Active clinical trials for "Stroke"

The purpose of this study is to determine the possibility of gait pattern change via visual feedback among patients with stroke. Also, the optimal visual feedback would be chosen from this study.

The investigators expect to find higher levels of both classical and minor antiphospholipid (APL) antibodies among the stroke cases. Furthermore, the investigators expect to find not only classical APLA but also minor antibodies. The investigators believe that minor antibodies have a major role in the hypercoagulability state.

With the extension of the average life expectancy, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases is also rising. Stroke in Taiwan has been the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, but also in countries around the world), stroke and the impact of socio-economic and health spending are large how to reduce the degree of disability after stroke is an important issue in medicine. For a long time, the resident will fill the clinical pathway form before the stroke inpatients were discharged. We also analyzed the data of clinical pathway every three months. According to the current data of stroke clinical pathway included demographic data, length of hospitalization days, complications, functional independent measure, Brunnstrom motor recovery stage, mini-mental state examination, geriatric depression scale, blood pressure data, and post-stroke checklist for a retrospective analysis to provide more complete and more comprehensive information on follow-up care for stroke patients and effective use of medical resources, to improve the quality of future medical care and quality of life for stroke patients.

The last marketed thrombectomy devices, named stentretriever, permit a better and faster recanalization in patient with a stroke. The REVIVETM SE is a device designed to restore the brain perfusion in patient with an intracranial artery occlusion. The REVIVETM Se device is not widely use in Europe and in France. The objective of this study is to assess the interest of using this device in the standard care of ischemic stroke in the radiology unit of the hospital Pierre Wertheimer, Lyon. The medical care will not be modified but data will be collected in order to determine whether or not this device is useful for the practice of the radiology unit.

This is a multi-center registry study. The investigators will include 10,000 patients with confirmed acute ischemic stroke in China. The aim of the study is to survey current treatment situation in China and compare the effectiveness and safety between different intervention regimens.

SEDMAN study is a prospective multicenter investigator initiated study (IIS). The main idea is to look by Genome Wide Association (arrays that determine more than 1 million polymorphisms) genetic risk factors associated with response to dabigatran. To conduct the study, the goal is to recruit 300 patients with ischemic stroke with cardioembolic etiology treated with dabigatran and 200 treated with Acenocoumarol to determine if genetic risk factors are associated with the occurrence of any bleeding or vascular event in a year follow-up.

Stroke is a major cause of disabilities worldwide. Stroke survivors commonly exhibit walking defects which lead to an altered, slow speed and asymmetric gait pattern. The main aims of rehabilitation are to enhance recovery of movement control and regain walking ability. Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs), braces which encompass the foot and ankle joint extending to a point below the knee, are commonly prescribed to address ambulation impairments in stroke patients. Their main function is to support the foot and allow a subject to walk safely with a gait approaching normality. This project will aim to evaluate the early provision of AFOs as an adjunct to standard physiotherapy on the walking ability of stroke survivors. Usual rehabilitation practice will be the control condition. Participants will be recruited from the stroke unit of Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow. They will be randomised into two groups. Participants allocated in the control group will receive usual clinical practice as per routine for stroke patients. The intervention group will receive custom made solid AFOs as an adjunct. They will be provided with three AFOs, one for use during rehabilitation and two which will be used only during the outcome assessment sessions for research purposes. The intervention phase will last 24 weeks. Gait analysis will be performed three times for each participant (at baseline, 12 and 24 weeks after enrolment) in the biomechanical laboratory of Strathclyde University. During these sessions force and movement data of patients walking will be recorded. Fortnightly time and distance factors of gait will be measured and a battery of functional tasks will be performed in the physiotherapy gym of the hospital using a simple video camera and a grid lino-mat. During all assessments participants with an AFO will be asked to walk with and without the AFO provided.

The purpose of this research study is to learn how people distribute their visual attention when looking at objects nearby versus far away, and why vision may become distracted at near versus far distances.

The investigators have developed a simple prehospital stroke scale (FPSS), containing 5 dichotomized items to recognize both large and small artery thrombi of the brain. FPSS is implemented to both emergency medical services and later, to emergency response centers. The efficacy of the scale and possible improvement of both the patient flow and treatment results will be evaluated.

Patient Registration Study of Acute Ischemic Stroke/transient ischemic attack(TIA) With Atrial Fibrillation (AISWAF) is a single-center prospective, consecutively, observational study, was conducted in patients with acute ischemic stroke/TIA with atrial fibrillation. The aim of this study was to understand the stroke mechanism, the regularity of stroke recurrence and its influencing factors, to establish a risk stratification model for stroke recurrence, and to preliminarily explore the relationship between stroke mechanism, risk stratification and antithrombotic regimen in this population.