Balloon treatment for narrowed brain arteries
Part of Brain & nervous system, Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This study compares using a special balloon to open narrowed brain arteries against just taking medicines. It aims to see which is better at preventing more strokes in people who have had symptoms from a severely narrowed artery.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are between 18 and 80 years old.
- You have had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within the last 90 days caused by a severe narrowing (70-99%) in one of the major arteries in your brain.
- You are currently taking at least one blood-thinning medicine to help prevent strokes.
- You have not had a large stroke, brain bleed, or heart attack in the last 3 months.
- You have not had surgery in the last 3 weeks.
- You do not have other conditions like moyamoya disease, vasculitis, or a dissection that caused the narrowing.
- You are not pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding.
- You are able to take medicines like aspirin, clopidogrel, or heparin, and are not allergic to them.
- You have not had a stent placed in the same artery before.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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