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ESOC 2026 | Key trials presented at ESOC 2026

Aristeidis Katsanos, MD, PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, outlines the key trials presented at ESOC 2026. He mentions the HOPE (NCT04892511), TECNO (NCT05499832), GALLOP (NCT06788626), and OCEANIC (NCT05686070) trials. This interview took place at the 12th European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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Yeah, very exciting stuff. So most of the trials that are presented at ESOC, they have to do with thrombectomy. So HOPE is about the blood pressure control after thrombectomy, very exciting and still an open topic. Also, the TECNO trial is testing adjunct intra-arterial tenecteplase for people that they don’t recanalize completely after thrombectomy. There are other trials, such as the GALLOP trial, which is very close to my research interest, testing GLP-1 receptor agonists for improving patient outcomes...

Yeah, very exciting stuff. So most of the trials that are presented at ESOC, they have to do with thrombectomy. So HOPE is about the blood pressure control after thrombectomy, very exciting and still an open topic. Also, the TECNO trial is testing adjunct intra-arterial tenecteplase for people that they don’t recanalize completely after thrombectomy. There are other trials, such as the GALLOP trial, which is very close to my research interest, testing GLP-1 receptor agonists for improving patient outcomes. And there is also a very nice result from the OCEANIC stroke trial presented by one of my colleagues and PI of the trial, Dr Mike Sharma.

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