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Neurology 1999;52:1125
© 1999 American Academy of Neurology


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Absent middle cerebral artery flow predicts the presence and evolution of the ischemic penumbra

P. A. Barber, FRACP, S. M. Davis, MD, FRACP, D. G. Darby, PhD, FRACP, P. M. Desmond, MSc, FRACR, R. P. Gerraty, MD, FRACP, Q. Yang, PhD, D. Jolley, MSc, G. A. Donnan, MD, FRACP and B. M. Tress, MD, FRACR

From the Departments of Neurology (Drs. Barber, Darby, Gerraty, and Davis) and Radiology (Drs. Desmond, Yang, and Tress), The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (Drs. Donnan, Tress, and Davis) and Public Health and Community Medicine (D. Jolley), University of Melbourne, Australia.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Stephen Davis, Director of Neurology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic 3050, Australia.

OBJECTIVES: In acute ischemic stroke the pattern of a perfusion-imaging (PI) lesion larger than the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesion may be a marker of the ischemic penumbra. We hypothesized that acute middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion would predict the presence of presumed "penumbral" patterns (PI > DWI), ischemic core evolution, and stroke outcome.

METHODS: Echoplanar PI, DWI, and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) were performed in 26 patients with MCA territory stroke. Imaging and clinical studies (Canadian Neurological Scale, Barthel Index, and Rankin Scale) were performed within 24 hours of onset and repeated at days 4 and 90.

RESULTS: MCA flow was absent in 9 of 26 patients. This was associated with larger acute PI and DWI lesions, greater PI/DWI mismatch, early DWI lesion expansion, larger final infarct size, worse clinical outcome (p < 0.01) and provided independent prognostic information (multiple linear regression analysis, p < 0.05). Acute penumbral patterns were present in 14 of 26 patients. Most of these patients (9 of 14) had no MCA flow, whereas all nonpenumbral patients (PI <= DWI lesion) had MCA flow (p < 0.001). Penumbral-pattern patients with absent MCA flow had greater DWI lesion expansion (p < 0.05) and worse clinical outcome (Rankin Scale score, p < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS: Absent MCA flow on MRA predicts the presence of a presumed penumbral pattern on acute PI and DWI and worse stroke outcome. Combined MRA, PI, and DWI can identify individual patients at risk of ischemic core progression and the potential to respond to thrombolytic therapy beyond 3 hours.




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