Remote Ischemic Perconditioning as an Adjunct Therapy to Thrombolysis in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Trial [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—
Although the overall results were neutral, a tissue survival analysis suggests that prehospital rPerC may have immediate neuroprotective effects. Future clinical trials should take such immediate effects, and their duration, into account.

Clinical Trial Registration—
URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00975962.

Source: Stroke - December 23, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Hougaard, K. D., Hjort, N., Zeidler, D., Sorensen, L., Norgaard, A., Hansen, T. M., von Weitzel-Mudersbach, P., Simonsen, C. Z., Damgaard, D., Gottrup, H., Svendsen, K., Rasmussen, P. V., Ribe, L. R., Mikkelsen, I. K., Nagenthiraja, K., Cho, T.-H., Reding Tags: Emergency treatment of Stroke, Computerized tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuroprotectors, Thrombolysis Clinical Sciences Source Type: research