New study peers inside the brain after a stroke to uncover healing clues

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Adults (≥ 18 years old); 2. presenting with a symptomatic spontaneous supratentorial ICH; 3. ICH within 48 hours after symptoms onset (or last seen well); 4. ICH confirmed by brain imaging; 5. Informed consent documented; 6. Affiliated or beneficiary of social security scheme. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Massive ICH volume (≥ 60 ml) at admission; 2. Severe coma (defined as a Glasgow Coma Scale score \< 6) at admission; 3. Planned neurosurgical hematoma evacuation; 4. Decision already taken for palliative care with withdrawal of active treatment; 5. Pre-existing dependance defined as a mRS score ≥2 prior to ICH occurrence; 6. Underlying secondary cause of ICH including macrovascular causes (brain arteriovenous malformation, intracranial aneurysm, dural arteriovenous fistula, cavernous malformation), brain tumour, cerebral venous thrombosis, hemorrhagic infarction. Patients taking oral anticoagulant can be included; 7. TSPO genotyping demonstrating a low affinity binder profile, 8. Unable to tolerate or contraindicated to brain MRI: medical material not MRI compatible, claustrophobia, known hypersensitivity to gadoteric acid, meglumin or any drug containing gadolinium; 9. Estimated glomerular filtration rate \< 30 ml/min/1.73 m 2 10. Unable to tolerate or contraindicated to 18F-DPA714 PET: women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, claustrophobia, and known hypersensitivity to DPA-714; 11. Use of Benzodiazepines within 7 days (within 6 weeks for prazepam, diazepam or clorazepate) preceding TSPO PET acquisition; 12. Co-existing neuroinflammatory disease such as Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromyelitis optica, Neurosarcoidosis, autoimmune encephalitis, CNS vasculitis; 13. Conditions requiring long-term immunosuppressive medication; 14. Expected impossible follow-up or poor compliance; 15. Patient under tutorship, curatorship, or legal protection.