In stroke patients, Cerebrolysin treatment effects on symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation showed moderate heterogeneity.
In plain wordsIn stroke patients, Cerebrolysin effects on symptomatic bleeding showed moderate variation.
- Peptide
- Cerebrolysin
- Outcome
- Not applicableSymptomatic HT treatment heterogeneity
- Study
n = 238
- Outcome group
- Adverse events · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- I2
- 36.98 to 69.3%
- symptomatic HT
- H2
- 1.59 to 3.26
- symptomatic HT
Source sentences
Heterogeneity of Cerebrolysin treatment effects was moderate (I2=36.98-69.3%, H2=1.59-3.26) and mild (I2=18.33-32.39%, H2=1.22-1.48) for symptomatic and any HT, respectively.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
It was post hoc analysis of the CEREHETIS trial (ISRCTN87656744).
Patients with middle cerebral artery infarction (n=238) were stratified by HT risk with the HTI score.
The study outcomes were symptomatic and any HT, and functional outcome measured with the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) on day 90.