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Zhang Y, Chen Y, Li R, Ma L, Han H, Li Z, Zhang H, Yuan K, Zhao Y, Jin W, Chen P, Zhou W, Ye X, Li Y, Wang S, Chen X, Zhao Y. Overloaded transnidal pressure gradient as the hemodynamic mechanism leading to arteriovenous malformation rupture: a quantitative analysis using intravascular pressure monitoring and color-coded digital subtraction angiography. J Neurointerv Surg 2024:jnis-2023-021348. [PMID: 38471763 DOI: 10.1136/jnis-2023-021348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND The hemodynamics of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may have implications for hemorrhage. This study aimed to explore the hemodynamics of ruptured AVMs by direct microcatheter intravascular pressure monitoring (MIPM) and indirect quantitative digital subtraction angiography (QDSA). METHODS We recruited patients with AVMs at a tertiary neurosurgery center from October 2020 to March 2023. In terms of MIPM, we preoperatively super-selected a predominant feeding artery and main draining vein through angiography to measure intravascular pressure before embolization. In processing of QDSA, we adopted previously standardized procedure for quantitative hemodynamics analysis of pre-embolization digital subtraction angiography (DSA), encompassing main feeding artery, nidus, and the main draining vein. Subsequently, we investigated the correlation between AVM rupture and intravascular pressure from MIPM, as well as hemodynamic parameters derived from QDSA. Additionally, we explored the interrelationships between hemodynamic indicators in both dimensions. RESULTS After strict screening of patients, our study included 10 AVMs (six ruptured and four unruptured). We found that higher transnidal pressure gradient (TPG) (53.00±6.36 vs 39.25±8.96 mmHg, p=0.042), higher feeding artery pressure (FAP) (72.83±5.46 vs 65.00±6.48 mmHg, p=0.031) and higher stasis index of nidus (3.54±0.73 vs 2.43±0.70, p=0.043) were significantly correlated with AVM rupture. In analysis of interrelationships between hemodynamic indicators in both dimensions, a strongly positive correlation (r=0.681, p=0.030) existed between TPG and stasis index of nidus. CONCLUSIONS TPG and FAP from MIPM platform and nidus stasis index from QDSA platform were correlated with AVM rupture, and both were positively correlated, suggesting that higher pressure load within nidus may be the central mechanism leading to AVM rupture.
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- Yukun Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Department of Neurosurgery, Peking University International Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Peking University International Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Peking University International Hospital, Beijing, China
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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Li R, Chen P, Han H, Li Z, Chen X, Chen Y, Zhao Y. Association of nidus size and rupture in brain arteriovenous malformations: Insight from angioarchitecture and hemodynamics. Neurosurg Rev 2023; 46:216. [PMID: 37650957 DOI: 10.1007/s10143-023-02113-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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This study aims to investigate the correlation between AVM size and rupture by examining natural history, angioarchitecture characteristics, and quantitative hemodynamics. A retrospective review of 90 consecutive AVMs from the MATCH registry was conducted. Patients were categorized into small nidus (< 3 cm) and large nidus (≥ 3 cm) groups based on the Spetzler-Martin grading system. Natural history analysis used prospective cohort survival data, while imaging analysis examined angioarchitecture characteristics and quantitative hemodynamic parameters measured with QDSA. The small-nidus group had a significantly higher annualized rupture risk (2.3% vs. 1.0%; p = 0.011). Cross-sectional imaging revealed independent hemorrhagic risk factors, including small nidus (OR, 4.801; 95%CI, 1.280-18.008; p = 0.020) and draining vein stenosis (OR, 6.773; 95%CI, 1.179-38.911; p = 0.032). Hemodynamic analysis identified higher stasis index in the feeding artery (OR, 2.442; 95%CI, 1.074-5.550; p = 0.033), higher stasis index in the draining vein (OR, 11.812; 95%CI, 1.907-73.170; p = 0.008), and lower outflow gradient in the draining vein (OR, 1.658; 95%CI, 1.068-2.574; p = 0.024) as independent predictors of AVM rupture. The small nidus group also showed a higher likelihood of being associated with hemorrhagic risk factors. Small AVM nidus has a higher risk of rupture based on natural history, angioarchitecture, and hemodynamics. Clinical Trial Registration-URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . Unique identifier: NCT04572568.
