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RecruitingNCT05068349Updated Apr 9, 2024

For Patients With Ischemic Stroke, Clinically Study the Effectiveness and Safety of Butylphthalide.

A Phase 4 interventional study of Butylphthalide in Stroke, Cerebral Infarction and Brain Infarction, sponsored by Qianfoshan Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-04-09.

Sponsored by Qianfoshan Hospital · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Sep 2025, 1 year 2 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started May 2022; still recruiting 4 years 6 months later.
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
300
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a prospective, open, single-arm, the real world of clinical trials. The researchers plan to recruit 300 eligible patients. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of butylphthalide in the treatment of ischemic stroke, and to establish a population pharmacokinetic model of butylphthalide in elderly patients to explore its blood drug concentration. Correlation with its efficacy and adverse reactions.

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Ischemic stroke is one of the diseases that seriously threaten human health, with the characteristics of high incidence, high disability and high recurrence rate. Patients will not only suffer from impaired physical function, but also mental symptoms, social function and other obstacles, which seriously affect the quality of life.

Butylphthalide can improve the damage of central nervous system in patients with acute ischemic stroke, and can promote the improvement of patients with neurological deficits. Regarding the treatment of ischemic stroke with butylphthalide, there is still a lack of big data research based on real-world efficacy and safety; there is a lack of data on the pharmacokinetics of elderly patients and their correlation with adverse reactions.

Thus, it is estimated that 300 patients will be enrolled and given intravenous butylphthalide sodium chloride injection 25mg twice a day for 7-14 days, and then oral butylphthalide soft capsule 0.2g three times a day for 76-83 days. The patients will be collected for experiment before and after treatment. Laboratory data, electrocardiogram, NIHSS, mRS, combined medication and adverse events, etc., to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of butylphthalide in the treatment of ischemic stroke. In addition, a population pharmacokinetic model of butylphthalide in elderly patients was established for 50 of them.

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Conditions studied

  • Stroke
  • Cerebral Infarction
  • Brain Infarction
  • Brain Ischemia
  • Nervous System Diseases
  • Central Nervous System Diseases
  • Vascular Diseases

Keywords

  • Butylphthalide
  • Ischemic Strokes
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In context

Stroke

8,255 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,056 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 49 across 6,024 interventional studies indexed under Stroke.

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Lead sponsor

Qianfoshan Hospital is the lead sponsor of 144 studies on the registry; 75 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

    1. Female or male aged ≥ 18 years.
    1. Acute ischemic stroke within 48 hours of onset
    1. Examination to exclude intracranial hemorrhage
    1. Provision of .

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • 1.Head CT or MRI suggests the presence of intracranial hemorrhagic disease
  • 2.Patients with cerebral embolism or suspected cerebral embolism with severe atrioventricular block disease, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, heart valve disease, infective endocarditis, heart rate less than 50 beats per minute
  • 3.Abnormal liver function (transaminase or AST exceeding the ), abnormal renal function (creatinine exceeding the upper limit of normal), or suffering from other serious systemic diseases, etc
  • 4.Allergy to Butylphthalide
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

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ULN (upper limit of normal)

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“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
300 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    A group of patients with ischemic stroke were treated with butylphthalide injection and capsules

    Patients eligible for inclusion and exclusion are only divided into one group, no controls or other.

    Drug: Butylphthalide

Interventions

  • Butylphthalide sodium chloride injection 25mg, 2 times a day, 7-14 days, followed by 0.2g butylphthalide soft capsules, 3 times a day, 76-83 days, a total of 90 days.

    Also known as: 3-n-Butylphthalide

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The incidence of adverse events caused by treatment

    In a clinical trial, the probability of an unexpected and adverse medical event that occurs after a patient or clinical subject receives a trial drug, but it does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the treatment.

    Time frame: 90 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. NIHSS

    NIH stroke scale (NIHSS) to assess the degree of neurological deficit in stroke patients. The score ranges from 0 to 42 points, the higher the score, the more severe the nerve damage. Patients with a baseline assessment of\> 16 points are likely to die, while those with a score of \<6 are likely to recover well; for each additional point, the probability of a good prognosis is reduced by 17%

    Time frame: 90 days

  2. mRS

    Modified Rankin scale (mRS) is an indicator of the efficacy of functional disability. The score ranges from 0 to 5 points, and the clinical score will be increased to 6 points to indicate death. The higher the score, the more disability the patient is.

    Time frame: 90 days

  3. Correlation between blood drug concentration and adverse events

    Try to find the relationship between pharmacokinetic parameters and adverse events

    Time frame: 90 days

Other outcomes

  1. hemoglobin concentration

    The normal range of hemoglobin concentration is 120-160g/L for adult males and 110-150g/L for adult females

    Time frame: 90days

  2. ECG

    The electrocardiogram (ECG) mainly checks whether the patient's heart rate, PR interval, QRS interval, and QT interval are within the normal range.

    Time frame: 90days

  3. White blood cell count

    White blood cell normal value parameters: adult white blood cell normal value (4.0\~10.0)\*109 /L

    Time frame: 90days

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes

Supporting information: Study protocol, Informed consent form

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 9, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05068349
Responsible party
Xin Huang (Chief Pharmacist, Qianfoshan Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Oct 5, 2021
Start date
May 7, 2022
Primary completion
Sep 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 9, 2024

Study contacts

Xueyan Cui
Contact
qfscxy@126.com
15053180972
Shuxian Lv
Contact
15154126233
Xin Huang
study director · Qianfoshan Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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