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Cardiac CT Angiography in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

NCT06176872 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 165

Last updated 2023-12-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Mortality rates after acute ischemic stroke remain high despite continuously improving treatment. In this context, it is important to note that a relevant portion of acute ischemic stroke patients die from adverse cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction, rather than from complications associated with the stroke itself. A possible reason might be that this patient group often suffers from at least moderate asymptomatic coronary artery disease. This study seeks to integrate cardiac computed tomography angiography into the standard-of-care diagnostic protocol of acute ischemic stroke. The aim of this prospective mono-centric trial is to enable accurate diagnosis of therapy-relevant coronary artery disease, other concomitant cardiac findings and cardiac causes of acute ischemic stroke, without delaying stroke therapy. In the long-run, the goal is to investigate whether cardiac computed tomography angiography and the resulting therapeutic measures (interventions or medications added) can improve functional outcome and rate of adverse cardiac complications in patients with acute ischemic stroke compared to a retrospective matched-cohort of patients without cardiac CT imaging.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography

Non-invasive imaging of the heart, the greater vessels and the coronary arteries using computed tomography.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gabriel Broocks, MD · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

  • Mathias Meyer, MD · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

  • Jennifer Erley, MD · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-01
Primary Completion
2025-01-01
Completion
2027-01-01

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