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- Ruinan Li
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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Rodriguez-Calienes A, Vivanco-Suarez J, Costa M, Echevarria-Quispe JY, Rodríguez-Varela R, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Saal-Zapata G. Embolization as stand-alone strategy for pediatric low-grade brain arteriovenous malformations. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2023; 32:107137. [PMID: 37068327 DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2023.107137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES We evaluated the safety and efficacy of endovascular embolization as first-line stand-alone strategy for the treatment of low-grade brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) (Spetzler Martin [SM] grade I and II) in pediatric patients. In addition, we assessed the predictors of procedure-related complications and radiographic complete obliteration in a single session. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a single center retrospective cohort study of all pediatric (≤18 years) patients who underwent embolization as a stand-alone strategy for low-grade bAVMs between 2010 and 2022. Safety was measured by procedure-related complications and mortality. Efficacy was defined as complete angiographic obliteration after the last embolization session. RESULTS Sixty-eight patients (41 females; median age 14 years) underwent a total of 102 embolization sessions. There were 24 (35%) SM grade I lesions and 44 (65%) grade II. Six procedure-related complications (5.8% of procedures) were observed and no deaths were reported. All the complications were intraoperative nidus ruptures. A single draining vein was the only significant predictor of procedure-related complications (OR=0.10; 95% CI 0.01 - 0.72; p=0.048). Complete angiographic obliteration was achieved in 44 patients (65%). In 35 patients (51%) the bAVM was completely occluded in one session. The bAVM nidal size was a predictor of complete obliteration in one session (OR=0.44; 95% CI, 0.21-0.80; p=0.017). CONCLUSION Endovascular treatment as a stand-alone strategy for pediatric low-grade bAVMs is an adequate first-line approach in high volume centers with endovascular expertise. Nidal size evaluation is relevant in order to optimize patient selection for embolization as a stand-alone treatment modality.
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- Aaron Rodriguez-Calienes
- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 339 Teeters Ct, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA; Neuroscience, Clinical Effectiveness and Public Health Research Group, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 339 Teeters Ct, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
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- Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery Department, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Endovascular Neurosurgery Service, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen-EsSalud, Lima, Peru; Departament of Neurosurgery, Clinica Angloamericana, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 339 Teeters Ct, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA; Department of Neurosurgery & Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Endovascular Neurosurgery Service, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen-EsSalud, Lima, Peru; Departament of Neurosurgery, Clinica Angloamericana, Lima, Peru
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Shabani Z, Schuerger J, Su H. Cellular loci involved in the development of brain arteriovenous malformations. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:968369. [PMID: 36211120 PMCID: PMC9532630 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.968369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) are abnormal vessels that are prone to rupture, causing life-threatening intracranial bleeding. The mechanism of bAVM formation is poorly understood. Nevertheless, animal studies revealed that gene mutation in endothelial cells (ECs) and angiogenic stimulation are necessary for bAVM initiation. Evidence collected through analyzing bAVM specimens of human and mouse models indicate that cells other than ECs also are involved in bAVM pathogenesis. Both human and mouse bAVMs vessels showed lower mural cell-coverage, suggesting a role of pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) in bAVM pathogenesis. Perivascular astrocytes also are important in maintaining cerebral vascular function and take part in bAVM development. Furthermore, higher inflammatory cytokines in bAVM tissue and blood demonstrate the contribution of inflammatory cells in bAVM progression, and rupture. The goal of this paper is to provide our current understanding of the roles of different cellular loci in bAVM pathogenesis.
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- Zahra Shabani
- Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Hua Su, ; orcid.org/0000-0003-1566-9877
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Surgical Management of Cranial and Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations. Stroke 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-69424-7.00074-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cauldwell M, Bredaki E, Dassan P, Dhanjal MK, Kaler M, Madipola N, Mahmud M, Paviour D, Senvar N, de Silva R, Watt-Coote I, Williams D, Yulia A, Steer PJ. Maternal and fetal outcomes in women with cerebrovascular malformations in pregnancy: A multicentre retrospective cohort study. BJOG 2021; 129:1151-1157. [PMID: 34882960 DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.17046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine maternal, obstetric and neonatal outcomes in a cohort of women with cerebrovascular malformations (CVMs) that include arterial venous malformations (AVMs) and cavernomas. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Six specialist centres managing pregnant women with neurological disorders. POPULATION Sixty-three women with CVMs in 83 pregnancies of ≥20 completed weeks' gestation. METHODS Retrospective case notes review. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Neurological outcomes including rates of acute cerebral bleeding in pregnancy and reported seizures during pregnancy. Maternal outcomes included number of women with a livebirth and the proportion of women being delivered by caesarean section. RESULTS Most women had a good pregnancy outcome with high rates of vaginal delivery (73%) at term. There were no maternal deaths. Six women had an acute cerebral bleed, all of whom were delivered by planned caesarean section. In total, ten women had seizures in pregnancy (of whom four also had a bleed). Six (7%) babies were admitted to a neonatal unit. There was no significant difference in outcomes between women with AVMs and those with cavernomas. CONCLUSION In the majority of cases, pregnancy outcomes were favourable, with most women having a vaginal delivery. All cases of cerebral bleeds that occurred were at a remove from the peripartum period. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT Women with cerebrovascular malformations have high rates of vaginal delivery.
