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Prognostic Value of a New Integrated Parameter—Both Collateral Circulation and Permeability Surface—in Hemorrhagic Transformation of Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Acute Ischemic Stroke: Retrospective Cohort Study

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multimodal CT, including CT angiography (CTA) and CT perfusion (CTP), was increasingly used in stroke triage. This study was to determine the relationship between a new integrated parameter—both collateral circulation and relative permeability surface (PS)—and the hemorrhagic transformation (HT) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO).

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed consecutive AIS patients with MCAO who underwent baseline CTA/CTP within 4 h of symptom onset and follow-up susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) within 3 weeks. Collateral circulation was assessed on the baseline CTA. Baseline CTP data were postprocessed to generate PS parameter. The patients with poor collateral circulation and at the same time with high relative PS were classified as the group of both poor collateral circulation and high relative PS. HT was defined according to European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study II criteria on follow-up SWI imaging. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed using HT as an outcome variable.

Results

The group of patients with both poor collateral circulation and high relative PS was thirteen and thirty-three (52%) developed HT of the final cohort sixty-three AIS patients with MCAO. Multivariate logistic analysis revealed the new integrated parameter—both collateral circulation and relative PS (odds ratio, 16.59; 95% confidence interval, 13.09–19.10; P < 0.001) was independent predictor of HT. The area under the curve was 0.85 (95% confidence interval, 0.81–0.89). The sensitivity was 57%, specificity 97% and positive predictive value 92%, negative predictive value 58%.

Conclusions

For AIS patients with MCAO, these with poor collateral circulation on CTA and at the same time with high relative PS on CTP were at high risk for HT.

SUBMITTER: Li C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424095 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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