The Journal of Medical Investigation
Online ISSN : 1349-6867
Print ISSN : 1343-1420
ISSN-L : 1343-1420
Evaluation of the Ischemic Penumbra and Prognosis in acute Cerebral Infarction Using Cerebral Blood Flow and Delay Time Derived from Multi-delay pCASL Imaging
Mihoko SasaharaMoriaki YamanakaTomoki MatsushitaTakashi AbeMaki OtomoYuki YamamotoNobuaki YamamotoYasuhisa KanematsuYuishin IzumiYasushi TakagiMitsuharu MiyoshiMasafumi Harada
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2024 Volume 71 Issue 3.4 Pages 286-292

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Purpose:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ischemic penumbra and prognosis in acute cerebral infarction using cerebral blood flow (CBF) and delay time (DT) derived from multi-delay pseudo-continuous arterial spin-labeling (pCASL) imaging and to estimate the possible use of such indices to predict prognosis. Method:Our subjects comprised 25 patients who were diagnosed with cerebral infarction in our stroke center between September 2017 and December 2018 and underwent pCASL perfusion MRI. The time from onset to MRI was 0.6 to 20 h (mean, 6 h) and was less than 4.5 h in 16 patients. Twelve patients received conservative treatment, three were treated with tPA, and the remaining 10 patients underwent invasive treatment (e.g., thrombectomy). They were subdivided by recanalization:18 patients were non-recanalized and 7 were recanalized. We evaluated the mean cerebral blood flow (CBF) and mean arterial transit DT at the infarct core and penumbra and the infarct size at the initial and follow-up examinations and calculated the infarct enlargement ratio (ER) from the initial and final infarct sizes. We also assessed clinical prognosis by using the initial and final NIHSS scores. We investigated the relationship among the ASL, ER, and NIHSS parameters and determined predictors of infarct enlargement using logistic analysis. Result:The degree of the CBF decrease was related to the size of the initial infarct lesion (CBF at core:r=−0.4060, p=0.044;CBF at penumbra:r=−0.4970, p=0.012) and initial NIHSS (r=−0.451, p=0.024;CBF at penumbra:r=−0.491, p=0.013). Because no parameters were correlated with the ER in all patients. Specifically in the non-recanalization group, the DT at the penumbra was positively correlated with the ER (r=−0.496, p=0.034). Moreover, by logistic regression analysis, the DT at the penumbra was the only independent predictor of infarct enlargement in all patients (p=0.047) and in non-recanalization patients (p=0.036). Conclusion:The only parameter predicting the ER was the mean DT at the penumbra, and the tendency was affected by recanalization status. DT obtained by multi-delay ASL may become a prognostic index of acute cerebral infarction. J. Med. Invest. 71 : 286-292, August, 2024

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