first cause of acquired disability, and the 2nd cause of dementia and death. The only approved treatment in the first 4.5 hour is intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis (Actilyse ®) whose objective is recanalization of occluded artery and reperfusion of the brain parenchyma. Few patients are treated (1-5%) and they keep disability in 50-60% of cases. This handicap is mainly correlated to the final infarct size. The objective of neuroprotective treatments is to reduce the final size of the cerebral infarction.

The per-conditioning remote ischemic (Per-CID) showed a neuroprotective effect in cerebral ischemia by reducing the final size of cerebral infarction animal models. The per-CID corresponds, in cases of cerebral ischemia, to iterative ischemia realization of a member with a cuff. In humans, the per-CID has shown a cardioprotective effect in a randomized control trial involving 250 patients within 6 first hours of myocardial infarction and candidate for primary angioplasty.

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Infarction
• Infarction

• NCT number: NCT02189928
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Versailles Hospital
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2015
• Completion date: January 2019