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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN57438091
Date of registration: 23/08/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Public title: Intravenous bisphosphonates in the prevention of osteoporosis associated with stroke
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Date of first enrolment: 01/10/2001
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN57438091
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Prevention)  
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Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
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Name: Elizabeth    Warburton
Address:  Department of Clinical Neurosciences Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road CB2 2QQ Cambridge United Kingdom
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: For inclusion, males and females aged 40-89 will be approached as soon as possible after admission with first ever stroke. Patients will be eligible if they were previously independently walking, have clinical and computed tomography (CT) evidence of stroke (haemorrhagic or ischaemic), are unable to walk 1 week following stroke (Functional Ambulatory Category [FAC] 0 or 1) and can give written informed consent to the study.
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria are as follows:
A. Not walking independently prior to stroke/previous stroke causing hemiplegia
B. Stroke not affecting the lower limb/FAC >1 at 1 week post stroke/posterior circulation stroke
C. Unconsciousness or terminal illness
D. Pre-existing dementia or cognitive impariment
E. Aphasia/significant language impairment
F. Renal/hepatic impairment
G. Aged <40 and >89
H. Prior treatment with a bisphosphonate, corticosteroids/known osteoporosis/unilateral bone disease affecting BMD/prior hip fracture or osteosynthetic material at the hip (e.g. hip replacement)
I. Unable to randomise and give infusion within 35 days of stroke (e.g. tertiary referrals from another hospital)
J. Current treatment with an aminoglycoside antibiotic


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Stroke and osteoporosis
Circulatory System
Stroke and osteoporosis
Intervention(s)
Intravenous zoledronate 4 mg versus placebo.
Primary Outcome(s)
Bone mineral density at the hemiplegic hip 12 months following stroke.
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Bone mineral density at the unaffected hip 12 months following stroke
2. Histomorphometric analysis of bone biopsies from stroke patients treated with zoledronate or placebo
Secondary ID(s)
LREC 01/245
Source(s) of Monetary Support
National Osteoporosis Society (UK) RG33985
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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