Brain swelling after stroke: could it be a key target for better recovery?
NCT ID NCT04621357
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study looks at how swelling around a brain bleed affects recovery in 500 stroke patients. Researchers will use MRI scans and blood tests to understand the swelling's role. The goal is to find new ways to treat this devastating type of stroke.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward new ways to treat brain swelling after a hemorrhagic stroke, potentially improving recovery.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It will not directly test any new therapy, and results may not lead to immediate changes in care.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 500 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2021
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * With a spontaneous ICH, i.e. non traumatic * Admitted within 12 hours of stroke onset. For wake-up strokes, time of last seen well will be considered as stroke onset * Patient insured under the French social security * Consent form signed Exclusion Criteria: * Pure intraventricular haemorrhages * "secondary" ICH: ICH resulting from intracranial vascular malformation, intracranial venous thrombosis, head trauma or tumour; haemorrhagic transformation within an infarct * Pre-admission modified Rankin score of 4 or 5 * Life expectancy of less than 1 year related to comorbidities (end stage cancer, end stage organ failure) * Pregnancy or breastfeeding or Women of childbearing age without effective contraception (a pregnancy test will be done) * Adults who are deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Referral from other hospitals * Contra-indication to MRI : claustrophobia, ocular metallic foreign bodies (accidental or other) or in a risk area (nervous or vascular system);irremovable implanted medical device (pacemaker, neurostimulator, cochlear implants and others);metallic heart valve (mainly old heart valves) or vascular clips previously implanted on cranial aneurysms; gadolinium allergy * No consent form
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU de Lille
RECRUITINGLille, 59037, France
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