"Spot Sign" Selection of Intracerebral Hemorrhage to Guide Hemostatic Therapy

Summary

This clinical trial will enroll 110 patients from approximately 15 Canadian stroke centres. Patients coming to the emergency department with bleeding in the brain not due to trauma or other known causes who can be treated within 6 hours of onset will undergo CT angiography using standard CT scanners ("CAT scan"). Those with a "spot sign", a type of marker on the CT scan that shows the brain is still bleeding, will be randomly assigned to a single injection of "factor 7"(a blood clotting drug used in hemophilia) or placebo (inactive saline); patients without a spot sign will not be treated. The researchers will look at how much bleeding happens after the treatments are administered, as well as clinical outcomes such as death and disability. The researchers think that factor 7 will cause the bleeding to stop faster and possibly decrease death and disability.

Timeline

Start

2011-05

Primary completion

2018-06-30

Completion

2018-10-03

Publications

• Al-Ajlan FS, Gladstone DJ, Song D, Thorpe KE, Swartz RH, Butcher KS, Del Campo M, Dowlatshahi D, Gensicke H, Lee GJ, Flaherty ML, Hill MD, Aviv RI, Demchuk AM; SPOTLIGHT Investigators. Time Course of Early Hematoma Expansion in Acute Spot-Sign Positive Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Prespecified Analysis of the SPOTLIGHT Randomized Clinical Trial. Stroke. 2023 Mar;54(3):715-721. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.038475. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
• Gladstone DJ, Aviv RI, Demchuk AM, Hill MD, Thorpe KE, Khoury JC, Sucharew HJ, Al-Ajlan F, Butcher K, Dowlatshahi D, Gubitz G, De Masi S, Hall J, Gregg D, Mamdani M, Shamy M, Swartz RH, Del Campo CM, Cucchiara B, Panagos P, Goldstein JN, Carrozzella J, Jauch EC, Broderick JP, Flaherty ML; SPOTLIGHT and STOP-IT Investigators and Coordinators. Effect of Recombinant Activated Coagulation Factor VII on Hemorrhage Expansion Among Patients With Spot Sign-Positive Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The SPOTLIGHT and STOP-IT Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Neurol. 2019 Dec 1;76(12):1493-1501. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.2636.

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