Estimating Perfusion Deficits in Acute Stroke Patients Without Perfusion Imaging.
Citation: Stroke. :101161STROKEAHA121038101, 2022 Jul 22PMID: 35866426Institution: MedStar Washington Hospital CenterDepartment: NeurologyForm of publication: Journal ArticleMedline article type(s): Journal ArticleSubject headings: IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXEDYear: 2022Local holdings: Available online from MWHC library: 1970 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006ISSN:- 0039-2499
- Hsia, Amie W:
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-9736
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Available online from MWHC library: 1970 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006
BACKGROUND: Perfusion weighted imaging (PWI) is critical for determining whether stroke patients presenting in an extended time window are candidates for mechanical thrombectomy. However, PWI is not always available. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintense vessels (FHVs) are seen in patients with a PWI lesion. We investigated whether a scale measuring the extent FHV could serve as a surrogate for PWI to determine eligibility for thrombectomy.
CONCLUSIONS: The NIH-FHV score provides an estimate of the PWI lesion volume and, when combined with diffusion weighted imaging, may be helpful when trying to determine whether there is a clinically relevant diffusion-perfusion mismatch in situations where perfusion imaging is not available. Further studies are needed to validate this approach.
METHODS: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) FHV score was developed to quantify the burden of FHV and applied to magnetic resonance imaging scans of stroke patients with fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and perfusion imaging. The NIH-FHV was combined with the diffusion weighted image volume to estimate the diffusion-perfusion mismatch ratio. Linear regression was used to compare PWI volumes and mismatch ratios with estimates from the NIH-FHV score. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to test the ability of the NIH-FHV score to identify a significant mismatch.
RESULTS: There were 101 patients included in the analysis, of whom 78% had a perfusion deficit detected on PWI with a mean lesion volume of 47 (+/-59) mL. The NIH-FHV score was strongly associated with the PWI lesion volume (P<0.001; R2=0.32; beta-coefficient, 0.57). When combined with diffusion weighted image lesion volume, receiver operating characteristic analysis testing the ability to detect a mismatch ratio >=1.8 using the NIH-FHV score resulted in an area under the curve of 0.94.
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