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1. Circulating Blood-Brain Barrier Proteins for Differentiating Ischaemic Stroke Patients from Stroke Mimics

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Pragati Kakkar, Meaad Almusined, Tarun Kakkar, Theresa Munyombwe, Linetty Makawa, Kirti Kain, Ahamad Hassan, and Sikha Saha

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ischaemic stroke, blood-brain barrier, NIHSS, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, biomarker, Microbiology, QR1-502
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Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. The diagnosis of stroke remains largely clinical, yet widely used stroke scoring systems and brain imaging do not satisfactorily allow the distinction of ischaemic stroke (IS) patients from stroke mimics (SMs). Blood biomarkers are promising tools that could facilitate clinical triage. Methods: This study recruited 66 patients with IS and 24 SMs. The levels of Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), Neuron-specific enolase (NSE), Neurofilament light chain (NfL) and blood-brain barrier (BBB) proteins [Occludin (OCLN), Zonula occludens 1 (ZO-1), Claudin-5] in blood serum were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique. Biomarker levels in IS patients and SMs were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of biomarkers in combination with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score. Results: More significant differences in circulating GFAP, NfL, OCLN, ZO-1, and Claudin-5 but not NSE were found in IS patients compared to SMs. A combination of circulating ZO-1, Claudin-5, and OCLN with NIHSS score gives the highest diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. Conclusions: A prediction model with circulating BBB proteins in combination with NIHSS score differentiates between IS patients and SMs.

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2024
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2. Cost-effectiveness of craniotomy versus decompressive craniectomy for UK patients with traumatic acute subdural haematoma

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Emma Toman, David K Menon, Antonio Belli, Sridevi Nagarajan, Julie Woodfield, Ruichong Ma, Jason J Chang, Jonathan Cook, Mark Kotter, Vin Shen Ban, Martin Smith, John D Pickard, Diederik Bulters, Giles Critchley, Damian Holliman, Nicole Keong, Andrew King, Catherine McMahon, Carole Turner, Peter Whitfield, Mark Wilson, Melvin Stone, Paul Brennan, David Turner, Garry Barton, Rasheed Zakaria, Angelos G Kolias, Simon Shaw, Sean Christie, Dmitri Shastin, Allison Hirst, Soumya Mukherjee, Gareth Roberts, Simon Thomson, Peter J Hutchinson, Alexis Joannides, Emanuel Cirstea, Ashish Bindra, Vairavan Narayanan, David Menon, Francesca Hill, Ashwin Kumaria, Franco Servadei, Rhys Thomas, Midhun Mohan, Silvia Tarantino, Ioana Moldovan, Sara Venturini, Tariq Khan, Marianne Hare, Louise Young, Joan Grieve, Ardalan Zolnourian, Paula Carroll, Diederik Oliver Bulters, Mathew Guilfoyle, Lisa Julien, Barbara Gregson, Martin Hunn, Richard Nelson, Stuart Smith, Shahid Khan, András Büki, Deepak Gupta, Christos Tolias, David A Turner, Christopher Madden, Paul Johnston, Peter John Hutchinson, Patrick Holton, Panagiota Gkolia, Nicola Owen, Kesava Reddy, Hani Marcus, Ibrahim Jalloh, Shabin Joshi, Ian Anderson, Himanshu Shekhar, Daniel Holsgrove, Erin Lewis, Tracey Moore, Marios C Papadopoulos, Paula Kareclas, Peter Kirkpatrick, Laura Parker, Martina Stippler, Sarah Pyne, Peter J Kirkpatrick, James Piercy, Neil Davidson, Prasanna Epaliyanage, Barbara A Gregson, Christopher Uff, Malik Zaben, Charlotte Eglinton, Linetty Makawa, Jane Perez, Louise Harrison, Mutwakil Abdulla, Garry R Barton, Mathew Joseph, Anthony Bell, Sarah Trippier, Michael Canty, Jonathan Pollock, Manjul Tripathi, Harry Mee, Ivan Timofeev, Ellie Edlmann, Nadia Scantlebury, Joseph Frantzias, Yahia Al-Tamimi, Kismet Hossain-Ibrahim, Ciaran Hill, Elisa Visentin, Sonia Raj, Ioannis Fouyas, Siobhan Kearney, Karen Caldwell, Tamara Tajsic, Belinda Gunning, Emma Clarkson, Manjunath Prasad, Mary Kambafwile, Tim Lawrence, Emily Galea, Sebastian Ille, Hadie Adams, Shumaila Hasan, Matthew G Stovell, Edoardo Viaroli, Adel E Helmy, Ivan S Timofeev, Kirsty Grieve, Liz Corteen, Janet Corn, Mohammad Naushahi, Richard Mair, Kamila Walker, Selma Tülü, Chipo Chitsenega, Geetha Boyapati, Muhammad Bhatti, Natalia Ermalai, Joseph Merola Liudmila, Laurence Glanz, Lani Patterson, Colin Bergin, Maximina Ventura, Laura Ortiz-Ruiz de Gordoa, Husam Georges, Sam Jeffrey, Natasha Wilmhurst, Philip Kane, Geraint Sunderland, John Kitchen, Mathew JosephMathew JosephGallagher, Sonia Fernandez Lopez, Andrea D’Mello, Jo-Anna Conyngham, Miriam Taylor, Charlaine Reeve, Vasileios Arzoglou, Arif Zafar, Efosa Ukponmwan, Anastasios Giamouriadis, Adam Wahba, Patrick Easton, Rose Clegg, Grace Cole, Louise Finlay, Alex Leggate, Terrie-Louise Cromie, Javier Magan Ventura, Ruth Womer, Beverley Fulkner, Geraldine Ward, Kareen Damley, Emma Fleming, Roddy O’Kane, Indira Devi Bhagavatula, Dhananjaya Ishwar Bhat, Dhaval Prem Shukla, Kanti Konar, Nagesh Shanhag, Vaishali Nl Valluri, Manoj Kumar Tewari, Kaveri Sharma, Christine Lock, Chen Min Wei, Julian Han, Janell Kwok, Nicolas Kon, Kam King, Emmalin Nelton, Louis Anthony Whitworth, Sonja Stutzman, Caryn Harper, Alice Salazar, Rocco Armonda, George B Moses, Patricia Tanjucto, Jamie Ullman, Orseola Arapi, Betsy Moclair, Nrupen Baxi, John Adair Prall, Meghan Baldwin, Jamie Jones, Clare Gallagher, Ish Bains, Leodante Da Costa, Fahad Alkherayf, Rafael Ochoa Sanchez, Kostas Fountas, Thanasis Paschalis, Sandro Krieg, Maria Luisa, Gandia Gomez, Alfonso Legares, Ana Maria Castaño Leon, Gábor Lenzsér, Mukhtar Khan, Massimo Tomei, Ronie Romelean Jayapalan, Sarah C Pyne, A David Mendelow, Christopher Cowie, Carol Davis-Wilkie, Tapiwa Tungamirai, Kerstin Wolf, Natalia Igosheva, Alicia Gore, Michele Jillings, Christopher Bushell, and Peter McCabe

