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Trial reportScientific reports2024

Predictors of the unfavorable outcomes in acute ischemic stroke patients treated with alteplase, a multi-center randomized trial.

Mohamed G Zeinhom, Mohamed Fouad Elsayed Khalil, Islam Fathallah Mohamed Kamel, Ahmed Mohamed Kohail, Sherihan Rezk Ahmed, Ahmed Elbassiouny, Ashfaq Shuaib, Omar M Al-Nozha

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06058884 (Predictors of the Unfavourable Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated With Alteplase, a Multi-centre Prospective Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06058884 phase4completednot on this map

Predictors of the Unfavourable Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated With Alteplase, a Multi-centre Prospective Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorKafrelsheikh UniversityRan2022 to 2023Enrolled592ConditionsIschemic Stroke, Alteplase Adverse ReactionArmsAlteplase
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cilostazole versus clopidogrel in acute large-vessel moderate and moderate-to-severe ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Mohamed G ZeinhomNeurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Elgeish Street, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt. mohamed_gomaa@med.kfs.edu.eg.
Mohamed Fouad Elsayed KhalilNeurology Department, Saudi German Hospital Madinah, Abyar Ali. Al Jamaat Rd., Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Islam Fathallah Mohamed KamelNeurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, El-gash St., Tanta, Egypt.
Ahmed Mohamed KohailNeurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, ELmokhaim St., Cairo, Egypt.
Sherihan Rezk AhmedNeurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Elgeish Street, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Ahmed ElbassiounyNeurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, ELabbasia St., Cairo, Egypt.
Ashfaq ShuaibDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Clinical Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
Omar M Al-NozhaMedicine Department, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Janadah Bin Umayyah Rd., Tayba, Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Kafrelsheikh University · EGAin Shams University · EGAl-Azhar University · EGIslamic University of Madinah · SATaibah University · SATanta University · EGUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Worldwide, stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability in adults. Alteplase is the only approved treatment for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and results in an improvement in a third of treated patients. We evaluated the post-stroke unfavourable outcome predictors in alteplase-treated patients from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We assessed the effect of different risk factors on AIS outcomes after alteplase in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Our study included 592 AIS alteplase-treated patients. The relationship between risk factors, clinical presentation, and imaging features was evaluated to predict factors associated with poor outcomes. An mRS score of three or more was used to define poor outcomes. Poor outcome was seen in 136 patients (23%), and Patients with unfavourable effects had significantly higher admission hyperglycaemia, a higher percentage of diabetes mellitus, cardioembolic stroke, and a lower percentage of small vessel stroke. Patients with higher baseline NIHSS score (OR 1.39; 95% CI 1.12-1.71; P = 0.003), admission hyperglycaemia (OR 13.12; 95% CI 3.37-51.1; P < 0.001), and post-alteplase intracerebral haemorrhage (OR 7.41; 95% CI 1.69-32.43; P = 0.008) independently predicted unfavourable outcomes at three months. In AIS patients treated with alteplase, similar to reports from other regions, in patients from Egypt and Saudi Arabia also reveal that higher NIHSS, higher serum blood sugar, and post-alteplase intracerebral haemorrhage were the predictors of unfavourable outcomes three months after ischemic stroke.Trial registration: (clinicaltrials.gov NCT06058884), retrospectively registered on 28/09/2023.

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Brain IschemiaHyperglycemiaIschemic StrokeStrokeAdultCerebral HemorrhageFibrinolytic AgentsHumansMiddle Eastern PeopleNorth African PeopleTissue Plasminogen ActivatorTreatment OutcomeFibrinolytic AgentsTissue Plasminogen ActivatorAcute ischemic strokeAlteplaseEgyptFunctional outcomesSaudi Arabia

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