Contrast-enhanced MR angiography improves detection of carotid-T occlusion by acute stroke MRI

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-167

  Saager, Christian ^a   Fitting, Thies ^a   Goebell, Einar ^b   Thomalla, Götz ^a   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Kucinski, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Klinik Nord Heidberg   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carotid artery thrombosis; Cerebrovascular accident; Contrast media; Magnetic resonance imaging; Thrombolytic therapy

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROKE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 56549113313     PISSN: 09397116     EISSN: 16156706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-008-8020-x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Ringelstein EB, Biniek R, Weiller C, Ammeling B, Nolte PN, Thron A. Type and extent of hemispheric brain infarctions and clinical outcome in early and delayed middle cerebral artery recanalization. Neurology 1992;42:289-98.
2. Kummer R von, Hacke W. Safety and efficacy of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and heparin in acute middle cerebral artery stroke. Stroke 1992;23:646-52.
3. Kucinski T, Koch C, Eckert B, Becker V, Kromer H, Heesen C, Grzyska U, Freitag HJ, Rother J, Zeumer H. Collateral circulation is an independent radiological predictor of outcome after thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke. Neuroradiology 2003;45:11-8.
4. Schellinger P, Jansen O, Fiebach JB, Heiland S, Steiner T, Schwab S, Pohlers O, Ryssel H, Sartor K, Hacke W. Monitoring intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke with diffusion and perfusion MRI. Stroke 2000;31:1318-28.
5. Warach S. Use of diffusion and perfusion magnetic resonance imaging as a tool in acute stroke clinical trials. Curr Control Trials Cardiovasc Med 2001;2:38-44.
6. Donnan GA, Davis SM. Neuroimaging, the ischaemic penumbra, and selection of patients for acute stroke therapy. Lancet Neurol 2002;1:417-25.
7. von Kummer R, Holle R, Rosin L, Forsting M, Hacke W. Does arterial recanalization improve outcome in carotid territory stroke? Stroke 1995;26:581-7.
8. Arnold M, Nedeltchev K, Mattle H, Loher TJ, Stepper F, Schroth G, Brekenfeld C, Sturzenegger M, Remonda L. Intra-arterial thrombolysis in 24 consecutive patients with internal carotid artery T occlusions. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:739-42.
9. Kucinski T, Koch C, Grzyska U, Freitag H, Kromer H, Zeumer H. The predictive value of early CT and angiography for fatal hemispheric swelling in acute stroke. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1998;19:839-46.
10. Urbach H, Hartmann A, Pohl C, Omran H, Wilhelm K, Flacke S, Schild HH, Klockgether T. Local intra-arterial thrombolysis in the carotid territory: does recanalization depend on the thromboembolus type? Neuroradiology 2002;44:695-9.
11. Sasaki O, Takeuchi S, Koike T, Koizumi T, Tanaka R. Fibrinolytic therapy for acute embolic stroke: intravenous, intracarotid, and intra-arterial local approaches. Neurosurgery 1995;36:246-52, discussion 252-3.
12. Kucinski T, Fiehler J. MRI in acute stroke. Klin Neuroradiol 2004;14:56-63.
13. Fiehler J, Knudsen K, Thomalla G, Goebell E, Rosenkranz M, Weiller C, Rother J, Zeumer H, Kucinski T. Vascular occlusion sites determine differences in lesion growth from early apparent diffusion coefficient lesion to final infarct. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2005;26:1056-61.
14. Jansen O, von Kummer R, Forsting M, Hacke W, Sartor K. Thrombolytic therapy in acute occlusion of the intracranial internal carotid artery bifurcation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1995;16:1977-86.
15. Thomalla G, Kucinski T, Schoder V, Fiehler J, Knab R, Zeumer H, Weiller C, Rother J. Prediction of malignant middle cerebral artery infarction by early perfusion- and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Stroke 2003;34:1892-9.
16. Geisler B, Rother J, Kucinski T, Zeumer H, Eckert B. Emergency carotid artery stenting in persistent hemodynamic deficit associated with severe carotid stenosis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2005;26:549-52.