POSITIVE: PerfusiOn Imaging Selection of Ischemic STroke PatIents for EndoVascular ThErapy
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Ischemic Stroke
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Enrollment
- 33
- Locations
- 20
- Primary Endpoint
- Rate of Good Functional Outcomes Measured by Modified Rankin Score (mRS)
- Status
- Terminated
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Primary Endpoint:
The primary objective is to show that AIS patients, ineligible for or refractory to treatment with IV-tPA, with appropriate image selection, treated with mechanical thrombectomy within 6-12 hours of symptom onset have less stroke related disability and improved good functional outcomes as compared to those treated with best MT with respect to endpoint defined as:
• 90-day global disability assessed via the modified Rankin score (mRS), analyzed using raw mRS scores. Statistical details can be found in section 7.2.
Secondary Endpoints:
- 90-day global disability in the 6-12 hr cohort assessed via the overall distribution of mRS
- Proportion of patients with good functional recovery for the 6-12 hr cohort as defined by mRS 0-2 at 90 days
- Mortality at 30 and 90 days
- Intracranial hemorrhage with neurological deterioration (NIHSS worsening >4) within 24 hours of randomization
- Procedure related serious adverse events (SAE's)
- Arterial revascularization measured by TICI 2b or 3 following device use
Detailed Description
Intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) administration has been shown to be safe and effective for treatment of AIS within 3 hours of symptom onset, and newer evidence has shown potential benefit out to 4.5 hours. Mechanical thrombectomy for AIS patients has been shown in clinical trials to be safe up to 8 hours after symptom onset. The rapid progression of thrombectomy devices over the last several years has resulted in faster recanalization times while maintaining a high degree of safety. This has resulted in improved patient outcomes, similar to prior randomized trial data showing improved outcomes over medical therapy or earlier devices. Data from the MERCI trial suggests that patients \> 85 as well as those with a baseline NIHSS score \> 30 are unlikely to benefit from thrombectomy. Patients with rapidly improving neurologic deficits likely will have an excellent recovery with conventional care, precluding the ability to detect a beneficial treatment effect of thrombectomy. Pilot data incorporating physiologic imaging has shown that appropriate patients can be selected for thrombectomy. This selection methodology has shown the ability to maintain the same level of safety and efficacy as those patients treated in the highly selective environment of a clinical trial, despite presenting far beyond accepted time based standards. Vertebrobasilar occlusion patients are excluded to maintain a homogenous study population, particularly since no data currently is available addressing the comparability of imaging penumbral patterns in the anterior vs. posterior circulation. This has also been shown to be reproducible at multiple centers and with different imaging modalities. However, all prospective interventional stroke studies performed to date have been restricted by the 8-hour time window.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age 18 and older (i.e., candidates must have had their 18th birthday)
- •NIHSS ≥8 at the time of neuroimaging
- •Presenting or persistent symptoms within 6-12 hours of when groin puncture can be obtained
- •Neuroimaging demonstrates large vessel proximal occlusion (distal ICA through MCA M1 bifurcation)
- •The operator feels that the stroke can be appropriately treated with traditional endovascular techniques (endovascular mechanical thrombectomy without adjunctive devices such as stents)
- •Pts are within 6-12 hours of symptom onset, that have received IV-tPA without improvement in symptoms are eligible for this study. Patients presenting earlier than 6 hours should be treated according to local standard of care.
- •Pre-event Modified Rankin Scale score 0-1
- •Consenting requirements met according to local IRB
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patient is less than 6-hours from symptom onset
- •Rapidly improving neurologic examination
- •Absence of large vessel occlusion on non-invasive imaging
- •Known or suspected pre-existing (chronic) large vessel occlusion in the symptomatic territory
- •Absence of an associated large penumbra as defined by physiologic imaging according to standard of practice at the participating institution
- •Any intracranial hemorrhage in the last 90 days
- •Known irreversible bleeding disorder
- •Known hereditary or acquired hemorrhagic diathesis, coagulation factor deficiency, or oral anticoagulant therapy with INR \> 2.5 or institutionally equivalent prothrombin time of 2.5 times normal
- •Platelet count \< 100 x 103 cells/mm3 or known platelet dysfunction
- •Inability to tolerate, clinically documented evidence in medical history of adverse reaction to, or contraindication to medications used in treatment of the stroke
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Rate of Good Functional Outcomes Measured by Modified Rankin Score (mRS)
Time Frame: 90 days
Modified rankin score measures the degree of disability or dependence in the daily activities of people who have suffered a stroke or other causes of neurological disability. The range is 0-6 (0 is highest function with no symptoms and 6 is death). This outcome measured percentage of subjects with a "good" functional outcome with a score ranging from 0-2. The primary objective is to show that AIS patients, ineligible for or refractory to treatment with IV-tPA, (patients seen within 6 hours of symptom onset will be immediately considered for endovascular therapy according to the site's standard of care. Likewise, patients presenting beyond 12 hours will be treated according to the site's standard of care), with appropriate image selection, treated with mechanical thrombectomy within 6-12 hours of symptom onset have less stroke related disability and improved good functional outcomes as compared to those treated with best MT.
Secondary Outcomes
- Percentage of Participants Mortality at 90 Days(90 days)
- Percentage of Participants in the 6-12hr Cohort With Good Functional Recovery as Assessed by the Modified Rankin Scale (mRS)(90 days)
- Percentage of Participants Mortality at 30 Days(30 days)
- Percentage of Participants With ICH (Intracranial Hemorrhage) With Neurological Deterioration (NIHSS Worsening >4).(90 days)
- Percentage of Participants With SAE's Related to a Thrombectomy Procedure(90 days)
- Arterial Revascularization Measured by TICI 2b or 3 Following Device Use(90 days)
- Percentage of Patients With Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) Related to Thrombectomy Device.(90 days)
- Percentage of Participants in the 6-12 hr Cohort With Global Disability as Assessed by the Modified Rankin Score (mRS)(90 day)