Intravenous Thrombolysis Plus Hypothermia for Acute Treatment of Ischemic Stroke

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to evaluate if it is safe to use tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) within 6 hours of stroke onset when combined with hypothermia.

Timeline

Start

2003-10

Primary completion

2008-10

Completion

2009-05

Publications

• Background Lyden PD, Allgren RL, Ng K, Akins P, Meyer B, Al-Sanani F, Lutsep H, Dobak J, Matsubara BS, Zivin J. Intravascular Cooling in the Treatment of Stroke (ICTuS): early clinical experience. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2005 May-Jun;14(3):107-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2005.01.001.
• Background Guluma KZ, Hemmen TM, Olsen SE, Rapp KS, Lyden PD. A trial of therapeutic hypothermia via endovascular approach in awake patients with acute ischemic stroke: methodology. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Aug;13(8):820-7. doi: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.03.559. Epub 2006 Jun 9.
• Background Hemmen TM, Raman R, Guluma KZ, Meyer BC, Gomes JA, Cruz-Flores S, Wijman CA, Rapp KS, Grotta JC, Lyden PD; ICTuS-L Investigators. Intravenous thrombolysis plus hypothermia for acute treatment of ischemic stroke (ICTuS-L): final results. Stroke. 2010 Oct;41(10):2265-70. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.592295. Epub 2010 Aug 19.
• Background Hemmen TM, Lyden PD. Induced hypothermia for acute stroke. Stroke. 2007 Feb;38(2 Suppl):794-9. doi: 10.1161/01.STR.0000247920.15708.fa.

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