REmote iSchemic Conditioning in acUtE BRAin INfarction Study (RESCUE-BRAIN)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02189928 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2018 by Pr Fernando PICO, Versailles Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 15, 2014
Last Update Posted : September 5, 2018
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Cerebral infarction is the most common form of stroke (80% of strokes). Stroke is the first cause of acquired disability, and the 2nd cause of dementia and death. The only approved treatment in the first 4.5 hour is intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis (Actilyse ®) whose objective is recanalization of occluded artery and reperfusion of the brain parenchyma. Few patients are treated (1-5%) and they keep disability in 50-60% of cases. This handicap is mainly correlated to the final infarct size. The objective of neuroprotective treatments is to reduce the final size of the cerebral infarction.
The per-conditioning remote ischemic (Per-CID) showed a neuroprotective effect in cerebral ischemia by reducing the final size of cerebral infarction animal models. The per-CID corresponds, in cases of cerebral ischemia, to iterative ischemia realization of a member with a cuff. In humans, the per-CID has shown a cardioprotective effect in a randomized control trial involving 250 patients within 6 first hours of myocardial infarction and candidate for primary angioplasty.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Cerebral Infarction | Device: Lower limb tourniquet Other: Usual care | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 200 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Lower Limb Ischaemic Per-conditioning in Acute Cerebral Infarction (<H6): Multicenter Randomized Study With Stratification on IV Thrombolysis and PROBE Design (Prospective Randomized Open Trial With Blinded End-Point) |
Actual Study Start Date : | January 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | January 2019 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | January 2019 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: With per-CID protocol
Usual care patients (thrombolysis or not ) with remote ischemic per-conditioning using an electronic tourniquet .
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Device: Lower limb tourniquet
Lower limb tourniquet will be put on half thigh. The protocol will include 4 cycles of inflation cuff 110 mm Hg above systolic blood pressure followed by 4 cycles of deflation in between. The total duration of per-CID protocol will be 40 minutes (4 phases of 5 minutes inflations' of and 4 phases of 5 minutes deflations'). |
Without per-CID protocol
Usual care patients (thrombolysis or not).
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Other: Usual care |
- Brain MRI changes of DWI ( Diffusion-Weighted Imaging) brain infarction volume (cc) between baseline (<H6) and day 1 in the 2 groups of patients ( Remote Ischemic Perconditioning and control) [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]Central lecture of brain MRI, blinded to clinical data, randomisation group and day of MRI realization ( day 0 or day 1) Endpoint criteria: DWI volume d1-d0 (cc) measured by a dedicated software (Neurinfarct) Comparison of DWI volume d1-d0 between the 2 groups ( Per-CID group and control)
- Percentage of patients with Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) <2 at 3 months in the 2 groups (PerCID and control) [ Time Frame: 3 months ]Percentage of patients with Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) <2 ( i.e. favorable outcome with no disability) at 3 months in the 2 groups (PerCID and control)
- safety of remote perconditioning ischemic process [ Time Frame: 7 days ]- Rate of lower limb ischemia and deep venous thrombosis in Per CID group
- safety of remote perconditioning ischemic process [ Time Frame: 7 days ]Rate of early neurological worsening (NIHSS score (d1- d0) > 4 points) in Per-CID and control group
- safety of remote perconditioning ischemic process [ Time Frame: 7 days ]Percentage of hemorrhagic transformation in case of IV thrombolysis in the 2 groups

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients ≥ 18 years
- Carotid ischemic stroke
- NIHSS score between 5 and 25
- Brain MRI performed within 6 hours from symptoms onset
- Obtaining a written informed consent of the patient or a third party (parent or close), or emergency inclusion process
- Affiliated with a Medicare (or rightful beneficiary)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of a leg ulcer or a bad skin condition in the lower limbs
- History of arterial occlusive disease of the lower limbs
- Sickle cell disease known (risk of vaso-occlusive crisis)
- History of phlebitis in the lower limbs
- History of cerebral infarction older than 3 months
- Participation in another interventional acute phase protocol
- Patients under guardianship
- Pathologies involving life-threatening within 6 months and making it impossible to evaluate to 3 months
- Patient non-self before the ischemic stroke (Rankin Score previous> 2)
- Pregnant Women

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02189928
France | |
Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien | |
Corbeil-Essonne, France, 91100 | |
Hôpital Henri Mondor | |
Créteil, France, 94000 | |
Centre Hospitalier de Versailles | |
Le Chesnay, France, 78150 | |
CHU de Nantes | |
Nantes, France, 44093 | |
Hôpital Pitie-Salpêtrière | |
Paris, France, 75013 | |
Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild | |
Paris, France, 75019 | |
Hôpital Bichat | |
Paris, France, 78018 | |
CHU de Strasbourg | |
Strasbourg, France, 67098 | |
Hôpital Foch | |
Suresnes, France, 92150 |
Principal Investigator: | Fernando PICO, Neurology Department head | Versailles Hospital |
Responsible Party: | Pr Fernando PICO, Investigator coordinator, Versailles Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02189928 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
P14/01_RESCUE BRAIN 2014-A00104-43 ( Registry Identifier: ID RCB ) |
First Posted: | July 15, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 5, 2018 |
Last Verified: | September 2018 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Undecided |
Cerebral Infarction Infarction Ischemia Pathologic Processes Necrosis Brain Infarction Brain Ischemia |
Cerebrovascular Disorders Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Stroke Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |