Short-duration Selective Brain Cooling for Patients Undergoing Mechanical Thrombectomy
Hypothermia, Stroke, Acute
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hypothermia focused on measuring mechanical thrombectomy, selective brain cooling
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acute ischemic stroke within 6 hours from symptom onset/last seen well.
- Occlusion (TIMI 0-1) of the basilar artery or distal intracranial carotid artery or middle (M1/M2) or anterior (A1/A2) cerebral artery as evidenced by CTA/MRA/DSA.
- Age ≥18 and ≤80
- No significant pre-stroke functional disability (mRS ≤ 1)
- The possibility to start treatment within 6 hours from onset.
- Informed consent given
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known hemorrhagic diathesis, coagulation factor deficiency, or oral anticoagulant therapy with INR > 3.0
- Baseline platelet count < 50.000/µL
- Baseline blood glucose of < 50mg/dL or >400mg/dl
- Severe, sustained hypertension (SBP > 220 mm Hg or DBP > 110 mm Hg) NOTE: If the blood pressure can be successfully reduced and maintained below these levels using commonly used medications in China for these purposes (including iv antihypertensive drips), the patient can be enrolled.
- Serious, advanced, or terminal illness with anticipated life expectancy of less than one year.
- History of life threatening allergy (more than rash) to contrast medium
- Subjects who has received iv t-PA treatment beyond 4.5 hours from the beginning of the symptoms.
- Patients with acute stroke within the first 48 hours after percutaneous cardiac, cerebrovascular interventions and major surgery
- Renal insufficiency with creatinine ≥ 3 mg/dl
- Woman of childbearing potential who is known to be pregnant or lactating or who has a positive pregnancy test on admission.
- Subject participating in a study involving an investigational drug or device that would impact this study.
- Cerebral vasculitis
- Patients with a pre-existing neurological or psychiatric disease that would confound the neurological or functional evaluations, mRS score at baseline must be ≤ 1, which includes patients who are severely demented, require constant assistance in a nursing home type setting or who live at home but are not fully independent in activities of daily living (toileting, dressing, eating, cooking and preparing meals, etc.)
- Unlikely to be available for 90 days follow-up (e.g. no fixed home address, visitor from overseas).
- CT or MR evidence of hemorrhage (the presence of microbleeds on MRI is allowed).
Sites / Locations
- Xuan Wu Hospital,Capital Medical University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
mechanical thrombectomy group
mechanical thrombectomy plus selective brain cooling group
Conventional mechanical thrombectomy
A microcatheter which was used to deploy the stent retriever was threaded into the femoral artery in the groin through a guiding catheter and up through the neck, until it reached beyond the clot causing the stroke under the assistance of micro-guide wire, 50 mL cold 0.9% saline (4°C) was infused into the ischemic territory at 10 mL/min through the microcatheter, thus allowing the cold solution to infuse into the ischemic territory prior to reperfusion. After that, mechanical thrombectomy with a stent retriever was performed to recanalize the occluded vessel as soon as possible. After the recanalization, cold 0.9% saline (4°C) was infused into the ischemic brain tissue through the guide catheter at 30 mL/min for 10 minutes.