Whole-brain CT Perfusion at Admission and During Delayed Time-window Detects the Delayed Cerebral Ischemia in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the utility of computed tomography perfusion (CTP) both at admission and during delayed cerebral ischemia time-window (DCITW) in the detection of delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) and the change in CTP parameters from admission to DCITW following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Methods

Eighty patients underwent CTP at admission and during DCITW. The mean and extreme values of all CTP parameters at admission and during DCITW were compared between the DCI group and non-DCI group, and comparisons were also made between admission and DCITW within each group. The qualitative color-coded perfusion maps were recorded. Finally, the relationship between CTP parameters and DCI was assessed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses.

Results

With the exception of cerebral blood volume (P=0.295, admission; P=0.682, DCITW), there were significant differences in the mean quantitative CTP parameters between DCI and non-DCI patients both at admission and during DCITW. In the DCI group, the extreme parameters were significantly different between admission and DCITW. The DCI group also showed a deteriorative trend in the qualitative color-coded perfusion maps. For the detection of DCI, mean transit time to the center of the impulse response function (Tmax) at admission and mean time to start (TTS) during DCITW had the largest area under curve (AUC), 0.698 and 0.789, respectively.

Conclusion

Whole-brain CTP can predict the occurrence of DCI at admission and diagnose DCI during DCITW. The extreme quantitative parameters and qualitative color-coded perfusion maps can better reflect the perfusion changes of patients with DCI from admission to DCITW.

Keywords

aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage / delayed cerebral ischemia / admission / time window / computed tomography perfusion

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