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- Matthew Cauldwell
- Department of Obstetrics, Maternal Medicine Service, St George's Hospital, London, UK
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- UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Directorate of Maternity, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen's Hospital Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Queen's Hospital Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics, Maternal Medicine Service, St George's Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Queen's Hospital Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics, Maternal Medicine Service, St George's Hospital, London, UK
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- UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, UK
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- Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
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Jia Y, Li G, Song G, Ye X, Yang Y, Lu K, Huang S, Zhu S. SMASH-U aetiological classification: A predictor of long-term functional outcome after intracerebral haemorrhage. Eur J Neurol 2021; 29:178-187. [PMID: 34534389 DOI: 10.1111/ene.15111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND SMASH-U is a systematic aetiological classification system for intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) proven to be a predictor of post-ICH haematoma expansion and mortality. However, its role in predicting functional outcome remains elusive. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether SMASH-U is associated with long-term functional outcome after ICH and improves the accuracy of prediction when added to max-ICH score. METHODS Consecutive acute ICH patients from 2012 to 2018 from the neurology department of Tongji Hospital were enrolled. ICH aetiology was classified according to the SMASH-U system. The association of SMASH-U with 12-month functional outcome after ICH and the predictive value were evaluated. RESULTS Of 1938 ICH patients, the aetiology of 1295 (66.8%) patients were classified as hypertension, followed by amyloid angiopathy (n = 250, 12.9%), undetermined (n = 159, 8.2%), structural lesions (n = 149, 7.7%), systemic disease (n = 74, 3.8%) and medication (n = 11, 0.6%). The baseline characteristics were different among the six aetiologies. In multivariate analysis, SMASH-U was proven to be a predictor of 12-month unfavourable functional outcome. When adding the SMASH-U system, the predictive performance of max-ICH score was improved (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve from 0.802 to 0.812, p = 0.010) and the predictive accuracy was enhanced (integrated discrimination improvement [IDI]: 1.60%, p < 0.001; continuous net reclassification improvement [NRI]: 28.16%, p < 0.001; categorical NRI: 3.34%, p = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS SMASH-U predicted long-term unfavourable functional outcomes after acute ICH and improved the accuracy of prediction when added to max-ICH score. Integrating the aetiology to a score model to predict the post-ICH outcome may be meaningful and worthy of further exploration.
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- Yuchao Jia
- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Zhang C, Chau N, Ho H. Patient-Specific Blood Flow Analysis for Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation Based on Digital Subtraction Angiography Images. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:775. [PMID: 32793568 PMCID: PMC7390970 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Real-time digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is capable of revealing the cerebral vascular morphology and blood flow perfusion patterns of arterial venous malformations (AVMs). In this study, we analyze the DSA images of a subject-specific left posterior AVM case and customize a generic electric analog model for cerebral circulation accordingly. The generic model consists of electronic components representing 49 major cerebral arteries and veins, and yields their blood pressure and flow rate profiles. The model was adapted by incorporating the supplying and draining patterns of the AVM to simulate some typical AVM features such as the blood "steal" syndrome, where the flow rate in the left posterior artery increases by almost three times (∼300 ml/min vs 100 ml/min) compared with the healthy case. Meanwhile, the flow rate to the right posterior artery is reduced to ∼30 ml/min from 100 ml/min despite the presence of an autoregulation mechanism in the model. In addition, the blood pressure in the draining veins is increased from 9 to 22 mmHg, and the blood pressure in the feeding arteries is reduced from 85 to 30 mmHg due to the fistula effects of the AVM. In summary, a first DSA-based AVM model has been developed. More subject-specific AVM cases are required to apply the presented in silico model, and in vivo data are used to validate the simulation results.
