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作者: Das, Dwijen ; Nambiar, Vivek ; Huilgol, Rahul ; Jain, Agam ; Sharma, Dinesh ; Chaturvedi, Monali ; Sarmah, Binod ; Parthasarathy, Rajsrinivas ; Karadan, Ummer ; Borah, NC ; Das, Rupjyoti ; Jha, Menka ; Iype, Thomas ; KS, Arya Devi ; Yerasu, Muralidhar Reddy ; Kulkarni, Girish Baburao ; Arora, Deepti ; Alapatt, Paul J ; Upputuri, Aruna K ; Sharma, Meenakshi ; Menon, Deepak ; Kempegowda, Madhusudhan ; Zirpe, Kapil ; Raju, Pheba S ; Chander, Praveen ; Narayan, Sunil ; Ramakrishnan, TCR ; Dhankhar, Kailash ; Sylaja, PN ; Sharma, Sudheer ; Kumaravelu, S ; Akhtar, Saleem ; Saravanan, Sankaralingam ; Sundarachary, Nagarjunakonda V ; Pamidimukkala, Vijaya ; Bal, Deepti ; Naik, Karkal R ; Bhoi, Sanjeev ; Singh, Sulena ; Maheshwari, Siddarth ; Dhasan, Aneesh ; Sahonta, Rajeshwar ; Sharma, Ashish ; Khurana, Dheeraj ; Kalita, Naurima ; Basumatary, Lakshya J ; Ramrakhiani, Neetu ; Mittal, Gaurav ; Jaiswal, Shyam K ; Desai, Soaham ; Sarma, P Sankara ; Dhamija, Rajinder K ; Chakraborty, Uddalak ; Wagh, Satish ; Puri, Inder ; Bhatia, Rohit ; Thakkar, Vicky ; Raja, Pritam ; Saroja, Aralikatte Onkarappa ; Benny, Rajesh ; Johnson, Jacob ; Verma, Shweta Jain ; Adhikari, Sweekriti ; Gurav, Sushma ; Sharma, Praveen Kumar ; Roy, Jayanta ; Ray, Biman Kanti ; Bhutani, Neeraj ; Ray, Sucharita ; Aaron, Sanjith ; P, Chithra ; Pradeep Kumar, VG ; Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai ; Menon, Girish ; Pathak, Abhishek ; Gorthi, Sankar Prasad ; Dhaliwal, Rupinder S ; Doshi, Darshan ; Phillips, Atul ; Chaudhary, Vikram
Rationale::Early mortality in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is due to hematoma volume (HV) expansion, and there are no effective treatments available other than reduction in blood pressure. Tranexamic acid (TXA) a hemostatic drug that is widely available and safe can be a cost-effective treatment for ICH, if proven efficacious.
Hypothesis::Administration of TXA in ICH patients when given within 4.5 h of symptom onset will reduce early mortality at 30 days.
Design::Indian Trial of Tranexamic acid in Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage (INTRINSIC trial) is a multicenter, randomized, open-label, trial enrolling patients aged more than 18 years presenting with non-traumatic ICH within 4.5 h of symptom onset or when last seen well. Study participants received 2 g of TXA administered within 45 min while control group received standard of care. Intensive blood pressure reduction as per INTERACT 2 protocol is followed is done in both groups. Study plans to recruit 3400 patients. Primary outcome is mortality at day 30. Secondary outcomes are radiological reduction in HV at 24 h from baseline, neurological impairment at day 7 or earlier (if discharged), and assessments of dependency and quality of life at day 90.
Summary::If proven to be beneficial, TXA will have a major impact on medical management of ICH.
Trial registration::Clinical Trial Registry India (CTRI/2023/03/050224) and Clinical Trials.gov (NCT05836831).