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Medicine
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Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of craniotomy, compared with decompressive craniectomy (DC) in UK patients undergoing evacuation of acute subdural haematoma (ASDH).Design Economic evaluation undertaken using health resource use and outcome data from the 12-month multicentre, pragmatic, parallel-group, randomised, Randomised Evaluation of Surgery with Craniectomy for Patients Undergoing Evacuation-ASDH trial.Setting UK secondary care.Participants 248 UK patients undergoing surgery for traumatic ASDH were randomised to craniotomy (N=126) or DC (N=122).Interventions Surgical evacuation via craniotomy (bone flap replaced) or DC (bone flap left out with a view to replace later: cranioplasty surgery).Main outcome measures In the base-case analysis, costs were estimated from a National Health Service and Personal Social Services perspective. Outcomes were assessed via the quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) derived from the EuroQoL 5-Dimension 5-Level questionnaire (cost-utility analysis) and the Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOSE) (cost-effectiveness analysis). Multiple imputation and regression analyses were conducted to estimate the mean incremental cost and effect of craniotomy compared with DC. The most cost-effective option was selected, irrespective of the level of statistical significance as is argued by economists.Results In the cost-utility analysis, the mean incremental cost of craniotomy compared with DC was estimated to be −£5520 (95% CI −£18 060 to £7020) with a mean QALY gain of 0.093 (95% CI 0.029 to 0.156). In the cost-effectiveness analysis, the mean incremental cost was estimated to be −£4536 (95% CI −£17 374 to £8301) with an OR of 1.682 (95% CI 0.995 to 2.842) for a favourable outcome on the GOSE.Conclusions In a UK population with traumatic ASDH, craniotomy was estimated to be cost-effective compared with DC: craniotomy was estimated to have a lower mean cost, higher mean QALY gain and higher probability of a more favourable outcome on the GOSE (though not all estimated differences between the two approaches were statistically significant).Ethics Ethical approval for the trial was obtained from the North West—Haydock Research Ethics Committee in the UK on 17 July 2014 (14/NW/1076).Trial registration number ISRCTN87370545.

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2024
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3. Feasibility of comparing medical management and surgery (with neurosurgery or stereotactic radiosurgery) with medical management alone in people with symptomatic brain cavernoma – protocol for the Cavernomas: A Randomised Effectiveness (CARE) pilot trial

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Khalid Hamandi, Julie Woodfield, Smriti Agarwal, Richard Edwards, John Williamson, Ravindran Visagan, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Howard Brydon, Diederik Bulters, Dawn Hennigan, Paul Leach, Conor Mallucci, Nitin Mukerji, Marios Papadopoulos, Nicholas Ross, Martin Tisdall, Carole Turner, Shungu Ushewokunze, Raghu Vindlacheruvu, Paul Brennan, Phil White, Sophie Hunter, Karen Coy, Julia Wade, James Stewart, Tom Hughes, Laura Forsyth, Kirsty Harkness, David White, Rupal Shah, Sanjay Bhate, Neil Kitchen, Peter J Hutchinson, Emanuel Cirstea, Ramesh Nair, Rebecca Hall, Varduhi Cahill, Tom Hayton, Silvia Tarantino, Christin Eltze, Jack Lee, Arlo Whitehouse, Daniel Walsh, Jacqueline Stephen, Nicola Phillips, Steff Lewis, Susan Davies, Mathew Guilfoyle, Peter S Hall, Andrew Stoddart, Francesca Colombo, Emma Richards, Greg James, Sarah Illingworth, William B Lo, Andrew Bacon, Vijeya Ganesan, Sabina Patel, Aileen R Neilson, Felicia Jennings, Saba Raza-Knight, Andrew Brodbelt, Aswin Chari, Hasan Asif, Ian Kamaly-Asl, Milan Makwana, Zubair Tahir, Allan MacRaild, Grace Vassallo, Ian Anderson, Daniel Holsgrove, Carole Chambers, Sandra Williams, Francesca Spickett-Jones, Marios C Papadopoulos, John Preston, Edward White, Adel Helmy, Sarah Ali, John Reid, Daniel Brown, Louis Taylor, Christopher Uff, Patrick Grover, Azra Banaras, Linetty Makawa, Anil Israni, Richard J Edwards, William Muirhead, Daniel Brooks, Debbie Brown, Ciaran Scott Hill, Kerry Smith, Beth Atkinson, Michelle Fawcett, Sifelani Tshuma, Oliver Kennion, Jo Howe, James J M Loan, Philip Clatworthy, Claire Hudson, Rebecca Hodnett, Madalina Roman, Mary Sikaonga, Elaine Kinsella, Mario Teo, Venetia Giannakaki, James Loan, Lauren Harris, Jack Wildman, Emmanuel Chavredakis, Nihal Gurusinghe, Alex Rossdeutsch, Anthony Wiggins, Giannis Sokratous, Lucie Ferguson, Shakeelah Patel, Sonia Raj, Oishik Raha, Janneke van Beijnum, Pragnesh Bhatt, Anna Bjornson, Nicole Broomes, Alistair Bullen, Julian Cahill, Mihai Danciut, Ronneil Digpal, Ioannis Fouyas, Lauren S Harris, Sohail Majeed, Matthias Radatz, Oliver Wroe Wright, Jessica Teasdale, Michelle Coakley, Drahoslav Sokol, Chandru Kaliaperumal, Mairi MacDonald, Sarah Risbridger, Siobhan Kearney, Ellaine Bosetta, Thomas Doke, Sonny Coskuner, Christine Kamara, Jonathan Gardner, Imron Hamina, Kishor Chaudhari, Liliana Chapas, Karen Caldwell, Sarah Holland, Tamara Tajsic, Rachael Dore, Taya Anderson, Shelley Mayor, Laura O'Malley, Samantha Glover, Janice Irvine, Annika Walch, Farah Muir, Eng Tah Goh, Andrew McDarby, Michelle Bates, Rebecca Hancox, Claudia Kate Auyeung, Elizabeth Goff, Deanna Stephens, Borislava Borislavova, Ruth Worner, Sandeep Buddha, Lisa Tucker, Sandra Dymond, Andrew Mallick, Dymona McAleer, Belinda Gunning, Emma Clarkson, Cathy Stoneley, Jibril Osman Farah, Niamh Bohnacker, Rosette Marimon, Lydia Parker, Puneet Sharma, Dan Holsgrove, Danielle McLaughlan, Tracey Marsden, Kathryn Cawley, Hellen Raffalli, Imedla Mayor, Dipek Ram, Rebecca Keeping, Katie Hennessy, Ammar Kadhim, Md Moidul Islam, Manjunath Prasad, Cheryl Webster, Vicky Slater, Saffnan Mohamed, Saba Raza Knight, Terri-Louise Cromie, Allan Brown, Ruth Pennington, Charlene Campbell, Anthony Ghosh, Teresa Fitzpatrick, Mohammed Patel, Winnington Ruiz, Mirriam Taylor, Divina Anyog, Katarzyna Tluchowska, Jackson Nolasco, Kleopatra Angelopoulou, Bethany Welch, Ida Ponce, Lucy Bailey, Mia Marsden, Angelene Cope, Deepthy Blesson, Rachel Sutton, Mary Kambafwile, and Jade McAndrew

