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TerminatedNCT01059149

Safety and Long-term Effectiveness of High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Stroke (RAICup)

Safety and Long-term Effectiveness of High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at the Subacute Phase of Ischaemic Stroke

Status
Terminated
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2 (actual)
Sponsor
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to determine if 2-week repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation at the subacute phase of stroke (between day 7 and day 14) improves significantly arm motility at 3 months with remaining effect at one year, without significant adverse effect.

Detailed description

Stroke survivors may be left with disability involving speech or residual arm or leg weakness. Despite spontaneous improvement on the weeks following stroke, the importance of final disability is unpredictable. If the core of the infarct is represented by dead neurons, the neurons from adjacent areas seem to be staggered and their lack of excitability has been correlated to a bad prognosis. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) seems to be a promising technique since high frequency rTMS can increase excitability of the targeted neurons. The aim of the study is to evaluate after 2 weeks of 20 min of rTMS each day: 1) the improvement of arm function and neurological and disability scales, immediately after the 2-week session, at one month, 3 months and evaluate the remnant effect at 12 months, 2) to correlate these scales to physiological parameters in order to assess the clinical modifications to the electrophysiological modifications, 3) to assert the safety of high frequency rTMS at the subacute phase of ischaemic stroke.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICErepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationMagPro x100 (MagVenture A/S, DANEMARK)

Timeline

Start date
2010-11-01
Primary completion
2011-12-01
Completion
2011-12-01
First posted
2010-01-29
Last updated
2015-01-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01059149. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.