In recent years, the positive results of trials for mechanical thrombectomy (MT) have brought a new era for large artery occlusion patients, especially those beyond the time window of intravenous thrombolysis. However, interventional procedures can cause endothelial injuries leading to local activation of platelet aggregation and subsequent thromboembolic complications or early re-occlusion.Tirofiban is a specific antagonist of the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor, which is considered highly effective against the final common pathway of platelet aggregation and preventing vascular reocclusion. However, there is no consensus on if AIS patients treated with MT also benefit from intravenous tirofiban. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of profiles of tirofiban during MT and provide reliable clinical evidence for the treatment of tirofiban in AIS patients.
This study is a multicenter, prospective, open-label, randomized controlled, blinded-endpoint trial with two parallel groups and a 3-month follow-up. A total of 200 eligible participants recruited from 4-6 stroke centers will be randomly allocated to either an experimental group (intravenous tirofiban + MT therapy) or a control group (MT alone) in a 1:1 ratio. The primary outcome is a composite endpoint, including the rate of recanalisation after the first embolectomy and the risk of symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage. The secondary outcomes include clinical and neuroimaging outcomes, procedure-related complications, and adverse events to evaluate the effects of MT in combination with tirofiban treatment compared to MT alone in AIS patients. Intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis will be undertaken in this study, and the full analysis set (FAS) population serves as the primary population for the analysis of efficacy data.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
200
Patients will enter the tirofiban treatment protocol immediately within half an hour after randomization and prior to the femoral artery puncture. Tirofiban is administered as an intravenous bolus dose of 10 μg/kg injection within 3 min and then by an intravenous infusion at a rate of 0.1 μg/(kg·min) for 24 hours.
Gang Li
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
Composite rates of target vessel revascularization and no symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage
Target vessel revascularization is defined as a modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction (mTICI) grade after onepass thrombectomy procedure over grade 2b. Symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage is defined according to per Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke-Monitoring Study (SITS-MOST) criteria.
Time frame: 24-72hours after thrombectomy;
Recanalisation rates of the target vessel
Neuroimaging outcomes
Time frame: 24-72 hours after thrombectomy;
Dichotomized mRS score/ ordinal mRS score
Functional prognosis of the patient,clinical outcomes
Time frame: The 90-day after randomisation
Symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage
procedure-related complications and adverse events
Time frame: By the end of the 90-day follow-up
Death
procedure-related complications and adverse events
Time frame: By the end of the 90-day follow-up
The number of thrombectomy times
Treatment information
Time frame: By the end of the 90-day follow-up
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