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Medicine
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Introduction The top research priority for cavernoma, identified by a James Lind Alliance Priority setting partnership was ‘Does treatment (with neurosurgery or stereotactic radiosurgery) or no treatment improve outcome for people diagnosed with a cavernoma?’ This pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to determine the feasibility of answering this question in a main phase RCT.Methods and analysis We will perform a pilot phase, parallel group, pragmatic RCT involving approximately 60 children or adults with mental capacity, resident in the UK or Ireland, with an unresected symptomatic brain cavernoma. Participants will be randomised by web-based randomisation 1:1 to treatment with medical management and with surgery (neurosurgery or stereotactic radiosurgery) versus medical management alone, stratified by prerandomisation preference for type of surgery. In addition to 13 feasibility outcomes, the primary clinical outcome is symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage or new persistent/progressive focal neurological deficit measured at 6 monthly intervals. An integrated QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI) evaluates screening logs, audio recordings of recruitment discussions, and interviews with recruiters and patients/parents/carers to identify and address barriers to participation. A Patient Advisory Group has codesigned the study and will oversee its progress.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the Yorkshire and The Humber—Leeds East Research Ethics Committee (21/YH/0046). We will submit manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals, describing the findings of the QRI and the Cavernomas: A Randomised Evaluation (CARE) pilot trial. We will present at national specialty meetings. We will disseminate a plain English summary of the findings of the CARE pilot trial to participants and public audiences with input from, and acknowledgement of, the Patient Advisory Group.Trial registration number ISRCTN41647111.

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2023
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4. Effects of antiplatelet therapy on stroke risk by brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases: subgroup analyses of the RESTART randomised, open-label trial

