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Pilot study on the physiological response of robotic rehabilitation therapy for improving the performance of activities of daily living of stroke patients
30% - 66% of stroke survivors have upper limb dysfunction. Effective rehabilitation can improve the prognosis, but the rehabilitation resources are limited. How to evaluate the prognosis early and formulate an individualized rehabilitation plan based on realistic expectations is still inconclusive. The current research shows that some brain network changes are related to the recovery of motor function. The dynamic connection of multi-modal and spatio-temporal fusion of motor network is helpful to the prognosis analysis of upper limb dyskinesia after stroke. 178 stroke patients will be included in this project. Fugl-Meyer motor function scale (upper limb part) and Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) will be evaluated at enrollment, 1month/3month/6month after onset. According to the results, the groups with good prognosis and poor prognosis will be distinguished; blood oxygen level dependent imaging and diffusion tensor imaging will be collected at the same time to compare the similarities and differences of the function and structural connection of the motion network; the correlation between interhemispheric connection, intrahemispheric connection, cross network connection of motor network and prognosis will be analyzed, the clinical and imaging features of different prognosis will be extracted. This study can provide scientific data support for the prognosis analysis of upper limb dysfunction after stroke, the improvement of rehabilitation clinical decision-making and the optimization of rehabilitation resource allocation.
A two stage phase 2 study with an interim analysis to provide evidence that subjects provided with early administration of NanO2 who are located at small rural spoke hospitals and identified with large vessel occlusion ischemic strokes as well as viable penumbra prior to transfer to larger hub hospitals and who continue dosing NanO2 until revascularization is achieved by intravenous alteplase and/or mechanical thrombectomy, will experience stroke recovery by shifting ischemic brain tissue to normal tissue pO2 environments.
To assess whether PFO closure plus antiplatelet therapy is superior to antiplatelet therapy alone and whether oral anticoagulant therapy is superior to antiplatelet therapy to prevent stroke recurrence in patients aged 60 to 80 years with a PFO with large shunt (> 20 microbubbles) or a PFO associated with an ASA (> 10 mm), and an otherwise unexplained ischemic stroke.
Stroke is one of the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Post-stroke spasticity (PSS) is outbreak after a stroke and is featured by disabling muscle stiffness. PSS could manifest in up tp 50% cases within 6 months after a stroke, especially in the upper limb. Despite it is an acknowledged condition it is insufficiently recognized and treated in clinical practice. Focal and regional spasticity could improve with rehabilitation and in selected cases with botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) type A injections. The latter causes muscle relaxation and fosters neuroplasticity, which is able in turn of ameliorating several patient functional aspects. Recent literature demonstrated that PSS patients treated with early BoNT (within 3 month since PSS outbreak) could improve in their clinical status better than patients with a later treatment. An earlier recognition of PSS predictors could improve patient management. Hence, the investigators are going to perform a multicentric prospective observational real life study with BoNT, based on the best clinical practice and aimed at the early recognition and management of PSS through the identification of 1) early clinical predictors of spasticity (collected within 10 days since stroke), 2) BoNT clinical outcome relative to the timing of the treatment
Stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) is one of the important risk factors influencing poor outcomes and death in stroke patients. Over the past two decades, accumulating evidence suggests that post-stroke brain injury mobilizes the adrenergic system, which induces post-stroke immunosuppression and SAP. This study is designed to test the safety and efficacy of an adrenergic β-receptor blocker, propranolol, with or without combination of antibiotics, in reducing SAP in stroke patients. The underlying immune mechanisms will be investigated.
The study will be a prospective, randomized, double- blinded placebo, single center pilot clinical trial. Patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion undergoing endovascular thrombectomy will be included. The treatment group will receive 200 mg intravenous/oral minocycline hydrochloride in addition to endovascular thrombectomy for a total of 21 days. The control group will receive standard medical and endovascular care along with a similar looking placebo. Patients will be randomized to the treatment or control group by the Pharmacy eliminating the selection bias. The patient and evaluator will be blind to the allocation of patients further minimizing the bias. Through randomization we expect to achieve two groups that are comparable in their baseline clinical characteristics.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the benefits in the atrial fibrillation detection rate of the continuous ECG monitoring group for more than 8 days by contrasting with one-day ECG monitoring using MEMO Patch PLUS in 1000 patients with atrial fibrillation-related symptoms in the high risk group of stroke. The participant is allocated randomly to One-day ECG monitoring group or the continuous ECG monitoring group for more than 8 days in ratio of 1:1, only if the participant provides informed consent and eligible for all the inclusion/exclusion criteria. The investigator confirms the results of MEMO Patch PLUS monitoring at 1 month from the date of MEMO Patch PLUS attachment. The participation of the subject is terminated on the 1 year from the date of MEMO Patch PLUS attachment. On that day, investigator evaluates incidence of the event associated with atrial fibrillation, the event is included ischemic stroke/transient ischemic accident, hemorrhagic stroke, systemic embolism, etc.
Further studies are needed to provide more detailed information on the potential effects of robotic gait training in general, as well as on the influence on gait movement patterns in particular. Patient perspectives and feedback contribute to the continuous development of exoskeletal technology. For these reasons, the main objective of this study is to decipher the relationship between EksoNR's robotic control settings and walking biomechanics in stroke patients and healthy subjects; the second objective is to discover the user experience during the use of EksoNR.