Clinical trial NCT03825679: Association Between the Composition of the Bacterial Flora of Thrombi and the Etiological Origin of Cerebral Infarction Treated With Thrombectomy
Official title: Association Between the Composition of the Bacterial Flora of Thrombi and the Etiological Origin of Cerebral Infarctions Treated With Thrombectomy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Patient With Symptomatic Cerebral Infarction
Patient Who Has Had a Mechanical Thrombectomy
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-01-31
Enrollment: 45
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patient hospitalized at the Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit at the Dijon University Hospital

Brief summary: Cerebral infarction is a major health problem. The two most common causes are atherosclerosis (30 to 35%) and cardio-embolic origin (35 to 40%). However, in 25% of cases the cause is undetermined, known as cryptogenic stroke or stroke of undetermined origin. Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation appears to cause a significant proportion of these cryptogenic cerebral infarctions. One of the major challenges in the management of cerebral infarctions is the prevention of recurrence. If the cause is atheromatous, treatment is based on platelet antiaggregants and the correction of cardiovascular risk factors. If the cause is atrial fibrillation, the treatment of choice is anticoagulation therapy. Cryptogenic strokes are managed with antiplatelet therapy. In past studies, the thrombi responsible for cerebral infarctions have been analyzed anatomopathologically to see if the composition of the thrombi could help identify the cause of the cerebral infarction. These studies have proved to be contradictory. The composition of the bacterial flora of cerebral infarct thrombi has not yet been studied, apart from some limited data on septic emboli. In myocardial infarction, the cause of which is almost exclusively atheromatous, bacteria of the periodontal flora have been detected in thrombi of ST-segment elevation infarctions. The causes of cerebral infarction are multiple. The hypotheses explored in this study are that there are differences in the composition of the bacterial flora of the thrombus depending on whether the cause is atheromatous or cardio-embolic and that the study of the composition of the thrombus could be used to identify the cardio-embolic cause in patients with cryptogenic cerebral infarction.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Person who has given oral consent (or a close relative or legal representative if the patient is unable to give consent)
* Patient with a symptomatic cerebral infarction defined according to WHO criteria, who has had a mechanical thrombectomy and was hospitalized at the Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit of the Dijon University Hospital.
* 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

* Person not affiliated to national health insurance
* Person under legal protection (curatorship, guardianship)
* Person under court order
* Pregnant or breastfeeding
* Patient who refuses to participate in the study
* Patient (or family member) not reachable by telephone during follow-up.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Bacterial composition of thrombi from cerebral infarctions of atheromatous origin and thrombi of cardio-embolic origin
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
measure: Bacterial composition of cardio-embolic thrombi
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
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Locations:
city: Dijon
country: France
facility: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire
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