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RecruitingNCT06102720COLCHIDAUpdated Nov 7, 2023

Efficacy of Colchicine in Preventing Recurrent Stroke in the Patients With Acute Atherothrombotic Ischemic Stroke During Hospitalization

A Phase 4 interventional study of Colchicine and Clopidogrel in Ischemic Stroke, sponsored by Mikhail Zykov. Recruiting at 2 sites in Russian Federation. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-07.

Sponsored by Mikhail Zykov · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jan 2025, 1 year 9 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Registered 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2023, registered Oct 2023).
  • Started Jan 2023; still recruiting 3 years 8 months later.
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is two-center, prospective, randomized, open-label, controlled, investigator-sponsored study that aims to investigate the efficacy of low-dose colchicine in preventing recurrent stroke in the patients with acute atherothrombotic minor-to-moderate ischemic stroke during hospitalization.

Read the detailed description

This study is two-center, prospective, randomized, open-label, controlled, investigator-sponsored study that aims to investigate the efficacy of low-dose colchicine in preventing recurrent stroke in the patients with acute atherothrombotic minor-to-moderate ischemic stroke during hospitalization. Patients who were eligible to the inclusion criteria and ineligible to the exclusion criteria will be randomly assigned into two groups by a 1:1 ratio. Patients in one arm will receive colchicine initiated with a dose of 0.5 mg per day during on days 1 through 14. Study visits will be performed on the day of randomization and at discharge. The outcomes were stroke, neurological deterioration, сombined endpoint events (stroke, myocardial infarction and death), bleeding during 14 days of follow-up in an intention-to treat analysis.

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Conditions studied

  • Ischemic Stroke

Keywords

  • ischemic stroke
  • low-dose colchicine
  • clopidogrel
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In context

Stroke

7,286 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,007 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 50 across 5,369 interventional studies indexed under Stroke.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Mikhail Zykov as lead sponsor.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Signed informed consent form by patient prior to any study-specific procedure.
  2. Patient age over 18 years
  3. Presence of ipsilateral lesion of the extracranial artery ≥50% according to the European measurement method ECST or its occlusion, as well as stenosis \< 50% with signs of morphological instability of the atherosclerotic plaque (ulceration, hemorrhage into the plaque, intimal flotation, mural thrombus, etc.).
  4. Minor neurological deficit (NIHSS score ≤5).
  5. The duration of development of stroke symptoms before colchicine taken is no more than 48 hours.
  6. Confirmation of the presence of a focus of acute ischemia in the brain according to computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging of the brain.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. The presence of risk factors and conditions that determine a different pathogenetic subtype of ischemic stroke (atrial fibrillation/flutter, ventricular aneurysm, ets.).
  2. Hemorrhagic stroke
  3. NIHSS score ≤5.
  4. Hospitalization of the patient more than 48 hours from the onset of the disease.
  5. Severe anemia, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia.
  6. Course of an infectious/viral disease.
  7. Concomitant treatment with moderate or strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (clarithromycin, erythromycin, telithromycin, other macrolide antibiotics, ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, ritonavir, atazanavir, indinavir, other HIV protease inhibitors, verapamil or pilitin disulfazole) inhibitors (cyclosporine) at randomization.
  8. Concomitant severe degenerative disease of the nervous system.
  9. Concomitant inflammatory or autoimmune disease.
  10. Dementia, established mental illness.
  11. History of malignancy, known hepatitis B or C, or HIV infection.
  12. Swallowing impairment interfering with oral administration of the study drug.
  13. Pregnancy or breastfeeding. Women of child-bearing potential who are not willing to use a medically accepted method of contraception that is considered reliable in the judgment of the Investigator.
  14. Participation in another clinical study with an investigational product at any time during the 30 days prior to randomization
  15. Previous enrolment or randomization in the present study.
  16. Decrease renal function with creatinine clearance \< 30 ml/min.
  17. Presence of contraindications to taking colchicine, acetylsalicylic acid and clopidogrel.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Colchicine Group

    All patients in this arm will receive colchicine for 14 days in addition to standard medical care without clopidogrel (acetylsalicylic acid, lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, gastroprotective, hypoglycemic drugs if necessary, lifestyle recommendations, early rehabilitation activities).

    Drug: Colchicine

  • Active comparator
    Clopidogrel treatment group

    All patients in this arm will receive standard treatment including clopidogrel.

    Drug: Clopidogrel

Interventions

  • DrugColchicine

    Oral colchicine will be initiated with a dose of 0.5 mg per day during 14 days. Acetylsalicylic acid was used as an antiplatelet agent (300 mg on days 1 and continuing with 100 mg/day).

  • DrugClopidogrel

    Dual antiplatelet therapy includes ASA (300 mg on days 1 and continuing with 100 mg/day) and clopidogrel (300 mg on days 1 and continuing with 75 mg/day).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Any new stroke events

    Incidence of any new ischemic stroke.

    Time frame: any time within 14 days

  2. Neurological deterioration

    Neurological deterioration, defined as an increase in The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) of 2 or more. The NIHSS provides a quantitative measure of stroke-related neurologic deficit. The higher the score, the more severe the neurological deficit.

    Time frame: any time within 14 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. New vascular events

    Incidence of any new vascular events, including ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction and vascular death

    Time frame: any time within 14 days

  2. Bleeding event

    Bleeding event that is categorised as severe according to GUSTO (Global Utilization Of Streptokinase And Tpa For Occluded Arteries) bleeding criteria.

    Time frame: any time within 14 days

  3. Positive functional outcome

    A positive functional outcome within 14 days is determined if the Modified Rankin Score (mRS) improves to 0-1 and/or Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI) to 14 -15 points and/or Rehabilitation Routing Scale 0 -1 points. The mRS is a 6 point disability scale with possible scores ranging from 0 to 5. A separate category of 6 is usually added for patients who expire. The RMI includes fifteen mobility items. A maximum score of 15 is possible: higher scores indicate better mobility performance. The rehabilitation routing scale is needed by the doctor to understand whether the patient requires rehabilitation. The maximum number of points is 6. The more points the patient scores, the more severe his condition.

    Time frame: any time within 14 days

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
  • Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseas
    Kemerovo, Kemerovo Region 650002, Russian Federation
    Recruiting
  • Sochi City Hospital #4
    Sochi, Krasnodar Refion 354057, Russian Federation
    • Mikhail Zykov, PhD · Contact · mvz83@mail.ru · +79183062959
    • Vadim Butsev · Sub investigator
    • Natalia Ryazanova · Sub investigator
    • Daria Zykova · Sub investigator
    • Mikhail Zykov, PhD · Principal investigator
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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 Nov 7, 2023, 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
NCT06102720
Lead sponsor
Mikhail Zykov
Responsible party
Mikhail Zykov (Principal Investigator, Research Institute for Complex Problems of Cardiovascular Diseases, Russia) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Oct 26, 2023
Start date
Jan 12, 2023
Primary completion
Jan 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 1, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 7, 2023

Oversight

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