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- Changwei Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Medical management with interventional therapy versus medical management alone for unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (ARUBA): final follow-up of a multicentre, non-blinded, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Neurol 2020; 19:573-581. [PMID: 32562682 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(20)30181-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND In A Randomized trial of Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous malformations (ARUBA), randomisation was halted at a mean follow-up of 33·3 months after a prespecified interim analysis showed that medical management alone was superior to the combination of medical management and interventional therapy in preventing symptomatic stroke or death. We aimed to study whether these differences persisted through 5-years' follow-up. METHODS ARUBA was a non-blinded, randomised trial done at 39 clinical centres in nine countries. Adults (age ≥18 years) diagnosed with an unruptured brain arteriovenous malformation, who had never undergone interventional therapy, and were considered by participating clinical centres to be suitable for intervention to eradicate the lesion, were eligible for inclusion. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) by a web-based data collection system, stratified by clinical centre in a random permuted block design with block sizes of two, four, and six, to medical management alone or with interventional therapy (neurosurgery, embolisation, or stereotactic radiotherapy, alone or in any combination, sequence, or number). Although patients and investigators at a given centre were not masked to treatment assignment, investigators at other centres and those in the clinical coordinating centre were not informed of assignment or outcomes at any of the centres. The primary outcome was time to death or symptomatic stroke confirmed by imaging, assessed by a neurologist at each centre not involved in the management of participants' care, and monitored by an independent committee using an adaptive approach with interim analyses. Enrolment began on April 4, 2007, and was halted on April 15, 2013, after which follow-up continued until July 15, 2015. All analyses were by intention to treat. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00389181. FINDINGS Of 1740 patients screened, 226 were randomly assigned to medical management alone (n=110) or medical management plus interventional therapy (n=116). During a mean follow-up of 50·4 months (SD 22·9), the incidence of death or symptomatic stroke was lower with medical management alone (15 of 110, 3·39 per 100 patient-years) than with medical management with interventional therapy (41 of 116, 12·32 per 100 patient-years; hazard ratio 0·31, 95% CI 0·17 to 0·56). Two patients in the medical management group and four in the interventional therapy group (two attributed to intervention) died during follow-up. Adverse events were observed less often in patients allocated to medical management compared with interventional therapy (283 vs 369; 58·97 vs 78·73 per 100 patient-years; risk difference -19·76, 95% CI -30·33 to -9·19). INTERPRETATION After extended follow-up, ARUBA showed that medical management alone remained superior to interventional therapy for the prevention of death or symptomatic stroke in patients with an unruptured brain arteriovenous malformation. The data concerning the disparity in outcomes should affect standard specialist practice and the information presented to patients. The even longer-term risks and differences between the two therapeutic approaches remains uncertain. FUNDING National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the randomisation phase and Vital Projects Fund for the follow-up phase.
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Lin TM, Yang HC, Lee CC, Wu HM, Hu YS, Luo CB, Guo WY, Kao YH, Chung WY, Lin CJ. Stasis index from hemodynamic analysis using quantitative DSA correlates with hemorrhage of supratentorial arteriovenous malformation: a cross-sectional study. J Neurosurg 2020; 132:1574-1582. [DOI: 10.3171/2019.1.jns183386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVEAssessments of hemorrhage risk based on angioarchitecture have yielded inconsistent results, and quantitative hemodynamic studies have been limited to small numbers of patients. The authors examined whether cerebral hemodynamic analysis using quantitative digital subtraction angiography (QDSA) can outperform conventional DSA angioarchitecture analysis in evaluating the risk of hemorrhage associated with supratentorial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).METHODSA cross-sectional study was performed by retrospectively reviewing adult supratentorial AVM patients who had undergone both DSA and MRI studies between 2011 and 2017. Angioarchitecture characteristics, DSA parameters, age, sex, and nidus volume were analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression, and QDSA software analysis was performed on DSA images. Based on the QDSA analysis, a stasis index, defined as the inflow gradient divided by the absolute value of the outflow gradient, was determined. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to compare diagnostic performances of conventional DSA angioarchitecture analysis and analysis using hemodynamic parameters based on QDSA.RESULTSA total of 119 supratentorial AVM patients were included. After adjustment for age at diagnosis, sex, and nidus volume, the exclusive deep venous drainage (p < 0.01), observed through conventional angioarchitecture examination using DSA, and the stasis index of the most dominant drainage vein (p = 0.02), measured with QDSA hemodynamic analysis, were independent risk factors for hemorrhage. The areas under the ROC curves for the conventional DSA method (0.75) and QDSA hemodynamics analysis (0.73) were similar. A venous stasis index greater than 2.18 discriminated the hemorrhage group with a sensitivity of 52.6% and a specificity of 81.5%.CONCLUSIONSIn QDSA, a higher stasis index of the most dominant drainage vein is an objective warning sign associated with supratentorial AVM rupture. Risk assessments of AVMs using QDSA and conventional DSA angioarchitecture were equivalent. Because QDSA is a complementary noninvasive approach without extra radiation or contrast media, comprehensive hemorrhagic risk assessment of cerebral AVMs should include both DSA angioarchitecture and QDSA analyses.
