Efficacy Study of Cilostazol and Aspirin on Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (NCT01932203) | Clinical Trial Compass
UnknownPhase 4
Efficacy Study of Cilostazol and Aspirin on Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
South Korea255 participantsStarted 2013-07-17
Plain-language summary
There may be a difference in efficacy of cilostazol and aspirin on progression of white matter changes in cerebral small vessel disease.
Who can participate
Age range50 Years – 85 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* 50 to 85 years of age
* He/She can walk to the hospital (walker or cane is permissible).
* Cerebral small vessel disease is observed on brain MRI.
1\) presence of one or more lacunar infarction and 2) moderate or severe confluent leukoaraiosis (defined as grade 2 or 3 on a modified Fazekas scale): periventricular WMCs with cap or rims lager than 5mm and deep subcortical WMCs \>10 mm in maximum diameter
* written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
* Any patient with contraindication of antiplatelets
* Any patient with cardioembolic source
* Carotid bruit or large cerebral artery stenosis \>50%
* Cortical infarction or subcortical infarction lager than 1.5 cm
* bleeding tendency
* chronic liver disease (AST or ALT \>100 IL/L)
* chronic renal disease (Creatinine \>3.0mg/dL)
* active gastrointestinal ulcer
* any patients with any severe or unstable medical disease that may prevent them from completing study requirements (i.e., unstable or severe asthma)
* Anemia (Hb \<10g/dL) or thrombocytopenia
* Cardiac pacemaker or contraindication to MRI
* Pregnancy or breast-feeding
* drug or alcohol addiction
* Any other white matte disease (i.e., Multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, or brain irradiation, etc) or brain tumor
* Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease or any other neurodegenerative disease
* any hearing or visual impairment that can disturb the efficient evaluation of the patient
* recent cerebral infarction with 3 months