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Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Adjunctive TBO-309 in Reperfusion for Stroke With Tandem Occlusion

Co-STAR is a multicenter, prospective, open-label, Bayesian Optimal Phase 2 (BOP2) trial that aims to assess the safety and efficacy of adjunctive intravenous TBO-309 in Acute Ischaemic Stroke (AIS) patients with tandem occlusion receiving intra-cranial endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) and acute extracranial carotid artery stenting. Co-STARS study will test the hypothesis that patients with tandem occlusion treated with EVT and acute stenting in conjunction with TBO-309 will: * have persistent stent patency without requiring rescue therapy with GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors and * not experience high rates of symptomatic intra-cranial haemorrhage (sICH). Patients with tandem occlusion undergoing EVT and acute stenting will receive intravenous TBO-309 bolus and infusion. TBO-309 is a potent, selective and ATP competitive PI3K\[beta\] inhibitor which reduces platelet activation adhesion/aggregation particularly under conditions of disturbed blood flow and promotes platelet disaggregation. By targeting PI3K\[beta\], TBO-309 specifically inhibits thrombosis whilst minimizing the impact on normal hemostasis.

Thrombectomy In TANdem Occlusion

Tandem occlusion is defined by an acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with concomitant steno-occlusive disease of the extra cranial carotid artery and concerned about 10% of AIS patients. Whereas endovascular treatment has shown its efficiency in AIS by large vessel occlusion (LVO), to date, there is no consensus on the endovascular management of the extra cranial carotid artery in tandem occlusion. Only few of them were included in previous randomized trials who evaluated mechanical thrombectomy and were often listed in the non-inclusion criteria. Therapeutic management of this population was not specifically addressed in recent trials. Endovascular management can be complex with the need of acute stenting of the extra cranial carotid lesion along with the potential need of antithrombotic therapy initiation, the benefit and the safety of stenting of the cervical lesion in acute phase of AIS have shown encouraging results but however remains to be assessed. The TITAN (Thrombectomy In TANdem lesion) trial aims to demonstrate the superiority of the combined use of intracranial thrombectomy and extracranial carotid stenting compared to intracranial thrombectomy alone on the complete reperfusion rate in patients with acute ischemic stroke due to tandem lesion.