Clinical Outcomes Strongly Associated With the Degree of Reperfusion Achieved in Target Mismatch Patients
Therapies Wednesday, May 29th, 2013STROKEAHA: May 23, 2013
Background and Purpose—To investigate relationships between the degree of early reperfusion achieved on perfusion-weighted imaging and clinical outcomes in the Diffusion and Perfusion Imaging Evaluation for Understanding Stroke Evolution studies. We hypothesized that there would be a strong correlation between the degree of reperfusion achieved and clinical outcomes in target mismatch (TMM) patients.
Methods—The degree of reperfusion was calculated on the basis of the difference in perfusion-weighted imaging volumes (time to maximum of tissue residue function [Tmax]>6 s) between the baseline MRI and the early post-treatment follow-up scan. Read more