Preventing cognitive decline and dementia from cerebral small vessel disease: The LACI-1 Trial. Protocol and statistical analysis plan of a phase IIa dose escalation trial testing tolerability, safety and effect on intermediary endpoints of isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol, separately and in combination

Blair, Gordon W., Appleton, Jason P., Law, Zhe Kang, Doubal, Fergus, Flaherty, Katie, Dooley, Richard, Shuler, Kirsten, Richardson, Carla, Hamilton, Iona, Shi, Yulu, Stringer, Michael, Boyd, Julia, Thrippleton, Michael J., Sprigg, Nikola, Bath, Philip M.W. and Wardlaw, Joanna M. (2018) Preventing cognitive decline and dementia from cerebral small vessel disease: The LACI-1 Trial. Protocol and statistical analysis plan of a phase IIa dose escalation trial testing tolerability, safety and effect on intermediary endpoints of isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol, separately and in combination. International Journal of Stroke, 13 (5). pp. 530-538. ISSN 1747-4949

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Abstract

Rationale

The pathophysiology of most lacunar stroke, a form of small vessel disease, is thought to differ from large artery atherothrombo- or cardio-embolic stroke. Licensed drugs, isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol, have promising mechanisms of action to support their testing to prevent stroke recurrence, cognitive impairment, or radiological progression after lacunar stroke.

Aim

LACI-1 will assess the tolerability, safety, and efficacy, by dose, of isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol, alone and in combination, in patients with ischemic lacunar stroke.

Sample size

A sample of 60 provides 80+% power (significance 0.05) to detect a difference of 35% (90% versus 55%) between those reaching target dose on one versus both drugs.

Methods and design

LACI-1 is a phase IIa partial factorial, dose-escalation, prospective, randomized, open label, blinded endpoint trial. Participants are randomized to isosorbide mononitrate and/or cilostazol for 11 weeks with dose escalation to target as tolerated in two centers (Edinburgh, Nottingham). At three visits, tolerability, safety, blood pressure, pulse wave velocity, and platelet function are assessed, plus magnetic resonance imaging to assess cerebrovascular reactivity in a subgroup.

Study outcomes

Primary: proportion of patients completing study achieving target maximum dose.

Secondary

Symptoms whilst taking medications; safety (hemorrhage, recurrent vascular events, falls); blood pressure, platelet function, arterial stiffness, and cerebrovascular reactivity.

Discussion

This study will inform the design of a larger phase III trial of isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol in lacunar stroke, whilst providing data on the drugs’ effects on vascular and platelet function.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/943177
Additional Information: Copyright © 2017 by World Stroke Organization
Keywords: Lacunar stroke, Small vessel disease, Cilostazol, Isosorbide mononitrate, Endothelium, Blood–brain barrier, White matter hyperintensities, Cerebrovascular reactivity
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Clinical Neuroscience
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493017731947
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2017 12:44
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:43
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/47047

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