NANJING , China , Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 24, 2024 , TASTE-2, a Chinese innovative stroke drug study led by Professor Wang Yongjun from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, was published in an oral report at the 16 th World Stroke Conference (WSC): brain cell protection combined with edaravone dexborneol (Sanbexin ®) in patients with acute ischemic stroke before endovascular thrombectomy significantly improved the proportion of patients who recovered neurological independence at 90 days and reduced the proportion of patients with disability. Stroke is the leading cause of death and disability in adults in China , and acute ischemic stroke (AIS) accounts for about 70% of all strokes.
Among them, about 40% of patients belong to the risk subtype of large vessel occlusion (LVO), with higher disability and mortality. After stroke, treatment with "reperfusion", which is represented by thrombolysis and thrombectomy, restores blood supply to the brain as soon as possible. Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is an important advance in reperfusion therapy in recent years, which can achieve recanalization in about 70% to 90% of patients with LVO stroke, but only nearly half of patients recover well.
A significant proportion of patients with EVT remain disabled to varying degrees after 90 days of treatment. The oral report on 2024WSC showed that a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled TASTE-2 study enrolled 1362 patients with moderate-severe stroke treated with EVT.