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Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an important cause of young stroke which could result in major disability. Cohort studies suggested that 17% of young ischemic stroke were accountable by APS (1). Although warfarin has been the mainstay of treatment in APS for the past decades, recurrent thromboembolism occurred up to 10% of warfarinized patients with APS (2, 3). These observations call for an in-depth understanding of disease mechanisms secondary to antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). Contrary to traditional understanding, recent evidence suggested mechanisms of cerebrovascular ischemia in APS are far more complex than hypercoagulability alone. In the proposed cross-sectional study, we aim to determine the prevalence of intracranial stenosis, and to explore the correlations between the neuroimaging findings and the immunological as well as clinical features in patients with APS. In the proposed cross-sectional study, we aim to determine the prevalence of intracranial stenosis, and to explore the correlations between the neuroimaging findings and the immunological as well as clinical features in patients with APS.


Clinical Trial Description

In the proposed cross-sectional study, we aim to determine the prevalence of intracranial stenosis, and to explore the correlations between the neuroimaging findings and the immunological as well as clinical features in patients with APS. Upon reviewing the clinical and laboratory information in the medical specialist out-patient clinics, electronic patient record and/or through the Clinical Data Analysis And Reporting System (CDARS), investigators shall identify and recruit on-site APS patients who fulfilled the modified Sapporo criteria, currently aged ≥18 years, and receive care from the Prince of Wales Hospital. Investigators shall then arrange a study clinic visit for eligible patients. After obtaining an informed consent, patients will be subjected to cognitive assessment (Hong Kong Version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA)), blood pressure, pulse, body mass index measurement, urinalysis, and contrast MRI brain (see imaging assessment below). Demographic data (age, gender, smoking, drinking, ambulatory status), medical comorbidities (concurrent autoimmune diseases and their organ involvement, history of catastrophic APS, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, number and type of previous arterial or venous thromboembolism), laboratory parameters (complete blood count, liver and renal function test, C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sediment rate, high sensitive C-reaction protein, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, neurofilament light chain, titers of autoimmune markers including anti-nuclear antibodies, extractable nuclear antigen antibodies, aPLs, rheumatoid factor, anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, etc.), concurrent medications (aspirin, warfarin, direct oral anticoagulants, antihypertensives, statins, steroid, immunosuppressants, etc.). In another ongoing prospective Brain Health Longitudinal study which contained stroke- and dementia free participants (CREC Ref. No: 2018.148), investigators shall identify age- and gender-matched individuals without aPLs as controls. They will be assessed in the same manner as the APS patients. ;


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NCT number NCT05583305
Study type Observational
Source Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact
Status Enrolling by invitation
Phase
Start date October 12, 2022
Completion date July 17, 2026

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