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CT Perfusion Maps Improve Detection of M2-MCA Occlusions in Acute Ischemic Stroke
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CT Perfusion Maps Improve Detection of M2-MCA Occlusions in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Girish Bathla, Ravishankar Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Neetu Soni, Minako Hayakawa, Sarv Priya, Edgar Samaniego, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez and Colin P Derdeyn
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases, Vol.31(6), pp.106473-106473
06/2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2022.106473
PMID: 35430510

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Abstract

•Combined CTA and CTP improves accuracy for detection of M2 MCA occlusions.•At the same time, it also decreases the interpretation time.•Simultaneous use of CTP with CTA is beneficial in stroke imaging. Middle cerebral artery occlusions, particularly M2 branch occlusions are challenging to identify on CTA. We hypothesized that additional review of the CTP maps will increase large vessel occlusion (LVO) detection accuracy on CTA and reduce interpretation time. Two readers (R1 and R2) retrospectively reviewed the CT studies in 99 patients (27 normal, 26 M1-MCA, 46 M2-MCA occlusions) who presented with suspected acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The time of interpretation and final diagnosis were recorded for the CTA images (derived from CTP data), both without and with the CTP maps. The time for analysis for all vascular occlusions was compared using McNemar tests. ROC curve analysis and McNemar tests were performed to assess changes in diagnostic performance with the addition of CTP maps. With the addition of the CTP maps, both readers showed increased sensitivity (p = 0.01 for R1 and p = 0.04 for R2), and accuracy (p = 0.02 for R1 and p = 0.004 for R2) for M2-MCA occlusions. There was a significant improvement in diagnostic performance for both readers for detection of M2-MCA occlusions (AUC R1 = 0.86 to 0.95, R2 = 0.84 to 0.95; p < 0.05). Both readers showed reduced interpretation time for all cases combined, as well as for normal studies (p < 0.001) when CTP images were reviewed along with CTA. Both readers also showed reduced interpretation time for M2-MCA occlusions, which was significant for one of the readers (p < 0.02). The addition of CTP maps improves accuracy and reduces interpretation time for detecting LVO and M2-MCA occlusions in AIS. Incorporation of CTP in acute stroke imaging protocols may improve detection of more distal occlusions.
 CT angiography CT perfusion Ischemic stroke Large vessel occlusion Thrombectomy

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