Active clinical trials for "Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases"

A Sub-Study of an investigator initiated and conducted, multicentre, international, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial (TRIDENT) to determine the effect of more intensive long-term blood pressure control, provided by a fixed low-dose combination blood pressure lowering pill ("Triple Pill") strategy on top of standard of care, for slowing memory decline as measured by Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), in patients with a history of acute stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH).

Previous studies in animals and humans has shown that brief periods of reduced blood flow to one organ or tissue in the body can help protect other tissues from subsequent injury caused by reduced blood flow such as a stroke. This phenomenon is known as remote ischemic preconditioning and may help protect brain cells after a stroke. The investigators are studying a specific stroke type called subcortical stroke that is very common and has a high rate of recurrent stroke and cognition problems despite intensive prevention measures.

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of atorvastatin treatment during 3 months (80mg/day) on cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) in lacunar patients.

In a double blind placebo-controlled cross-over study the effect of tadalafil on blood flow velocity in the large arteries of the brain, cortical brain oxygenation, peripheral endothelial function, and endothelial biomarkers will be tested in patients with lacunar stroke caused by cerebral small vessel disease.

The main objective of this research is to obtain biological markers of smooth muscle cells dysfunction or degeneration in cerebral small vessel diseases. The aim of this research is therefore to build up a biocollection of CSF and blood samples from 1) patients with CADASIL disease (the most common form of cSVD) responsible for an accumulation of the NOTCH3 protein in the microvessel wall, 2) patients with other forms of monogenic cSVD (rarer) which are not responsible for an accumulation of this protein despite the damage to the smooth muscle cells of the vessel wall and 3) control patients without cSVD, collected in the context of care. This bio-collection will allow the identification and assay of markers testifying to the damage of the smooth muscle cells (SMC) in different types of cSVD of hereditary origin, the first of which will be the soluble NOTCH3 protein.

This study aims to construct a registry platform for microcirculatory disorders in a large sample of Chinese patients with cerebral small vessel disease and ischemic stroke; To explore the role of microcirculatory disorders in different types of cerebral small vessel disease and iachemic stroke, as well as their pathogenesis, severity, and prognosis; And to research on the drug treatment of microcirculatory disorders for cerebral small vessel disease and stroke in the real world.

The hypothesis of this study is that remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) might have a beneficial effect on outcomes of cerebral small vessel disease (CSV).

TRIDENT Main Study: TRIDENT is a multicentre, international, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial of a fixed low-dose combination BP-lowering pill ("Triple Pill") strategy on top of standard of care, in patients with a history of acute intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels defined as 'high normal to borderline high', and on either minimal or no BP-lowering treatment according to current guidelines. MRI Sub-Study Centres capable of specific MRI of the brain sequences will be identified. The patients in the TRIDENT main study who are identified to be eligible for the MRI Sub-Study will undergo MRI scans at baseline (6 weeks to 6 months post-randomisation) and at 36-month follow-up time points. All data collected will be analysed centrally at the Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) in Sydney, Australia.

The purpose of this research study is to see if high-speed weight training performed in a circuit (using one machine after another) can improve participant heart and brain function, strength, and power in older persons.

Phase II pilot randomised, factorial, short term dose escalation, open label, blinded intermediary endpoint trial, in two hospital centres in the UK, of tolerability and safety of cilostazol, isosorbide mononitrate, both or neither in patients with small vessel disease manifest as symptomatic small subcortical stroke.