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Filter by:The objective of this clinical trial is to explore the efficacy of menopausal hormone therapy in early menopausal women with CSVD and MCI. The main questions it aims to answer are: - The efficacy of menopausal hormone mainly estrogen therapy for early menopausal women with CSVD and MCI - The role of MHT in delaying the progression of cognitive function, CSVD imaging features, and other clinical symptoms and the potential pathophysiological mechanisms. Participants will be divided randomly into two groups taking MHT drugs and placebo respectively and followed up for 12 months to collect relevant clinical data.
This early phase trial will address the following key objectives: 1. Completion of initial safety and tolerability testing of our viable prototype for remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) with patients with (a) CSVD and (b) acute ischemic stroke. 2. Usability testing of the prototype with patients and healthcare professionals, with further optimization. Approximately 24 patients with CSVD will be recruited to use the RIC device daily for 60 days and provide feedback. They will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either true RIC therapy or sham control for the first 30 days, after which the sham group will cross over to receive true RIC for the remaining 30 days. Feasibility testing will be done in the mobile stroke unit on up to 10 patients with acute ischemic stroke. An additional 10 stroke physicians and paramedics will conduct device usability testing and provide feedback.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cerebral autoregulation in patients with cerebral small vessel disease.
Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, frequently resulting in persistent cognitive deficits among survivors. These deficits negatively impact recovery and therapy engagement, and their treatment is consistently rated as high priority by stakeholders and clinicians. Although clinical guidelines endorse cognitive screening for post-stroke management, there is currently no gold standard approach for identifying cognitive deficits after stroke, and clinical stroke services lack the capacity for long-term cognitive monitoring and care. Currently available assessment tools are either not stroke-specific, not in-depth or lack scalability, leading to heterogeneity in patient assessments. To address these challenges, a cost-effective, scalable, and comprehensive screening tool is needed to provide a stroke-specific assessment of cognition. The current study presents such a novel digital tool, the Imperial Comprehensive Cognitive Assessment in Cerebrovascular Disease (IC3), designed to detect both domain-general and domain-specific cognitive deficits in patients after stroke with minimal input from a health professional. To ensure its reliability, we will utilise multiple validation approaches, and aim to recruit a large normative sample of age-, gender-, and education-matched UK-based controls. Moreover, the IC3 assessment will be integrated within a larger prospective observational longitudinal clinical trial, where post-stroke cognition will be examined in tandem with brain imaging and blood biomarkers to identify novel multimodal biomarkers of recovery after stroke. By leveraging this rich dataset, our study will allow more precise targeting of cognitive rehabilitation to stroke survivors that are most at risk of progressive cognitive decline and have the greatest potential for recovery.
The main objective of this research is to obtain biological markers of smooth muscle cells dysfunction or degeneration in cerebral small vessel diseases. The aim of this research is therefore to build up a biocollection of CSF and blood samples from 1) patients with CADASIL disease (the most common form of cSVD) responsible for an accumulation of the NOTCH3 protein in the microvessel wall, 2) patients with other forms of monogenic cSVD (rarer) which are not responsible for an accumulation of this protein despite the damage to the smooth muscle cells of the vessel wall and 3) control patients without cSVD, collected in the context of care. This bio-collection will allow the identification and assay of markers testifying to the damage of the smooth muscle cells (SMC) in different types of cSVD of hereditary origin, the first of which will be the soluble NOTCH3 protein.
This is a nested cohort study in the PRO-SVD cohort. Small vessel disease is a chronic disease and is thought to progress over time. MRI is the gold standard to diagnose small vessel disease, but data on MRI-visible disease progression are scarce. Complications of small vessel disease as well as location pattern, distribution and severity of these MRI small vessel disease markers differ according to the underlying phenotype. The primary aim of this project is to investigate individual small vessel disease burden progression detected by MRI in survivors or intracerebral hemorrhage.
A prospective observational cohort study in patients with cerebral small vessel disease deterring whether changes in systemic inflammation predict brain white matter damage measured using MRI and cognitive decline. This is a study funded by a joint BHF-Dutch Heart Foundation research grant and will be conducted in both Cambridge UK and Nijmegen Netherlands with 100 of the 200 total participants recruited at each site, and data from both sites analysed together.
Prognosis of small vessel disease (SVD) depends on the underlying type of SVD and index manifestation. The aim of this prospective, observational cohort study is to determine the risk of different outcome events among patients with SVD according to the type of index presentation.
This study aims to obtain the characteristics of cognitive impairment and imaging characteristics of patients with Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) through comprehensive and standardized neuropsychological assessment and multimodal imaging examination. The focus is to obtain the characteristics of cognitive impairment and imaging characteristics of patients with CSVD through 3.0T MRI SWI sequence. deep medullary veins (DMVs) were measured. To compare the demographic data, hematological indexes, imaging scores and the number of DMVs between CSVD groups with and without cognitive impairment, and to explore the correlation between deep medullary veins and cognitive dysfunction in cerebral small vessel disease.
The purpose of this research study is to see if high-speed weight training performed in a circuit (using one machine after another) can improve participant heart and brain function, strength, and power in older persons.