• Acta Neurochir. Suppl. · Jan 2015

    Clot-clearance rate in the sylvian cistern is associated with the severity of cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

    • Tomikatsu Toyoda, Ichiro Yonekura, Akira Iijima, Munehisa Shinozaki, and Takeo Tanishima.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, JCHO Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, 5-1 Tsukudocho Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8543, Japan, ttoyoda-tky@umin.net.
    • Acta Neurochir. Suppl. 2015 Jan 1;120:275-7.

    AbstractRapid clot removal and clearance has been proposed as an effective tool for preventing cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We examined the relationship between clot-clearance rate and the severity of cerebral vasospasm in 110 consecutive patients with aneurysmal SAH. We measured clot-clearance rates per day in the basal and Sylvian cisterns, and evaluated the presence of symptomatic vasospasm based on changes in clinical symptoms and the appearance of a new low-density area on a computed tomography (CT) scan. The severity of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm was associated with age and the SAH grade on admission; however, we observed no significant difference between these variables in patients with urokinase irrigation or fasudil hydrochloride treatment. The mean clot-clearance rates per day for patients with asymptomatic and permanent delayed ischemic neurological deficit were 41.9 and 41.5 %, respectively, in the basal cistern (P = 0.7358) and 37.7 and 23.9 %, respectively, in the Sylvian cistern (P = 0.0021). The reduced clot-clearance rate in the Sylvian cistern increased the risk of vasospasm-related infarction (P = 0.0093) and markedly reduced unfavorable outcomes (P = 0.0115).

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