Treatment of Acute Ischemic STroke With Edaravone Dexborneol II (TASTE-2)

Summary

This study is a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo parallel controlled, investigator-sponsored study that aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of Edaravone Dexborneol treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke who had received early reperfusion therapy.

Timeline

Start

2022-03-18

Primary completion

2023-02-17

Completion

2023-05-19

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper risk ratio 1.11, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.00 to 1.23; P=0.05 PMID 41500725 ↗

Publications

• Background Hill MD, Goyal M, Menon BK, Nogueira RG, McTaggart RA, Demchuk AM, Poppe AY, Buck BH, Field TS, Dowlatshahi D, van Adel BA, Swartz RH, Shah RA, Sauvageau E, Zerna C, Ospel JM, Joshi M, Almekhlafi MA, Ryckborst KJ, Lowerison MW, Heard K, Garman D, Haussen D, Cutting SM, Coutts SB, Roy D, Rempel JL, Rohr AC, Iancu D, Sahlas DJ, Yu AYX, Devlin TG, Hanel RA, Puetz V, Silver FL, Campbell BCV, Chapot R, Teitelbaum J, Mandzia JL, Kleinig TJ, Turkel-Parrella D, Heck D, Kelly ME, Bharatha A, Bang OY, Jadhav A, Gupta R, Frei DF, Tarpley JW, McDougall CG, Holmin S, Rha JH, Puri AS, Camden MC, Thomalla G, Choe H, Phillips SJ, Schindler JL, Thornton J, Nagel S, Heo JH, Sohn SI, Psychogios MN, Budzik RF, Starkman S, Martin CO, Burns PA, Murphy S, Lopez GA, English J, Tymianski M; ESCAPE-NA1 Investigators. Efficacy and safety of nerinetide for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke (ESCAPE-NA1): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2020 Mar 14;395(10227):878-887. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30258-0. Epub 2020 Feb 20.
• Background Xu J, Wang A, Meng X, Yalkun G, Xu A, Gao Z, Chen H, Ji Y, Xu J, Geng D, Zhu R, Liu B, Dong A, Mu H, Lu Z, Li S, Zheng H, Chen X, Wang Y, Zhao X, Wang Y; TASTE Trial Investigatorsdagger. Edaravone Dexborneol Versus Edaravone Alone for the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Comparative Trial. Stroke. 2021 Mar;52(3):772-780. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031197. Epub 2021 Feb 16.
• Wang C, Gu H, Huo X, Yuan B, Li S, Xu J, Jiang Y, Jing J, Yao X, Li Z, Long F, Ma Z, Zhuang X, Xu L, Jin Y, Huang W, Zhang Y, Wen J, Wang A, Pan Y, Ye W, Yu W, Cheng A, Wang M, Dong Q, Xu A, Wang N, Yang Y, Meng X, Liu L, Zhao X, Li H, Miao Z, Li Z, Wang Y; TASTE-2 investigators. Edaravone dexborneol versus placebo on functional outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke undergoing endovascular thrombectomy (TASTE-2): randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2026 Jan 7;392:e086850. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086850.

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