Title

Establishing final infarct volume: stroke lesion evolution past 30 days is insignificant

UMMS Affiliation

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Section on Stroke Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Publication Date

2008-07-19

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Lesion volume measured on MRI has been used as an objective surrogate marker for outcome in clinical trials. However, lesion volumes vary over time because of edema and tissue loss. This study aims to determine if lesion volumes measured at 30 and 90 days after ictus significantly differ.

METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of 18 patients who had acute (<24>hours) DWI and follow-up fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging at 5, 30, and 90 days. Two expert readers segmented lesions and the mean volumes of both reads were used in all statistical analyses.

RESULTS: Patient age was 65.8 (SD, 13.7) years and median NIHSS at baseline was 11.5. Inter-rater variability for lesion volume measurements was 3.7 (5.8) mL. Acute DWI volume was 19.3 (17.3) mL. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery volumes for 5, 30, and 90 days were 34.3 (23.5), 18.6 (14.0), and 15.9 (13.8) mL, respectively. These volumes differed significantly (P<0.001). Linear regression revealed a strong correlation (r=0.96; P<0.001) between lesion volumes at 30 and 90 days with a slope that did not vary significantly from 1.0 (P=0.448).

CONCLUSIONS: Lesions continue to evolve between 5 and 90 days, but by 30 days lesion volume approaches final infarct volume. While clinical response is the most meaningful outcome measure, our findings suggest that lesion volumes measured at 30 days may provide a sufficient approximation for final infarct volume for use in early phase clinical trials.

DOI of Published Version

10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.512269

Source

Stroke. 2008 Oct;39(10):2765-8. Epub 2008 Jul 17. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation

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PubMed ID

18635854

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