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Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, David P Minks, Dipayan Mitra, Mark A Rodrigues, Priya Bhatnagar, Johann C du Plessis, Yogish Joshi, Martin S Dennis, Gordon D Murray, David E Newby, Peter A G Sandercock, Nikola Sprigg, Jacqueline Stephen, Cathie L M Sudlow, David J Werring, William N Whiteley, Joanna M Wardlaw, Philip M White, Colin Baigent, Daniel Lasserson, Frank Sullivan, Johanna Carrie, Javier Rojas, Shannon Amoils, John Bamford, Jane Armitage, Gabriel Rinkel, Gordon Lowe, Jonathan Emberson, Karen Innes, Lynn Dinsmore, Jonathan Drever, Carol Williams, David Perry, Connor McGill, David Buchanan, Allan Walker, Aidan Hutchison, Christopher Matthews, Ruth Fraser, Aileen McGrath, Ann Deary, Rosemary Anderson, Pauli Walker, Christian Hansen, Richard Parker, Aryelly Rodriguez, Malcolm Macleod, Thomas Gattringer, Jeb Palmer, Eleni Sakka, Jennifer Adil-Smith, David Minks, Johannes du Plessis, Christine Lerpiniere, Richard O'Brien, Seona Burgess, Gillian Mead, Ruth Paulton, Fergus Doubal, Katrina McCormick, Neil Hunter, Pat Taylor, Ruwan Parakramawansha, Jack Perry, Gordon Blair, Allan MacRaild, Adrian Parry-Jones, Mary Johnes, Stephanie Lee, Kelly Marie Shaw, Ilse Burger, Martin Punter, Andrea Ingham, Jane Perez, Zin Naing, Jordi Morell, Tracy Marsden, Andrea Hall, Sally Marshall, Louise Harrison, Rowilson Jarapa, Edith Wood, Victoria O'Loughlin, David Cohen, Silvie Davies, Kelechi Njoku, Mushiya Mpelembue, Laura Burgess, Radim Licenik, Mmua Ngwako, Nabeela Nisar, Rangah Niranchanan, Tatjana Roganova, Rajaram Bathula, Joseph Devine, Anette David, Anne Oshodi, Fenglin Guo, Emmanuelle Owoyele, Varthi Sukdeo, Robert Ballantine, Mudhar Abbdul-saheb, Angela Chamberlain, Aberami Chandrakumar, Philip Poku, Kirsty Harkness, Catrin Blank, Emma Richards, Ali Ali, Faith Kibutu, Olesia Balitska, Kathryn Birchall, Pauline Bayliss, Clare Doyle, Kathy Stocks, Arshad Majis, Jo Howe, Christine Kamara, Luke Barron, Ahmad Maatouk, Ralf Lindert, Katy Dakin, Jessica Redgrave, Biju Bhaskaran, Isam Salih, Debs Kelly, Susan Szabo, Dawn Tomlin, Helen Bearne, Jean Buxton, Pauline Fitzell, Georgina Ayres, Afaq Saulat, Kathleen Horan, Joanne Garfield-Smith, Harbens Bhakri, Paul Guyler, Devesh Sinha, Thayalini Loganathan, Amber Siddiqui, Anwer Siddiqui, Lucy Coward, Swapna Kunhunny, Sharon Tysoe, Rajalakshmi Orath Prabakaran, Shyam Kelavkar, Sindhu Rashmi, David Ngo, Kheng Xiong Ng, Nisha Menon, Sweni Shah, Mark Barber, Derek Esson, Fiona Brodie, Talat Anjum, Mushtaq Wani, Manju Krishnan, Leanne Quinn, Jayne Spencer, Terry Jones, Helen Thompson-Jones, Lynne Dacey, Srikanth Chenna, Sharon Storton, Sarah Thomas, Teresa Beaty, Shelley Treadwell, Caroline Davies, Susan Tucker, Lynda Connor, Peter Slade, Glyn Gainard, Girish Muddegowda, Ranjan Sanyal, Alda Remegoso, Nenette Abano, Chelsea Causley, Racquel Carpio, Stephanie Stevens, Adrian Butler, Resti Varquez, Hayley Denic, Francis Alipio, Andrew Moores, Adrian Barry, Holly Maguire, Jeanette Grocott, Kay Finney, Sue Lyjko, Christine Roffe, Joanne Hiden, Phillip Ferdinand, Vera Cvoro, Khalil Ullah, Nicola Chapman, Mandy Couser, Susan Pound, Sean Mcauley, Senthil Raghunathan, Faye Shelton, Amanda Hedstrom, Margi Godfrey, Diane Havard, Amanda Buck, Kailash Krishnan, Nicola Gilzeane, Jack Roffe, Judith Clarke, Katherine Whittamore, Saima Sheikh, Rekha Keshvara, Carla Jordan, Benjamin Jackson, Gwendoline Wilkes, Jason Appleton, Zhe Law, Oliver Matias, Evangelos Vasileiadis, Cathy Mason, Anthea Parry, Geraldine Landers, Melinda Holden, Basaam Aweid, Khalid Rashed, Linda Balian, Carinna Vickers, Elizabeth Keeling, Sarah Board, Joanna Allison, Clare Buckley, Barbara Williams-Yesson, Joanne Board, Tressy Pitt-Kerby, Alfonso Tanate, Diane Wood, Manohar Kini, Dinesh Chadha, Deborah Walstow, Rosanna Fong, Robert Luder, Tolu Adesina, Jill Gallagher, Hayley Bridger, Elodie Murali, Maneesh Bhargava, Chloe van Someren, Frances Harrington, Abhijit Mate, Ali James, Gillian Courtauld, Christine Schofield, Katja Adie, Linda Lucas, Kirsty Bond, Bev Maund, Sam Ellis, Paul Mudd, Martin James, Samantha Keenan, Angela Bowring, Julie Cageao, Hayley Kingwell, Caroline Roughan, Anthony Hemsley, Jane Sword, David Strain, Keniesha Miller, Anita Goff, Karin Gupwell, Kevin Thorpe, Hedley Emsley, Shuja Punekar, Alison McLoughlin, Sulaiman Sultan, Bindu Gregory, Sonia Raj, Donna Doyle, Keith Muir, Wilma Smith, Angela Welch, Fiona Moreton, Bharath Kumar Cheripelli, Salwa El Tawil, Dheeraj Kalladka, Xuya Huang, Nicola Day, Sankaranarayanan Ramachandran, Caroline Crosbie, Jennifer Elliot, Tony Rudd, Katherine Marks, Ajay Bhalla, Jonathan Birns, Sagal Kullane, Nic Weir, Christopher Allen, Vanessa Pressly, Pam Crawford, Emma Battersby-Wood, Alex Blades, Shuna Egerton, Ashleigh Walters, Sue Evans, James Richard Marigold, Fiona Smith, Gabriella Howard, Imogen Gartrell, Simon Smith, Robyn Creeden, Chloe Cox, Cherish Boxall, Jonathan Hewitt, Claire Nott, Procter Sarah, Jessica Whiteman, Steve Buckle, Rebecca Wallace, Rina Mardania, Jane Gray, Claire Triscott, Anand Nair, Jill Greig, Pratap Rana, Matthew Robinson, Mohammad Irfan Alam, David Werring, Duncan Wilson, Caroline Watchurst, Maria Brezitski, Luci Crook, Ifan Jones, Azra Banaras, Krishna Patel, Renuka Erande, Caroline Hogan, Isabel Hostettler, Amy Ashton, Shez Feerick, Nina Francia, Nnebuife Oji, Emma Elliott, Talal Al-Mayhani, Martin Dennis, Cathie Sudlow, William Whiteley, Dipankar Dutta, Pauline Brown, Deborah Ward, Fiona Davis, Jennifer Turfrey, Chloe Hughes, Kayleigh Collins, Rehana Bakawala, Susan O'Connell, Jon Glass, David Broughton, Dinesh Tryambake, Lynn Dixon, Kath Chapman, Andrew Young, Adrian Bergin, Andrew Sigsworth, Aravind Manoj, Glyn Fletcher, Paula Lopez, Penelope Cox, Mark Wilkinson, Paul Fitzsimmons, Nikhil Sharma, James Choulerton, Denise Button, Lindsey Dow, Lukuman Gbadamoshi, Joanne Avis, Barbara Madigan, Stephanie McCann, Louise Shaw, Deborah Howcroft, Suzanne Lucas, Andrew Stone, Gillian Cluckie, Caroline Lovelock, Brian Clarke, Neha Chopra, Natasha Clarke, Bhavini Patel, Kate Kennedy, Rebecca Williams, Adrian Blight, Joanna O'Reilly, Chukwuka Orefo, Nilofer Dayal, Rita Ghatala, Temi Adedoyin, Fran Watson, Sarah Trippier, Lillian Choy, Barry Moynihan, Usman Khan, Val Jones, Naomi Jeyaraj, Lourda Kerin, Kamy Thavanesan, Divya Tiwari, Chantel Cox, Anja Ljubez, Laura Tucker, Arshi Iqbal, Caroline Bagnall, Marketa Keltos, Josh Roberts, Becky Jupp, Catherine Ovington, Emily Rogers, Owen David, Jo Bell, Barbara Longland, Gail Hann, Martin Cooper, Mohammad Nasar, Anoja Rajapakse, Inez Wynter, Ijaz Anwar, Helen Skinner, Tarn Nozedar, Damian McArdle, Balakrishna Kumar, Susan Crawford, Arunkumar