In patients with hemispheric ischemic stroke, endolumbar then dropwise cerebrolysin significantly improved functional recovery versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn patients with ischemic stroke, cerebrolysin injections improved functional recovery compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Cerebrolysin
- Outcome
- IncreaseFunctional recovery
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Exercise and physical function · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 5 ml endolumbar injection followed by 10 ml dropwise injections · Endolumbar followed by dropwise injectionsAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
One endolumbar C injection (5 ml) made in the first 12 hours of stroke and after the subsequent therapy with dropwise C injections (10 ml) significantly enhanced the efficiency of therapy and improved the functional recovery of patients was observed 12 hours following.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The purpose of the investigation was to evaluate the efficiency of therapy of patients with hemispheric ischemic stroke with cerebrolysin (C) (using two different regimens of its injections) versus placebo.