In the URICO-ICTUS trial, a multicenter, randomized, double blind, phase 2b/3 trial, patients that received uric acid in combination with alteplase (<4.5 h) did not improve outcomes at 90 days, but in a sensitivity analyses, a borderline significance was seen in patients with uric acid treatment who experienced an ordinal shift in mRS, decreasing their residual disability by a median of 1 point on the mRS compared to the placebo group ( 107 ).
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The ESCAPE-NA1 trial failed to achieve significance in its primary outcome for the overall study population most likely due to proteolysis of nerinetide by the plasmin generated by alteplase.