Annamalai, Alex Ramshaw, Clare Holmes, Sarah Caine, Mairead Osborn, Emily Dodd, Peter Murphy, Nicola Devitt, Pauline Baker, Amy Steele, Lucy Belle Guthrie, Samantha Clarke, Ahamad Hassan, Dean Waugh, Emelda Veraque, Linetty Makawa, Mary Kambafwile, Marc Randall, Vasileios Papavasileiou, Claire Cullen, Jenny Peters, Hlaing Thant, Tanya Ingram, Mellor Zoe, Ramesh Durairaj, Melanie Harrison, Sarah Stevenson, Daniela Shackcloth, Jordan Ewing, Victoria Sutton, Mark McCarron, Jacqueline McKee, Mandy Doherty, Ferghal McVerry, Caroline Blair, Mary MacLeod, Janice Irvine, Heather Gow, Jacqueline Furnace, Anu Joyson, Baljit Jagpal, Sarah Ross, Katrina Klaasen, Sandra Nelson, Rebecca Clarke, Nichola Crouch, Beverly MacLennan, Vicky Taylor, Daniel Epstein, Avani Shukla, Vinodh Krishnamurthy, Paul Nicholas, Sammie Qureshi, Adam Webber, Justin Penge, Hawraman Ramadan, Stuart Maguire, Chris Patterson, Ruth Bellfield, Brigid Hairsine, Kelvin Stewart, Michaela Hooley, Outi Quinn, Bella Richard, Sally Moseley, Mandy Edwards, Heidi Lawson, Michelle Tayler, Yogish Pai, Mahesh Dhakal, Bernard Esisi, Sofia Dima, Gemma Marie Smith, Mark Garside, Muhammad Naeem, Vidya Baliga, Gill Rogers, Ellen Brown, David Bruce, Rachel Hayman, Susan Clayton, Ed Gamble, Rebecca Grue, Bethan Charles, Adam Hague, Sujata Blane, Caroline Lambert, Afnan Chaudhry, Thomas Harrison, Kari Saastamoinen, Dionne Hove, Laura Howaniec, Gemma Grimwood, Ozlem Redjep, Fiona Humphries, Lucia Argandona, Larissa Cuenoud, Esther Erumere, Sageet Amlani, Grace Auld, Afraim Salek-Haddadi, Ursula Schulz, James Kennedy, Gary Ford, Philip Mathieson, Ian Reckless, Rachel Teal, Giulia Lenti, George Harston, Eoin O'Brien, Joanne Mcgee, Jennifer Mitchell, Elaine Amis, Dominic Handley, Siobhan Kelly, George Zachariah, Jobbin Francis, Sarah Crisp, Juliana Sesay, Sarah Finlay, Helen Hayhoe, Niamh Hannon, Tom Hughes, Bethan Morse, Henry De Berker, Emma Tallantyre, Ahmed Osman, Susan White, Stefan Schwarz, Benjamin Jelley, Rajendra Yadava, Khalid Azhar, Julie Reddan, Mirriam Sangombe, Samantha Stafford, Ken Fotherby, Debbie Morgan, Farrukh Baig, Karla Jennings-Preece, Donna Butler, Nasar Ahmad, Angela Willberry, Angela Stevens, Baljinder Rai, Prasad Siddegowda, Peter Howard, Lisa Hyatt, Tracey Dobson, David Jarrett, Suheil Ponnambath, Jane Tandy, Yasmin Harrington-Davies, Rebecca Butler, Claire James, Stacey Valentine, Anne Suttling, Peter Langhorne, Gillian Kerr, Fiona Wright, Ruth Graham, Christine McAlpine, Mohammad Shahzad Iqbal, Louise Humphreys, Kath Pasco, Olga Balazikova, Ashraf Nasim, Cassilda Peixoto, Louise Gallagher, Shahrzad Shahmehri, Sandip Ghosh, Elizabeth Barrie, Danielle Gilmour, Margo Henry, Tom Webb, Linda Cowie, Hannah Rudenko, Shanni McDonald, Natasha Schumacher, Susannah Walker, Tracey Cosier, Anna Verrion, Eva Beranova, Audrey Thomson, Marius Venter, Arindam Kar, Sheila Mashate, Kirsten Harvey, Léjeune Gardener, Vinh Nguyen, Omid Halse, Olivia Geraghty, Beth Hazel, Peter Wilding, Victoria Tilley, Tim Cassidy, Beverley McClelland, Maria Bokhari, Timothy England, Mohana Maddula, Richard Donnelly, Paul Findlay, Ashish Macaden, Ian Shread, Charlotte Barr, Azlisham Mohd Nor, Claire Brown, Nicola Persad, Charlotte Eglinton, Marie Weinling, Benjamin Hyams, Alex Shah, John Baker, Anthony Byrne, Caroline McGhee, Amanda Smart, Claire Copeland, Michael Carpenter, Marion Walker, Richard Davey, Ann Needle, Razik Fathima, Gavin Bateman, Prabal Datta, Andrew Stanners, Linda Jackson, Julie Ball, Michelle Davis, Natalie Atkinson, Michelle Fawcett, Teresa Thompson, Helen Guy, Valerie Hogg, Carole Hays, Stephen Woodward, Mohammad Haque, Eluzai Hakim, Stuart Symonds, Mehran Maanoosi, Jane Herman, Toby Black, Skelton Miriam, Caroline Clarke, Alpha Anthony, Michele Tribbeck, Julie Cronin, Denise Mead, Ruth Fennelly, James McIlmoyle, Christina Dickinson, Carol Jeffs, Sajjad Anwar, Joanne Howard, Kirsty Jones, Saikat Dhar, Caroline Clay, Muhammad Siddiq, Simone Ivatts, Yolanda Baird, Moore Sally, Isobel Amey, Sophie Newton, Lisa Clayton-Evans, Indra Chadbourn, Rayessa Rayessa, Charde Naylor, Alicia Rodgers, Lisa Wilson, Sarah Wilson, Emma Clarkson, Ruth Davies, Paula Owings, Graeme Sangster, Valerie Gott, Victoria Little, Pauline Weir, Suja Cherian, Deepa Jose, Helen Moroney, Susan Downham, Angela Dodd, Venetia Vettimootal Johnson, Laura Codd, Naomi Robinson, Ashraf Ahmed, Mo Albazzaz, Sharon Johnson, Carol Denniss, Mishell Cunningham, Tajammal Zahoor, Timothy Webster, Sandra Leason, Syed Haider, Kausic Chatterjee, Arumugam Nallasivan, Charlotte Perkins, Samantha Seagrave, Colin Jenkins, Fiona Price, Claire Hughes, Lily Mercer, Malik Hussain, Sarah Brown, Miriam Harvey, Jane Homan, Mohammad Khan, Robert Whiting, Leanne Foote, Nicholas Hunt, Helen Durman, Lucy Brotherton, Jayne Foot, Corinne Pawley, Eliza Foster, Alison Whitcher, Kneale Metcalf, Jenny Jagger, Susan McDonald, Kelly Waterfield, Patrick Sutton, Naval Shinh, Ajmal Anversha, Garth Ravenhill, Richard Greenwood, Janak Saada, Alison Wiltshire, Rebekah Perfitt, Sreeman Andole, Naveen Gadapa, Karen Dunne, Magdalini Krommyda, Evelyne Burssens, Sam King, Catherine Plewa, Nigel Smyth, Jenny Wilson, Elio Giallombardo, Lucy Sykes, Pradeep Kumar, James Barker, Isabel Huggett, Linda Dunn, Charlotte Culmsee, Philip Thomas, Min Myint, Helen Brew, Nikhil Majmudar, Janice OConnell, George Bunea, Charlotte Fox, Diane Gulliver, Andrew Smith, Betty Mokoena, Naweed Sattar, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Emily Osborne, David Wilson, Belinda Wroath, Kevin Dynan, Michael Power, Susan Thompson, Victoria Adell, Enoch Orugun, Una Poultney, Rachel Glover, Hannah Crowther, Sarah Thornthwaite, Ivan Wiggam, Aine Wallace, Enda Kerr, Ailsa Fulton, Annemarie Hunter, Suzanne Tauro, Sarah Cuddy, David Mangion, Anne Hardwick, Skarlet Markova, Tara Lawrence, Carmen Constantin, Jo Fletcher, Isobel Thomas, Kerry Pettitt, Lakshmanan Sekaran, Margaret Tate, Kiranjit Bharaj, Rohan Simon, Frances Justin, Sakthivel Sethuraman, Duke Phiri, Niaz Mohammed, Meena Chauhan, Khaled Elfandi, Uzma Khan, David Eveson, Amit Mistri, Lisa Manning, Shagufta Khan, Champa Patel, Mohammed Moqsith, Saira Sattar, Man Yee Lam, Kashif Musarrat, Claire Stephens, Latheef Kalathil, Richard Miller, Maqsud Salehin, Nikki Gautam, Duncan Bailey, Kelly Amor, Julie Meir, Anne Nicolson, 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School of Medicine, University of St Andrews. Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis, University of St Andrews. Population and Behavioural Science Division, University of St Andrews. Pure Mathematics, University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience, and University of St Andrews. School of Biology

