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Dabigatran Following Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Stroke

NCT02295826 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2019-01-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Rationale: To date, anticoagulant therapy in acute stroke has also been limited by excess hemorrhagic events. The oral anticoagulant dabigatran is a novel agent, which has been shown to be associated with much lower intracranial hemorrhage rates. It has been suggested that this agent may provide the superior benefits of anticoagulation in acute stroke, without the concomitant increase in hemorrhage risk associated with heparin/LMWH or warfarin.

Study Design: DATAS II is a randomized, open label blinded endpoint trial. Participants (n=300) with TIA or ischemic stroke (NIHSS score \<9) will be enrolled within 48 hours of symptom onset from approximately four (4) health care centres across Canada. All participants will have an MRI with DWI lesion volume \< 25 ml. Participants will be randomized 1:1 to treatment with dabigatran for 30 days or ASA 81 mg daily (current standard of care). All stroke patients will initially be screened with a non-contrast CT scan of the brain. The first MRI will be performed within 48 hours of symptom onset. Imaging studies will be repeated at day 30. All patients will be assessed clinically at Day 30 and Day 90.

Study Aims:

1. Establish the safety of early anticoagulation with the novel oral anticoagulant dabigatran in acute cerebrovascular syndrome patients.
2. Identify the rate of both symptomatic and asymptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (HT) associated with these treatments.
3. Identify predictors of HT associated with acute dabigatran treatment.

Hypothesis: The Investigators hypothesize that symptomatic HT rates in dabigatran and ASA treated patients will not be significantly different.

Study outcomes: The primary outcome is the rate of symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (HT), defined as a parenchymal hematoma, which is \>30% of the infarcted area on DWI, with substantial space- occupying effect, associated with clinical worsening (≥4 point increase in National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score) within 5 weeks of treatment initiation. The major secondary outcome the rate of asymtomatic HT see on day 30 MRI sequence.

Conditions

  • Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Minor Ischemic Stroke

Interventions

DRUG

Dabigatran

Dabigatran will be taken bid for 30 days post enrolment. The dose of dabigatran will be based on patient age and renal function.

DRUG

Acetylsalicylic acid

participants randomized to ASA therapy will be loaded with 325 mg of ASA, followed by 81 mg/day

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-12-18
Completion
2018-12-18

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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