# Contact Aspiration Versus Stent Retriever for Recanalisation of Acute Stroke Patients With Basilar Artery Occlusion: The Posterior Circulation ASTER Randomized Trial Protocol

> **NCT05320263** · NA · RECRUITING · sponsor: **Hopital Foch** · enrollment: 480 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Basilar Artery Occlusion

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Contact aspiration Thrombectomy
- **PROCEDURE:** Stent retriever thrombectomy

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT05320263
- **Lead sponsor:** Hopital Foch
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2022-11-19
- **Primary completion:** 2026-07
- **Final completion:** 2027-07
- **Target enrollment:** 480 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2023-03-01


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05320263

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT05320263, "Contact Aspiration Versus Stent Retriever for Recanalisation of Acute Stroke Patients With Basilar Artery Occlusion: The Posterior Circulation ASTER Randomized Trial Protocol". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT05320263. Licensed CC0.

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