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Background: Findings from the RESTART trial suggest that starting antiplatelet therapy might reduce the risk of recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage compared with avoiding antiplatelet therapy. Brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases (such as cerebral microbleeds) are associated with greater risks of recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage. We did subgroup analyses of the RESTART trial to explore whether these brain imaging features modify the effects of antiplatelet therapy.Methods: RESTART was a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, parallel-group trial at 122 hospitals in the UK that assessed whether starting antiplatelet therapy might reduce the risk of recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage compared with avoiding antiplatelet therapy. For this prespecified subgroup analysis, consultant neuroradiologists masked to treatment allocation reviewed brain CT or MRI scans performed before randomisation to confirm participant eligibility and rate features of the intracerebral haemorrhage and surrounding brain. We followed participants for primary (recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage) and secondary (ischaemic stroke) outcomes for up to 5 years (reported elsewhere). For this report, we analysed eligible participants with intracerebral haemorrhage according to their treatment allocation in primary subgroup analyses of cerebral microbleeds on MRI and in exploratory subgroup analyses of other features on CT or MRI. The trial is registered with the ISRCTN registry, number ISRCTN71907627.Findings: Between May 22, 2013, and May 31, 2018, 537 participants were enrolled, of whom 525 (98%) had intracerebral haemorrhage: 507 (97%) were diagnosed on CT (252 assigned to start antiplatelet therapy and 255 assigned to avoid antiplatelet therapy, of whom one withdrew and was not analysed) and 254 (48%) underwent the required brain MRI protocol (122 in the start antiplatelet therapy group and 132 in the avoid antiplatelet therapy group). There were no clinically or statistically significant hazards of antiplatelet therapy on recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage in primary subgroup analyses of cerebral microbleed presence (2 or more) versus absence (0 or 1) (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0·30 [95% CI 0·08–1·13] vs 0·77 [0·13–4·61]; pinteraction=0·41), cerebral microbleed number 0–1 versus 2–4 versus 5 or more (HR 0·77 [0·13–4·62] vs 0·32 [0·03–3·66] vs 0·33 [0·07–1·60]; pinteraction=0·75), or cerebral microbleed strictly lobar versus other location (HR 0·52 [0·004–6·79] vs 0·37 [0·09–1·28]; pinteraction=0·85). There was no evidence of heterogeneity in the effects of antiplatelet therapy in any exploratory subgroup analyses (all pinteraction>0·05).Interpretation: Our findings exclude all but a very modest harmful effect of antiplatelet therapy on recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage in the presence of cerebral microbleeds. Further randomised trials are needed to replicate these findings and investigate them with greater precision.Funding: British Heart Foundation.

