Flow Diverter Versus Conventional Endovascular Treatment for Unruptured Wide-Neck Bifurcation Aneurysms (FD-BWA Trial)

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-75
SponsorNanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University

About this trial

Brief Summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare whether the traditional approach (stent-assisted coiling) is associated with a lower complication rate than flow diverter (Pipeline™) treatment for unruptured intracranial wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms. It will also evaluate the long-term imaging outcomes and safety of both treatments. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does the traditional approach result in a lower rate of any stroke or all-cause death within one year after treatment compared to the flow diverter? * What medical problems do participants experience during and after each treatment? * What are the imaging cure and stability rates at 1, 2, and 5 years after treatment?

Researchers will compare the traditional approach (stent-assisted coiling) with the flow diverter (Pipeline™) to determine which treatment has better safety and efficacy outcomes.

Participants will:

* Be randomly assigned to receive either the flow diverter or traditional stent-assisted coiling * Undergo the assigned endovascular procedure * Return for follow-up visits at 30 days, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and 5 years after surgery for clinical assessments and imaging examinations (DSA, MRA, or CTA)

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Age 18-75 years;

Diagnosis of unruptured intracranial, bifurcation, saccular, wide-neck aneurysm by DSA/CTA/MRA;

Patients who can understand the purpose of the trial, voluntarily participate and sign the informed consent form.

Disqualifiers

Patients with two or more multiple aneurysms that all require treatment within 1 year;

Concomitant cerebrovascular diseases such as arteriovenous malformation, moyamoya disease;

Ruptured aneurysms and narrow-neck aneurysms;

Patients who have had a stroke (cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction) within the past 1 month;

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Flow Diverter Group

    Device

    Flow diversion with the Pipeline™ (Flex/Shield) device for the treatment of unruptured intracranial bifurcation wide-necked aneurysms in the experimental group.

  • Stent Assisted Coiling Group

    Device

    Stent-assisted coiling for the treatment of unruptured intracranial bifurcation wide-necked aneurysms in the control group.

Treatment groups

266 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Stent Assisted Coiling GroupActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Flow Diverter GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Incidence of complications at 1 year postoperatively in patients treated with different modalities.

Any stroke, all-cause death events within 1 year post-surgery. Definitions: 1. Stroke defined as: acute focal or global neurological dysfunction due to vascular injury of brain, spinal cord or retina caused by hemorrhage or infarction, symptom duration ≥24 hours, including symptomatic branch stenosis/occlusion due to branch coverage; 2. TIA: transient focal neurological dysfunction due to brain, spinal cord or retinal ischemia, symptom duration \<24 hours, without acute infarction;

Time frame
1 year

Secondary outcomes

1

Aneurysm occlusion rate and stability rate after different treatment modalities.

Imaging cure rate (Raymond-Roy grade I) at 1, 2, and 5 years post-surgery. Definitions: Raymond-Roy grade: Class I: complete occlusion, no contrast filling in sac or neck; Class II: neck remnant, sac obliterated, contrast in neck; Class III: aneurysm remnant, contrast in sac.

Time frame
5 years

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University

Lead sponsor

Shenzhen Second People's Hospital

Collaborator

Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital

Collaborator

Liv Hospital Ankara

Collaborator

ZhuHai Hospital

Collaborator

West China Hospital

Collaborator

Beijing Tiantan Hospital

Collaborator

Henan Provincial People's Hospital

Collaborator

Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Collaborator

Guangdong Second Provincial People's Hospital

Collaborator

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Collaborator

Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing

Collaborator

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Collaborator