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Clinical trialNCT00487461TerminatedInterventional

Use of Simvastatin for the Prevention of Vasospasm in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

SponsorUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoEnrollment25Aneurysmal Subarachnoid HemorrhageCerebral Vasospasm
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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to test whether treatment with a drug called Simvastatin prevents and improves outcome in patients who have Subarachnoid bleeding. Simvastatin is currently approved for the treatment of high cholesterol levels.
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Investigators

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  • Ali Alaraj, MD

    Clinical Fellow Department of Neurosurgery

    Principal Investigator
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  • Ben Z. Roitberg, MD

    Assnt Prof. Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept of Neurosurgery

    Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, Dept of Neurosurgery

    Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

PlaceboSimvastatin →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 May 2007
Primary completion
28 Feb 2009
Completion
30 Jun 2009
Last update posted
25 Nov 2015
Registered enrollment
25
Registry id
NCT00487461
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.