Evaluation of the role of susceptibility-weighted imaging in thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke

Publication date: Available online 20 February 2017 Source:Journal of Clinical Neuroscience Author(s): Guangjian Zhao, Ling Sun, Ziran Wang, Liquan Wang, Zhongrong Cheng, Hongyan Lei, Daiqun Yang, Yansen Cui, Shirui Zhang We inspected low-intensity venous signals and microbleeds in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) before and after administration of within-thrombolytic-time-window thrombolytic therapies, and observed their prognosis and safety, in order to guide individualized thrombolytic therapies. Patients with AIS were divided into groups A or B according to the presence of symmetric or asymmetric veins on SWI, and were re-inspected by SWI after intravenous thrombolysis using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). The National Institutes of Health stroke scale (NIHSS) score before treatment and at 1-h and 24-h posttreatment in the two groups were 11.9, 7.3, and 7.1 in group A, 12.4, 8.2, and 7.9 in group B, significant difference was detected between the two groups after treatment. The 90-day mortality rate was 0, and the incidences of cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and symptomatic cerebral hemorrhage (SCH) were 17.6%, and 0% in group A, 25.6% and 0% in group B, respectively. The incidences of CMBs and SCH in group A were lower than those in group B, but the intergroup differences were not statistically significant (P >0.05). The 90-day neurological improvement rates in the two groups were 70.2%...
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research