• Yu Chen, Pingting Chen, Ruinan Li, Heze Han, Zhipeng Li, Li Ma, Debin Yan, Haibin Zhang, Fa Lin, Runting Li, Xiangyu Meng, Hengwei Jin, Youxiang Li, Xun Ye, Shuai Kang, Hao Wang, Xiaolin Chen, and Yuanli Zhao.
• 1Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing.
• J. Neurosurg. 2023 Mar 1; 138 (3): 740749740-749.

ObjectiveThe hemodynamics of a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) nidus may be closely related to clinical presentation. The authors of this study aimed to explore the hemorrhagic quantitative hemodynamic indicators of the nidus through quantitative digital subtraction angiography (QDSA).MethodsThe quantitative hemodynamic parameters were generated from QDSA. Three data sets were used to explore independent quantitative hemodynamic indicators associated with AVM rupture. The training data set was exploited to discover independent quantitative hemodynamic indicators of AVM rupture by performing univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. The authors plotted receiver operating characteristic curves to validate the diagnostic performance of the hemorrhagic hemodynamic indicators using the training and two external validation data sets. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was adopted to verify the predictive power of these risk indicators of future hemorrhage in the external prospective validation data set.ResultsA total of 151 patients were included in this study, 91 in the training set and 30 in each of the two validation sets. A higher stasis index and slower transnidal relative velocity (TRV) of the nidus were significantly correlated with AVM rupture. The areas under the curve (AUCs) of the stasis index (nidus) were 0.765 and 0.815 and those of the TRV (nidus) were 0.735 and 0.796, respectively, in the training and retrospective external validation sets. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis confirmed the validity of the stasis index and TRV in predicting future rupture risk in the prospective validation data set (p = 0.008 and 0.041, respectively, log-rank test).ConclusionsA higher stasis index (nidus) and slower TRV (nidus) in QDSA were associated with AVM rupture and were effective indicators of future hemorrhage, suggesting that the core mechanisms underlying AVM rupture could be intravascular blood stasis and occlusive hyperemia of the nidus.

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