Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Foothills Hospital, Room 1242A, 1403 29th St. NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 2T9, Canada.
Stroke. 2011 Jun;42(6):1621-5. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.610980. Epub 2011 May 5.
The Albumin in Acute Stroke (ALIAS) Part 2 Trial is directly testing whether 2 g/kg of 25% human albumin (ALB) administered intravenously within 5 hours of ischemic stroke onset results in improved clinical outcome. Recruitment into Part 1 of the ALIAS Trial was halted for safety reasons. ALIAS Part 2 is a new, reformulated trial with more-stringent exclusion criteria. Our aim was to explore the efficacy of ALB in the ALIAS Part 1 data and to assess the statistical assumptions underlying the ALIAS Part 2 Trial.
ALIAS is a multicenter, blinded, randomized controlled trial. Data on 434 subjects, comprising the ALIAS Part 1 subjects, were analyzed. We examined both the thrombolysis and nonthrombolysis cohorts combined and separately in a "target population" by excluding subjects who would not have been eligible for the ALIAS Part 2 Trial; the latter comprised patients >83 years of age, those with elevated baseline troponin values, and those with in-hospital stroke. We examined the differences in the primary composite outcome, defined as a modified Rankin Scale score of 0 to 1 and/or a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of 0 to 1 at 90 days after randomization.
In the combined thrombolysis plus nonthrombolysis cohorts of the target population, 44.7% of subjects in the ALB group had a favorable outcome compared with 36.0% in the saline group (absolute effect size=8.7%; 95% CI, -2.2% to 19.5%). Among thrombolyzed subjects of the target population, 46.7% had a favorable outcome in the ALB group compared with 36.6% in the saline group (absolute effect size=10.1%; 95% CI, -2.0% to 20.0%).
Preliminary results from the ALIAS Part 1 suggest a trend toward a favorable primary outcome in subjects treated with ALB and support the validity of the statistical assumptions that underlie the ALIAS Part 2 Trial. The ALIAS Part 2 Trial will confirm or refute these results.
URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ALIAS. Unique identifier: NCT00235495.
Albumin in Acute Stroke(ALIAS)第 2 部分试验直接测试了在缺血性卒中发作后 5 小时内静脉内给予 2 克/公斤 25%人白蛋白(ALB)是否导致临床结局改善。由于安全性原因,ALIAS 第 1 部分的入组被停止。ALIAS 第 2 部分是一项新的、重新设计的试验,具有更严格的排除标准。我们的目的是探讨 ALB 在 ALIAS 第 1 部分数据中的疗效,并评估 ALIAS 第 2 部分试验的统计假设。
ALIAS 是一项多中心、盲法、随机对照试验。对包含 ALIAS 第 1 部分受试者的 434 例受试者的数据进行了分析。我们通过排除不符合 ALIAS 第 2 部分试验条件的受试者,在“目标人群”中同时和分别对溶栓和非溶栓队列进行了研究;后者包括年龄>83 岁的患者、基线肌钙蛋白值升高的患者和住院期间发生卒中的患者。我们检查了主要复合结局的差异,该结局定义为随机分组后 90 天时改良 Rankin 量表评分 0-1 分和/或国立卫生研究院卒中量表评分 0-1 分。
在目标人群的溶栓加非溶栓联合队列中,ALB 组 44.7%的受试者有良好的结局,而生理盐水组为 36.0%(绝对效应大小=8.7%;95%CI,-2.2%至 19.5%)。在目标人群的溶栓患者中,ALB 组 46.7%的受试者有良好的结局,而生理盐水组为 36.6%(绝对效应大小=10.1%;95%CI,-2.0%至 20.0%)。
ALIAS 第 1 部分的初步结果表明,接受 ALB 治疗的受试者有良好结局的趋势,并支持 ALIAS 第 2 部分试验的统计假设的有效性。ALIAS 第 2 部分试验将证实或反驳这些结果。