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2019
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Martin Dennis, Gillian Mead, John Forbes, Catriona Graham, Maree Hackett, Graeme J Hankey, Allan House, Stephanie Lewis, Erik Lundström, Peter Sandercock, Karen Innes, Carol Williams, Jonathan Drever, Aileen Mcgrath, Ann Deary, Ruth Fraser, Rosemary Anderson, Pauli Walker, David Perry, Connor Mcgill, David Buchanan, Yvonne Chun, Lynn Dinsmore, Emma Maschauer, Amanda Barugh, Shadia Mikhail, Gordon Blair, Ingrid Hoeritzauer, Maggie Scott, Greig Fraser, Katherine Lawrence, Alison Shaw, Judith Williamson, David Burgess, Malcolm Macleod, Dan Morales, Frank Sullivan, Marian Brady, Ray French, Frederike Van Wijck, Caroline Watkins, Fiona Proudfoot, Joanna Skwarski, Diane Mcgowan, Rachael Murphy, Seona Burgess, William Rutherford, Katrina Mccormick, Ruaridh Buchan, Allan Macraild, Ruth Paulton, Adnan Fazal, Pat Taylor, Ruwan Parakramawansha, Neil Hunter, Jack Perry, John Bamford, Dean Waugh, Emelda Veraque, Caroline Bedford, Mary Kambafwile, Luis Idrovo, Linetty Makawa, Paula Smalley, Marc Randall, Tharani Thirugnana-Chandran, Ahamad Hassan, Richard Vowden, Joanne Jackson, Ajay Bhalla, Anthony Rudd, Chi Kai Tam, Jonathan Birns, Charlotte Gibbs, Leonie Lee Carbon, Elizabeth Cattermole, Katherine Marks, Angela Cape, Lisa Hurley, Sagal Kullane, Nigel Smyth, Charlotte Eglinton, Jennifer Wilson, Elio Giallombardo, Angela Frith, Paul Reidy, Matthew Pitt, Lucy Sykes, Deborah Dellafera, Victoria Croome, Lauriane Kerwood, Mirea Hancevic, Christina Narh, Carley Merritt, John Duffy, Duncan Cooke, Juliet Willson, Ali Ali, Aaizza Naqvi, Christine Kamara, Helen Bowler, Simon Bell, Tracy Jackson, Kirsty Harkness, Kathy Stocks, Suzanna Duty, Clare Doyle, Geoffrey Dunn, Keith Endean, Fiona Claydon, Emma Richards, Jo Howe, Ralf Lindert, Arshad Majid, Katy Dakin, Ahmad Maatouk, Luke Barron, Madana Meegada, Pratap Rana, Anand Nair, Christine Brighouse-Johnson, Jill Greig, Myint Kyu, Sanjeev Prasad, Matthew Robinson, Irfan Alam, Belinda Mclean, Lindsay Greenhalgh, Zenab Ahmed, Christine 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Crause, Robert Luder, Maneesh Bhargava, Girish Bhome, Venetia V Johnson, Dara Chesser, Hayley Bridger, Elodie Murali, Jon Scott, Susan Morrison, Amy Burns, Julie Graham, Madeline Duffy, Khalid Ali, Emma Pitcher, Jane Gaylard, Julie Newman, Sunil Punnoose, Sarah Besley, Kirtan Purohit, Amy Rees, Mark Davy, Osman Chohan, Muhammad Fozan Khan, Rachel Walker, Vicky Murray, Charlotte Bent, Susan Oakley, Cassilda Peixoto, Suzanne Jones, Gaybrielle Livingstone, Fiona Butler, Sally Bradfield, Laura Gordon, Jenneke Schmit, Anika Wijewardane, Tineke Edmunds, Rebecca Wills, Catherine Medcalf, Lucia Argandona, Larissa Cuenoud, Hanna Hassan, Esther Erumere, Aidan Ocallaghan, Patrick Gompertz, Ozlem Redjep, Grace Auld, Anna Song, Tillana Tarkas, Hashim Kabash, Rumbi Hungwe, University of St Andrews. Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis, University of St Andrews. Population and Behavioural Science Division, and University of St Andrews. School of Medicine

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RM, medicine.medical_specialty, Neurology, Neurologi, NDAS, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Placebo, Minimisation (clinical trials), Article, B700, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Double-Blind Method, Randomized controlled trial, Modified Rankin Scale, law, Fluoxetine, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, R2C, Acute stroke, business.industry, ~DC~, General Medicine, Odds ratio, RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology, Stroke, RC Internal medicine, BDC, business, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, RC, medicine.drug
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Background: Results of small trials indicate that fluoxetine might improve functional outcomes after stroke. The FOCUS trial aimed to provide a precise estimate of these effects.Methods: FOCUS was a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial done at 103 hospitals in the UK. Patients were eligible if they were aged 18 years or older, had a clinical stroke diagnosis, were enrolled and randomly assigned between 2 days and 15 days after onset, and had focal neurological deficits. Patients were randomly allocated fluoxetine 20 mg or matching placebo orally once daily for 6 months via a web-based system by use of a minimisation algorithm. The primary outcome was functional status, measured with the modified Rankin Scale (mRS), at 6 months. Patients, carers, health-care staff, and the trial team were masked to treatment allocation. Functional status was assessed at 6 months and 12 months after randomisation. Patients were analysed according to their treatment allocation. This trial is registered with the ISRCTN registry, number ISRCTN83290762.Findings: Between Sept 10, 2012, and March 31, 2017, 3127 patients were recruited. 1564 patients were allocated fluoxetine and 1563 allocated placebo. mRS data at 6 months were available for 1553 (99·3%) patients in each treatment group. The distribution across mRS categories at 6 months was similar in the fluoxetine and placebo groups (common odds ratio adjusted for minimisation variables 0·951 [95% CI 0·839–1·079]; p=0·439). Patients allocated fluoxetine were less likely than those allocated placebo to develop new depression by 6 months (210 [13·43%] patients vs 269 [17·21%]; difference 3·78% [95% CI 1·26–6·30]; p=0·0033), but they had more bone fractures (45 [2·88%] vs 23 [1·47%]; difference 1·41% [95% CI 0·38–2·43]; p=0·0070). There were no significant differences in any other event at 6 or 12 months.Interpretation: Fluoxetine 20 mg given daily for 6 months after acute stroke does not seem to improve functional outcomes. Although the treatment reduced the occurrence of depression, it increased the frequency of bone fractures. These results do not support the routine use of fluoxetine either for the prevention of post-stroke depression or to promote recovery of function.Funding: UK Stroke Association and NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme.

