Could a common stroke drug help people with a rare brain disease?

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

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Meet a diagnosis for "clinically established MSA" according to the Movement Disorder Society (MDS) diagnostic criteria for multiple system atrophy revised in 2022, as assessed by a neurologist; 2. Patients aged between 30 and 80 years, within 5 years since the initial diagnosis of MSA, and with a life expectancy greater than 3 years; 3. Patients are not entirely dependent on a wheelchair or bedridden and are capable of cooperating with necessary assessments and examinations, including scale evaluations, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and PET-CT scans; 4. Patients must have been on a stable medication regimen (for a duration of at least one month) prior to the trial, which may include drugs for anti-Parkinson, anti-autonomic dysfunction, anti-anxiety/depression agents, and sleep aids Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with a diagnosis confirmed by PET-CT or revised during follow-up to other diseases, such as idiopathic Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, dementia with Lewy bodies, or secondary parkinsonian syndromes. 2. Patients with a history of other major neurological disorders, including ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, epilepsy, encephalitis, or central nervous system demyelinating diseases; 3. Patients with a history of psychiatric disorders that may involve psychotic symptoms, such as schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, or dissociative -conversion disorders. 4. Patients with severe hepatic or renal impairment (alanine aminotransferase \[ALT\] or aspartate aminotransferase \[AST\] levels \>2 xULN; Estimated creatinine clearance \<30 mL/min; 5. Patients with a heamorrhage event within the past 3 months or a high bleeding risk; 6. Patients with a history of significant craniocerebral trauma or surgery; 7. Patients with severe cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination \[MMSE\] score \<24); 8. Patients with a history of malignancy or autoimmune diseases; 9. Patients with dysphagia due to severe medullary dysfunction or esophageal disorders, or those unable to comply with medication administration for other reasons; 10. Patients who are pregnant, lactating, or planning a pregnancy within the next year.