Effect of Cerebrolysin on the Blood Brain Barrier in Patients With Diabetes and Ischemic Stroke

NCT ID: NCT06273020

Last Updated: 2024-02-22

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-17

Study Completion Date

2024-12-31

Brief Summary

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A prospective, single-center study would be carried out in the Neurology Department of the University Hospital "Dr. José Eleuterio González" in order to analyze the effect of cerebrolysin on the blood-brain-barrier in patients with ischemic stroke with personal history of type-2 diabetes

Detailed Description

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A prospective, single-center study would be carried out in the Neurology Department of the University Hospital "Dr. José Eleuterio González" in order to analyze the effect of cerebrolysin on the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) in patients with ischemic stroke (IS) of the middle cerebral artery with personal history of type-2 diabetes (T2D).

The main objective is to compare the effect of cerebrolysin on the BBB in the above mentioned patients with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and without IVT.

The hypothesis of this study is that cerebrolysin can affect the BBB permeability after 10 days of the administration of this drug

Conditions

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Ischemic Stroke, Acute Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Blood Brain Barrier

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

There are 3 groups in this clinical trial

Group 1: 20 patients with previous intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in the qualifying stroke and who agreed to receive and got selected (through randomization) cerebrolysin.

Group 2 : 20 patients with previous IVT in the qualifying stroke and who agreed to receive cerebrolysin but they were not choose through randomization.

Group 3: 20 patients that they were not candidates to receive IVT (out of therapeutic window) but agreed to receive cerebrolysin (randomization not used)
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intravenous thrombolysis and cerebrolysin

Group 1: 20 patients with previous intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in the qualifying stroke and who agreed to receive and got selected (through randomization) cerebrolysin.

Cerebrolysin would be prepared according to manufacturer's instructions: 30 mL of cerebrolysin in 100 ml of saline solution every 24 hours to a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cerebrolysin

Intervention Type DRUG

Cerebrolysin would be prepared according to manufacturer's instructions: 30 mL of cerebrolysin in 100 ml of saline solution every 24 hours to a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days

Brain-MRI with contrast after 10-14 days of cerebrolysin

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption will be measured using dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging. DSC MRI is collected during the injection of a gadolinium bolus and the majority of the change in recorded signal in this T2-weighted sequence is due to intravascular contrast. However, in the setting of gadolinium leakage through the BBB into the brain parenchyma, the recorded signal is altered by a T1 effect. An arrival time correction is performed to account for regional difference in blood flow after which the signal is separated into an intravascular and an extravascular component using a comparison with unaffected tissue.The extravascular component is captured with the metric K2 which reflects the fraction of the recorded signal that is due to gadolinium leakage and is a measure of BBB disruption.

Intravenous thrombolysis without cerebrolysin

Group 2 : 20 patients with previous IVT in the qualifying stroke and who agreed to receive cerebrolysin but they were not choose through randomization.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Brain-MRI with contrast after 10-14 days of cerebrolysin

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption will be measured using dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging. DSC MRI is collected during the injection of a gadolinium bolus and the majority of the change in recorded signal in this T2-weighted sequence is due to intravascular contrast. However, in the setting of gadolinium leakage through the BBB into the brain parenchyma, the recorded signal is altered by a T1 effect. An arrival time correction is performed to account for regional difference in blood flow after which the signal is separated into an intravascular and an extravascular component using a comparison with unaffected tissue.The extravascular component is captured with the metric K2 which reflects the fraction of the recorded signal that is due to gadolinium leakage and is a measure of BBB disruption.

Patients with cerebrolysin without IVT

Group 3: 20 patients that they were not candidates to receive IVT (out of therapeutic window) but agreed to receive cerebrolysin (randomization not used)

Cerebrolysin would be prepared according to manufacturer's instructions: 30 mL of cerebrolysin in 100 ml of saline solution every 24 hours to a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days

Group Type OTHER

Cerebrolysin

Intervention Type DRUG

Cerebrolysin would be prepared according to manufacturer's instructions: 30 mL of cerebrolysin in 100 ml of saline solution every 24 hours to a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days

Brain-MRI with contrast after 10-14 days of cerebrolysin

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption will be measured using dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging. DSC MRI is collected during the injection of a gadolinium bolus and the majority of the change in recorded signal in this T2-weighted sequence is due to intravascular contrast. However, in the setting of gadolinium leakage through the BBB into the brain parenchyma, the recorded signal is altered by a T1 effect. An arrival time correction is performed to account for regional difference in blood flow after which the signal is separated into an intravascular and an extravascular component using a comparison with unaffected tissue.The extravascular component is captured with the metric K2 which reflects the fraction of the recorded signal that is due to gadolinium leakage and is a measure of BBB disruption.

Interventions

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Cerebrolysin

Cerebrolysin would be prepared according to manufacturer's instructions: 30 mL of cerebrolysin in 100 ml of saline solution every 24 hours to a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days

Intervention Type DRUG

Brain-MRI with contrast after 10-14 days of cerebrolysin

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption will be measured using dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging. DSC MRI is collected during the injection of a gadolinium bolus and the majority of the change in recorded signal in this T2-weighted sequence is due to intravascular contrast. However, in the setting of gadolinium leakage through the BBB into the brain parenchyma, the recorded signal is altered by a T1 effect. An arrival time correction is performed to account for regional difference in blood flow after which the signal is separated into an intravascular and an extravascular component using a comparison with unaffected tissue.The extravascular component is captured with the metric K2 which reflects the fraction of the recorded signal that is due to gadolinium leakage and is a measure of BBB disruption.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age 18 - 80 years.
2. Clinical and imaging criteria for ischemic stroke of the middle cerebral artery.
3. Acute non-lacunar cerebral infarction.
4. Cerebral infarction with a score on the NIH scale between 5 and 20 points.
5. Patient with a previous diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus, regardless of the form of diagnosis, time of evolution, previous or current treatment, adherence or not to treatment, presence or absence of microvascular and/or macrovascular complications.
6. mRs ≤ 1 before the qualifying stroke (functionally independent for all activities of daily living).
7. The patient and/or legal representative or direct family member has signed the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Advanced disease or terminal with life expectancy \< 6 months.
2. \- Over 80 years old
3. Lacunar infarction or small vessel disease.
4. Pre-existing medical, neurological, or psychiatric disease that would confound neurological or functional evaluations (eg, Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Parkinson's disease, demyelinating disease, encephalopathy of any cause, history of significant alcohol or drug abuse).
5. Pregnancy or lactation.
6. Acute or chronic renal failure with creatinine clearance \<30 mL/min.
7. Allergy or any condition that represents a contraindication for the administration of Cerebrolysin.
8. Treatment with another investigational drug within the past 30 days that may interfere with the study drug.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ever Neuro Pharma GmbH

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hospital Universitario Dr. Jose E. Gonzalez

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Juan Fernando Góngora Rivera, MD, PhD

Dr.med. Juan Fernando Góngora Rivera

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Juan F Góngora-Rivera, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Universitario Dr. Jose E. Gonzalez

Locations

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Servicio de Neurología del Hospital Universitario "Dr.José E. González"

Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Mexico

Central Contacts

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Juan F Góngora-Rivera, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

+528115163257

Servicio de Neurología del Hospital Universitario "Dr.José E. González"

Role: CONTACT

+528183591111

Facility Contacts

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Servicio F de Neurología del Hospital Universitario "Dr.José E. González"

Role: primary

+528183591111

José C Becerra-Cruz, M.D.

Role: backup

+522324393970

Other Identifiers

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MI22-00013

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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