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2019
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6. Antiplatelet therapy with aspirin, clopidogrel, and dipyridamole versus clopidogrel alone or aspirin and dipyridamole in patients with acute cerebral ischaemia (TARDIS): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 superiority trial

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Ruth Graham, Charlotte Eglinton, Swapna Kunhunny, J Banns, Alison K Wright, Sunil Munshi, C Khuoge, Beverley McClelland, A Benford, Jean Buxton, Maia Beridze, K Deighton, Neha Chopra, Nichola Motherwell, Emily C. O'Brien, Sonia S. Anand, Anand Dixit, Una Poultney, N Beridze, Jessica Beavan, K Dizayee, Thompson G. Robinson, Deborah Howcroft, Alison Sarah rachel Mcloughlin, A Kenton, Derek Esson, A Tittle, L Matter, Kerstin Knops, C Hubbuck, Kath Chapman, R Rangasamay, Ranjan Sanyal, Sarah Lewis, Alpha Anthony, Sarah Board, Janice Irvine, Anna Verrion, Katherine Whittamore, N Khizanishvili, L O'Shea, Lisa Shaw, K Ayes, Tracey Dobson, N Akiashvili, Gill Rogers, Jenny Peters, Alda Remegoso, S S Hansen, James A. White, T Attygalle, Rosalind Brown, Irene Martin, Manesh R. Patel, D O'Kane, Stuart J. Pocock, Khalid Rashed, G Spurling, Sharon Tysoe, Frances Harrington, Margo Henry, Rowilson Jarapa, Julia Hindle, K A Kay, Carinna Vickers, S Duty, Angela Bowring, David Eveson, Saul Sundayi, Mary Kambafwile, Rashmi Kumar, Jack Roffe, Marilyn James, Natalie Temple, R Oliver, Christine Kelly, M Niemierko, J Chembala, S Jones, M Dent, K Chatterjee, S Atkinson, J Tomlinson, S Norman, E Cattermole, P Daboo, Nicola Gilzeane, Anne Hardwick, Pietro Cariga, C Rankin, David A. Wood, Lelia Duley, John Bamford, L Holford, J Good, C Ambulo, S Gomm, Girish Muddegowda, Fiona Wright, M Alao, L Sztriha, Maite D. Rodriguez, Christine Dickson, S Merotra, Helen Bearne, Ann Needle, Emma Mckenzie, Olga Balazikova, Emily Osborne, A Lankester, Rod S Taylor, Pauline Fitzell, Bernard Esisi, E Young, Richard Donnelly, Anu Joyson, Debbie Morgan, Fran Watson, Caroline Mcinnes, C Padilla-Harris, Stephanie McCann, T Ajao, Suzanne Lucas, Inez Wynter, Barbara Longland, Don Sims, Gavin Bateman, Anthony Hemsley, Vera Cvoro, Fiona Kennedy, Peter Langhorne, Adrian Butler, P Jacob, Barry Moynihan, Amit K. Mistri, W Sunman, Hannah Beadle, Polly Scutt, M Garside, Glyn Fletcher, Deborah Walstow, L Ryan, Michelle Fawcett, D Wilkinson, E Gibson, O Orugun, Malcolm R. Macleod, Philip M.W. Bath, Elio Giallombardo, T Kherkheulidze, Lourda Kerin, Clare Doyle, Brigid Hairsine, N Kakabadze, B Wadams, Enas Lawrence, Dinesh Chadha, I Memon, Cheryl L. Perkins, Victoria Sutton, C.B. Patel, A Ravindrane, K Javaid, Mahmud Sajid, T Tsanava, Y Duodu, Timothy J. England, Geoffrey A. Rose, Sheila Nyabadza, Louisa M. Christensen, M Bajoriene, F Faola, J Kok, C Vernon, Aravindakshan Manoj, E Horsley, T Gordon, Linda Cowie, S Hurdowar, D Sandler, Temi Adedoyin, Mandy Couser, C Jenkins, C Pringle, Paula Lopez, Vicky Taylor, James Cunningham, Gillian Courtauld, S Maheswaran, H Rehman, Christine Roffe, M Sein, Carla Richardson, John B. Davis, Nenette Abano, Racquel Carpio, Sheila Mashate, P Christian, Lynn Dixon, Dulka Manawadu, Jeanette Grocott, Peter Owusu-Agyei, P Farren, F K Chan, Komal Ali, Annemarei Ranta, Judith Clarke, Dean Waugh, Stan Heptinstall, M Reader, Nikola Sprigg, John F. Corrigan, Caroline Roughan, F Brodie, Paula Harman, P Webster, Kenneth Smith, Julie Reddan, Angela Willberry, Peter Howard, Kay Finney, S Buddha, C Hewitt, M Zaidi, Tracy Marsden, Heather Gow, Robert A. Dineen, Kimberley Netherton, Kashif Musarrat, Emma Barbon, V Riddell, G Storey, Ahamad Hassan, O Adegbaju, S Wong, Bethan Charles, Bindu Gregary, Rhys Williams, M G Metiu, Nilofer Dayal, C Lawlor, Kirsten E Anderson, R Icart Palau, N Khanom, C Stevenson, Prabel Datta, Betty Mokoena, Kelly Chan, Amanda Hedstrom, Sonia Raj, Y Gruenbeck, D Dellafera, Georgina Butt, A Peacocke, James Okwera, L Mokoena, Holly Maguire, Mohana Maddula, C Bailey, Ian Shread, LáShauntá M. Glover, Elizabeth Keeling, Mari Smith, Jane Powell, A Tevdoradze, Christopher Price, Hannah Rudenko, K Gill, Laura Howaniec, P Lingwood, Katherine Marks, Ivan Iniesta, F Barrett, Barbara Madigan, Emery N. Brown, Katie Flaherty, Gail Hann, Mark Barber, Kelley Storey, Aparna Pusalkar, Jason P. Appleton, Joanne Hiden, R Jolly, Hedley C. A. Emsley, J Chambers, Christina Kruuse, Mairead Osborn, P Lai, Tracy Fuller, David G. Bruce, Robert Namushi, Martin Cooper, Peter Murphy, Naomi Jeyaraj, Hayley Kingwell, A Nair, Robert S.M. Davies, Katrina McCormick, Rachel L. Lakey, Sharon Dealing, F Leslie, Peter Wilkinson, Amitava Banerjee, Penelope Cox, Janice E. O’Connell, N Sikondari, Sandra Leason, Lisa J Woodhouse, Judith Bell, Puneet Dangri, Donna Butler, Judith Dube, Rachel Gascoyne, Amberly Brigden, Debs Kelly, Renuka Erande, Kirsty Harkness, Sarah Trippier, Kirsten Harvey, Georgina Ayres, R Rowland-Axe, E Campbell, Sue Lyjko, Sylvia Szabo, David Mangion, Suzanne Ragab, C Hilaire, Alan A Montgomery, Dawn Tomlin, John Paterson, K Muhidden, Grace Auld, C Keaveney, Hannah Crowther, Lisa Hyatt, Louise E. Jackson, K Castro, Khaled Elfandi, H Russell, S Tennant, Ozlem Redjep, Tim Cassidy, Linda Y Johnson, Amulya Misra, E Khoromana, Catherine Ovington, Stuart Maguire, S Khan, Zoe Mellor, Michael Funnell, Hugh S. Markus, Emma Richards, I Toidze, Colin Smith, R Sivakumar, Janet Wilson, Amina Ahmed, A Mohd Nor, A Barkat, Line Bentsen, K Whysall, Carol L Clarke, N Sengupta, Meena Srinivasan, Balakrishna Kumar, Mgg Soliman, A Thomson, Adrian Barry, Abul Azim, Ed Gamble, H Eccleson, Kelly Marie Shaw, Christine Schofield, Linetty Makawa, Carole Hays, David Hargroves, Jordi Margalef, S Butler, H Webb, Carol Denniss, Samantha Stafford, Faye Shelton, D Forrest, Amanda Buck, Tarn Nozedar, Indira Natarajan, Jane Perez, Susanna R. Stevens, Denise Button, Mary Johnes, Samantha Keenan, Olivia C. Geraghty, Eva Beranova, Emma Jinks, S Hassan, Caroline McGhee, Nicola Persad, Gunaratnam Gunathilagan, Clare Buckley, Jennifer Mitchell, Mike Clarke, Mathew Burn, B Bhaskaran, D Hayward, Lucy Belle Guthrie, S Meenakshisundaram, Anushka Warusevitane, O Speirs, J O'Callaghan, Sudipto Ghosh, Peter Wilding, Helen Cochrane, Susan Clayton, Mandy Doherty, Fiona Price, L Montague, Valerie Hogg, S Arif, Beth Hazel, Margaret Ball, S Johnson-Holland, S Booth, N Rands, Dionne Hove, Teresa Thompson, C Krarup Hansen, Lisa Manning, Andrew Smith, Jo Howe, Jill Greig, Kailash Krishnan, Caroline Watchurst, L Finlay, Sandra Nelson, Toby Black, S Tilby, Zin Naing, D Morse, David Broughton, K Preece, M Platton, M Siddiqui, Angela Dodd, Catrin Blank, Maria Bokhari, Jacqueline Furnace, F Hammonds, Helen Guy, A Lehman, J Hunt, S Windebank, Becky Jupp, K Fotherby, Ruth Bellfield, P Wanklyn, D Hilton, Amy Steele, S Mahmood, N Lobjanidze, Sarah Finlay, L Hunt, M Krasinska-Chavez, Gemma Grimwood, H H Jensen, J. Duignan, Jane Gaylard, Asaipillai Asokanathan, Joanna O'Reilly, J Kessell, Diane Havard, T Fluskey, L Lee-Carbon, Graham Venables, Margi Godfrey, L Boxall, C Douglass, Emelda Veraque, Elaine Amis, M Chowdhury, Rekha Keshvara, Adrian Blight, G Thomas, Marc Randall, S Stoddart, Paul Guyler, Rita Ghatala, Janet T Scott, Kathy J. Jenkins, Sarah Ross, John Aeron-Thomas, C Allcock, J Goodsell, Ifan Jones, D Kakabadze, T T Thomsen, V Petrovic, I. Watson, C Athulathmudali, Hanne Christensen, Susan Crawford, Christine Kamara, James McIlmoyle, Stephen Woodward, Christine McAlpine, Emma Temlett, Gwendoline Wilkes, Benjamin Hyams, L Mills, S Brixey, Raj Shekhar, P Findlay, Markus, Hugh [0000-0002-9794-5996], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Georgia, Ticlopidine, Denmark, Hemorrhage, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Risk Assessment, Brain Ischemia, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Ischemia, Recurrence, Modified Rankin Scale, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Thrombolytic Therapy, Prospective Studies, cardiovascular diseases, Stroke, Aged, Aspirin, business.industry, Dipyridamole, General Medicine, Guideline, Middle Aged, Clopidogrel, medicine.disease, United Kingdom, Treatment Outcome, Ischemic Attack, Transient, Research Design, Acute Disease, Platelet aggregation inhibitor, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, business, Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, New Zealand, medicine.drug
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Summary Background Intensive antiplatelet therapy with three agents might be more effective than guideline treatment for preventing recurrent events in patients with acute cerebral ischaemia. We aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of intensive antiplatelet therapy (combined aspirin, clopidogrel, and dipyridamole) with that of guideline-based antiplatelet therapy. Methods We did an international, prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint trial in adult participants with ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) within 48 h of onset. Participants were assigned in a 1:1 ratio using computer randomisation to receive loading doses and then 30 days of intensive antiplatelet therapy (combined aspirin 75 mg, clopidogrel 75 mg, and dipyridamole 200 mg twice daily) or guideline-based therapy (comprising either clopidogrel alone or combined aspirin and dipyridamole). Randomisation was stratified by country and index event, and minimised with prognostic baseline factors, medication use, time to randomisation, stroke-related factors, and thrombolysis. The ordinal primary outcome was the combined incidence and severity of any recurrent stroke (ischaemic or haemorrhagic; assessed using the modified Rankin Scale) or TIA within 90 days, as assessed by central telephone follow-up with masking to treatment assignment, and analysed by intention to treat. This trial is registered with the ISRCTN registry, number ISRCTN47823388. Findings 3096 participants (1556 in the intensive antiplatelet therapy group, 1540 in the guideline antiplatelet therapy group) were recruited from 106 hospitals in four countries between April 7, 2009, and March 18, 2016. The trial was stopped early on the recommendation of the data monitoring committee. The incidence and severity of recurrent stroke or TIA did not differ between intensive and guideline therapy (93 [6%] participants vs 105 [7%]; adjusted common odds ratio [cOR] 0·90, 95% CI 0·67–1·20, p=0·47). By contrast, intensive antiplatelet therapy was associated with more, and more severe, bleeding (adjusted cOR 2·54, 95% CI 2·05–3·16, p Interpretation Among patients with recent cerebral ischaemia, intensive antiplatelet therapy did not reduce the incidence and severity of recurrent stroke or TIA, but did significantly increase the risk of major bleeding. Triple antiplatelet therapy should not be used in routine clinical practice. Funding National Institutes of Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme, British Heart Foundation.

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2017

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