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Completed Phase 3 Interventional

Efficacy and Safety Trial of Transcranial Laser Therapy Within 24 Hours From Stroke Onset (NEST-3)

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01120301

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Official title

NeuroThera® Efficacy and Safety Trial - 3 (NEST-3) A Double-blind, Randomized, Sham-controlled, Parallel Group, Multicenter, Pivotal Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Transcranial Laser Therapy With the NeuroThera® Laser System for the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke Within 24 Hours of Stroke Onset

Brief summary

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The purpose of this pivotal study is to demonstrate safety and efficacy of transcranial laser therapy (TLT) with the NeuroThera® Laser System in the treatment of subjects diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke. The initiation of the TLT procedure must be feasible for each subject between 4.5 and 24 hours of stroke onset.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01120301
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Lead sponsor
PhotoThera, Inc
Industry
Enrollment
1,000 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Device

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
40 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Sep 2010 (Type not available)
Primary completion
Sep 2012 (Actual)
Completion
Not listed
Last update posted
Nov 15, 2013

Started 2010

United States locations

U.S. sites
26
U.S. states
16
U.S. cities
26
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Alabama Birmingham Birmingham Alabama 35294 —
Sparks Regional Medical Center Fort Smith Arkansas 72901 —
Scripps Encinitas Hospital Encinitas California 92024 —
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Newport Beach California 92658 —
Stanford Stroke Center Palo Alto California 94304 —
Munroe Regional Medical Center Ocala Florida 34474 —
Gwinnett Medical Center Duluth Georgia 30096 —
Gwinnett Medical Center Lawrenceville Georgia 30045 —
Parkview Hospital Fort Wayne Indiana 46805 —
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02114 —
UMass Memorial Medical Center Worcester Massachusetts 01655 —
Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology Robbinsdale Minnesota 55422 —
Saint Lukes Hospital Kansas City Missouri 64111 —
University of Washington St. Louis St Louis Missouri 63110 —
Mission Hospital/Mission Neurology Services Asheville North Carolina 28801 —
University of North Carolina Healthcare Chapel Hill North Carolina 27514 —
Guilford Neuro/The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Greensboro North Carolina 27401 —
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio 44195 —
Oregon Health Sciences University Portland Oregon 97239 —
Erlanger Health System Chattanooga Tennessee 37403 —
The Methodist Hospital Houston Texas 77030 —
INOVA Hospital Falls Church Virginia 22042 —
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Norfolk Virginia 23507 —
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Roanoke Virginia 24014 —
Winchester Medical Center Winchester Virginia 22601 —
Harborview Medical Center Seattle Washington 98104 —

Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.

Non-U.S. locations

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About this trial record page

What this page shows
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What this page does not do
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