Thursday, July 02, 2015

escape TRIAL


PROBE two-arm superiority trial of 316 patients with acute ischemic disabling stroke, NIHSS > 5, capable of being randomized up to 12 hours after onset.

CT/CTA, NECT and CTA (multiphase): door to imaging <25 minutes

Small infarct core (ASPECTS = 6-10 or CTP)

Occluded proximal artery in anterior circulation, MCA -M1 or 2 or more M2, moderate to good collaterals(filling of 50% of the pial MCA on CTA)

1:1 randomization of 58 patients who received IV rtPA within 4.5 hours

Receive guideline-based care alone or guideline-based care plus endovascular treatment with the use of available thrombectomy devices. The use of retrievable stents and suction through a balloon guide catheter during thrombus retrieval was also recommended.

The primary outcome was the odds ratio that the intervention would lead to lower scores on the mRS at 90 days (shift analysis).
 
Results:

Interim analysis after the O'Brien Fleming stopping boundary was crossed.

Primary Outcome: The adjusted odds ratio (indicating the odds of improvement of 1 point on the mRS) was 3.1 (95% CI, 2.0 to 4.7) favoring endovascular intervention.

The difference in proportion of patients with a mRS of 0-2 at 90 days was 53% in favor of the intervention group versus 23.7% in the control group (p<0.001).

Retrievable stents were used in 86.1% who underwent an endovascular procedure.

TICI 2b/3 recanalization was observed in 72.4% in the endovascular group.

The number randomized after 6 hours was too small to reach any conclusions regarding intervention beyond 6 hours.
 
COMMENT
used cta AND ct-p AND ASPECTS SCORE

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