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- Te Ming Lin
- 1Department of Radiology and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 2Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital; and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 2Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital; and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 1Department of Radiology and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 1Department of Radiology and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 1Department of Radiology and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 1Department of Radiology and
- 3School of Medicine and
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- 4Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- 1Department of Radiology and
- 2Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital; and
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Jain MS, Do HM, Wintermark M, Massoud TF. Large-scale ensemble simulations of biomathematical brain arteriovenous malformation models using graphics processing unit computation. Comput Biol Med 2019; 113:103416. [PMID: 31494430 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 08/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Theoretical modeling allows investigations of cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) hemodynamics, but current models are too simple and not clinically representative. We developed a more realistic AVM model based on graphics processing unit (GPU) computing, to replicate highly variable and complex nidus angioarchitectures with vessel counts in the thousands-orders of magnitude greater than current models. METHODS We constructed a theoretical electrical circuit AVM model with a nidus described by a stochastic block model (SBM) of 57 nodes and an average of 1000 plexiform and fistulous vessels. We sampled and individually simulated 10,000 distinct nidus morphologies from this SBM, constituting an ensemble simulation. We assigned appropriate biophysical values to all model vessels, and known values of mean intravascular pressure (Pmean) to extranidal vessels. We then used network analysis to calculate Pmean and volumetric flow rate within each nidus vessel, and mapped these values onto a graphic representation of the nidus network. We derived an expression for nidus rupture risk and conducted a model parameter sensitivity analysis. RESULTS Simulations revealed a total intranidal volumetric blood flow ranging from 268 mL/min to 535 mL/min, with an average of 463 mL/min. The maximum percentage rupture risk among all vessels in the nidus ranged from 0% to 60%, with an average of 29%. CONCLUSION This easy to implement biomathematical AVM model, allowed by parallel data processing using advanced GPU computing, will serve as a useful tool for theoretical investigations of AVM therapies and their hemodynamic sequelae.
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- Mika S Jain
- Department of Physics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Computer Science, Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Neuroimaging and Neurointervention, Department of Radiology, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Neuroimaging and Neurointervention, Department of Radiology, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Neuroimaging and Neurointervention, Department of Radiology, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Hacein-Bey L, Young W. Hemodynamic Perturbations in Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations and Management Implications. Interv Neuroradiol 2016; 5 Suppl 1:177-82. [DOI: 10.1177/15910199990050s132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/1999] [Accepted: 09/30/1999] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Cerebral AVMs have high flow, low resistance shunts that induce regional hemodynamic disturbances and possibly neural derangements. A better understanding of these mechanisms may help treatment planning and the management of complications after endovascular or surgical treatment. Although the precise mechanisms of hemodynamic perturbation are still relatively unclear, the presence of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion is central and widely believed to be associated with both neurological deficits at presentation (‘steal‘) and ‘hyperemic’ complications following shunt obliteration. The ‘normal perfusion pressure breakthrough‘ (NPPB) theory states that chronic hypoperfusion around AVMs induces the loss of autoregulatory capability; following AVM shunt obliteration, perfusion pressure elevation induces an increase in flow, due to ‘vasomotor paralysis’, which can cause hemorrhage. The ‘dissociative vasoparalysis' theory suggests that vasodilation is preserved but not vasoconstriction. However, pharmacologic exploration of cerebral autoregulation with induced vasoconstriction (phenylephrine) and vasodilatation (acetazolamide) helps identify 3 patterns of autoregulatory behavior. The vast majority of AVM patients appear to retain autoregulatory capability, despite low arterial feeding pressures, consistent with a “shift to the left” of the autoregulation curve. Pronounced hypotension may “exhaust” cerebrovascular reserve in some patients, predisposing to hemorrhagic complications in the post-operative period. Lastly, “vasoparalysis” may coexist with a combination of vascular insult and marked hypotension. Clinical presentation, AVM angioarchitecture and peri-operative physiologic data (especially feeding artery and venous outflow pressures) may assist patient management. Patients can be identified in whom staged treatment is recommended initially. Following AVM obliteration, the patient's hemodynamic response, which may range from a minimal increase in A-V pressure gradient to significant CBF increase may be predicted, and blood pressure, fluid and ICP management adjusted accordingly, as the monitoring of post-operative cerebral hemodynamics remains difficult. Extreme attention to endovascular and operative technique must be exercised, as technical problems can be devastating. Although incompletely understood, hemodynamic derangements associated with cerebral AVMs increasingly appear to be associated with intact cerebral autoregulation in most patients. As cerebral hemodynamics monitoring remains challenging, clinical, angiographic and physiologic data from interventional/operative monitoring must be used to guide patient management.
