Safety and Tolerability of BIII 890 in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 97

Inclusion Criteria

Male or female patients aged 18 years or above
Patients with an acute onset of a focal neurological deficit secondary to a lesion presumed to be ischemic in etiology involving the carotid and/or vertebrobasilar artery territories
Onset of symptoms within 24 hours prior to initiation of administration of study drug. If the patient has awakened from sleep with the deficit, the time of onset will be considered as the last time he/she was normal
Stroke symptoms are to be present for at least 1 hour and are still present at randomisation. Symptoms must be distinguishable from an episode of generalised ischemia (i.e. syncope), seizure, migraine or hypoglycaemic disorder
Patient is willing to participate voluntarily and to sign a written patient informed consent. Informed consent will be obtained from each Patient (or the subject's representative or relatives, depending on local regulations) according to Good Clinical Practice and regulatory and legal requirements of the participating country. Patients who are unable to sign but who are able to understand the meaning of participation in the study may give an oral witnessed informed consent. These patients have to make clear undoubtfully that they are wiling to participate voluntarily and must be able to understand an Explanation of the contents of the Information sheet
Patient's life expectancy is at least 30 days (investigator's judgement)

Exclusion Criteria

Presence of only minor stroke symptoms as characterised by a NIH score of < 4 at the time of randomisation
Severe obtundation as defined by a NIH Stroke Scale score of ≥ 2 using the Level of Consciousness category; including coma or severe stupor
Any patient with a concurrent, severe neurological disease
- Dementia, multi-infarct dementia
- Multiple sclerosis
- Previous stroke with residual deficit (i.e. pre-stroke modified Rankin Scale (mRS) must be ≤ 1). Tomographic or clinical evidence of brain stem infarct, any intracranial haemorrhage, primary or metastatic brain tumour, meningioma, or other space occupying lesion (e.g., subdural or epidural haematoma)
- Patient with history of seizure related or not to their stroke diagnosis, except seizure secondary to fever in the childhood
Any patients with a concurrent mental deficit (e.g., AXIS-I psychiatric disorders as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV criteria: schizophrenia, mood disorders (mania or major depression), psychotic/delusional disorders, a recent history (6 months) or current evidence of alcohol or recreational drug abuse
Baseline blood glucose values below 2.75 mmol/l (hypoglycaemia) or above 22.0 mmol/l (hyperglycaemia)
Sustained supine hypertension during the baseline period, and prior to randomisation, as defined as two readings 30 minutes apart with a systolic blood pressure ≥ 220 mmHg and/or a diastolic blood pressure ≥ 120 mmHg; and/or clinical diagnosis of malignant hypertensive crisis accompanied by other signs or symptoms (e.g. nausea, vomiting, obtundation, etc.) or complications (e.g. papilledema, retinal haemorrhage, hematuria, or congestive heart failure)
Patients with known history of orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts. Hypotension as defined by a systolic blood pressure ≤ 90 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure ≤ 50 mmHg
Patients currently on oral anticoagulants. A time window of at least two days should be observed when such a treatment has been administered and stopped before the beginning of the trial
Known history of a serious, advanced, unstable or terminal illness that in the opinion of the clinical investigator may interfere with the trial by confounding the results or pose an additional risk:
- cardiogenic shock, congestive heart failure (NYHA Class III-IV), acute myocardial infarction or history of a myocardial infarction within the past three months, unstable angina
- renal failure, severe hepatic disease, unstable gastrointestinal, pulmonary, metabolic, immunological, hormonal disorders
- cancer (except local skin cancers, e.g.: basal or squamous carcinoma)
- HIV+
Females who are lactating or pregnant (as determined by a pregnancy test during screening) or of childbearing potential
Current or recent (within 3 months) participation in another investigational drug protocol
Patient cannot be followed for 30 days (according to the judgement of the investigator)

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Placebo	Placebo	-
BIII 890 CL	BIII 890 CL	escalating doses

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of patients with adverse events	up to 45 days
Number of patients with clinically relevant findings in vital signs	up to 30 days
Number of patients with clinically relevant findings in electrocardiogram (ECG)	up to 45 days
Number of patients with clinically relevant findings in laboratory evaluation	up to 45 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Maximum concentration in plasma	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Time to reach maximum concentration in plasma	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Terminal elimination half-life	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Terminal rate constant	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Area under the plasma concentration-time curve	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Mean residence time	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Plasma clearance	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Volume of distribution at steady state	up to 120 hours after drug administration
Glutamate plasma concentrations	up to 72 hours after start of infusion
Change in modified Rankin Scale	Baseline, day 30
Barthel Index	Day 30
Change in NIH stroke scale	Baseline, day 1, 3, 7 and 30

Safety and Tolerability of BIII 890 in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Recruitment & Eligibility

Study & Design

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