Preoperative cerebral angiography nearly doubles the rate of diffusion-weighted imaging lesion detection following minimally invasive surgery for intracerebral hemorrhage.
Christina P RossittoVikram VasanMargaret H DownesSema YildizColton J SmithJohn W LiangAlexander J SchupperTrevor HardiganXinyan LiuMuhammad AliEmily K ChapmanAlex DevarajanIan C OdlandChristopher Paul KellnerJ D MoccoPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2023)
In this cohort of ICH patients who underwent minimally invasive evacuation, preprocedural angiography was associated with the presence of DWI lesions on post-ICH evacuation MRI. Furthermore, the burden of DWI lesions portends a worse prognosis after ICH.
Keyphrases
- diffusion weighted imaging
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- minimally invasive
- end stage renal disease
- optical coherence tomography
- computed tomography
- chronic kidney disease
- diffusion weighted
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance
- prognostic factors
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- blood brain barrier
- cerebral ischemia