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- Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery and Radiology; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A
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Waseem A. Cranial Arteriovenous Malformations During Pregnancy: A Multidisciplinary Algorithm for Safe Management. Case Series and Review of the Literature. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.15406/jnsk.2016.04.00122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Surgical Management of Cranial and Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations. Stroke 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-29544-4.00072-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is rigorously regulated by various powerful mechanisms to safeguard the match between cerebral metabolic demand and supply. The question of how a change in cardiac output (CO) affects CBF is fundamental, because CBF is dependent on constantly receiving a significant proportion of CO. The authors reviewed the studies that investigated the association between CO and CBF in healthy volunteers and patients with chronic heart failure. The overall evidence shows that an alteration in CO, either acutely or chronically, leads to a change in CBF that is independent of other CBF-regulating parameters including blood pressure and carbon dioxide. However, studies on the association between CO and CBF in patients with varying neurologic, medical, and surgical conditions were confounded by methodologic limitations. Given that CBF regulation is multifactorial but the various processes must exert their effects on the cerebral circulation simultaneously, the authors propose a conceptual framework that integrates the various CBF-regulating processes at the level of cerebral arteries/arterioles while still maintaining autoregulation. The clinical implications pertinent to the effect of CO on CBF are discussed. Outcome research relating to the management of CO and CBF in high-risk patients or during high-risk surgeries is needed.
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Starks VS, Gilliland G, Hise J, Thacker I, Layton KF. Effect of resection of an orbital arteriovenous malformation on central venous pressure. Proc AMIA Symp 2015; 28:185-7. [PMID: 25829648 DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2015.11929223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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We report the first utilization of intraoperative central venous pressure (CVP) monitoring in the resection of an orbital arteriovenous malformation. A 24-year-old woman with a history of a left orbital mass who had previously undergone resection of a cranio-orbital arteriovenous malformation presented with gradual recurrence in the left orbit. She visited the emergency department with sudden vision loss, which resolved over several hours. This transient vision loss was thought to be due to a steal phenomenon from the ophthalmic artery due to the residual vascular malformation. Further surgical resection was undertaken. A preoperative angiogram identified residual feeding vessels, and the larger vessels were embolized. At the start of the procedure, her CVP was elevated (29 mm Hg), as measured by a central venous line. The remaining feeding vessels were surgically ligated, and an intraoperative arteriogram confirmed their successful ablation. At the conclusion of the procedure, the CVP had decreased to 9 mm Hg.
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- Victoria S Starks
- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (Starks); and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Gilliland) and Radiology (Hise, Thacker, Layton), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (Starks); and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Gilliland) and Radiology (Hise, Thacker, Layton), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (Starks); and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Gilliland) and Radiology (Hise, Thacker, Layton), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (Starks); and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Gilliland) and Radiology (Hise, Thacker, Layton), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (Starks); and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Gilliland) and Radiology (Hise, Thacker, Layton), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
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Rangel-Castilla L, Spetzler RF, Nakaji P. Normal perfusion pressure breakthrough theory: a reappraisal after 35 years. Neurosurg Rev 2014; 38:399-404; discussion 404-5. [PMID: 25483235 DOI: 10.1007/s10143-014-0600-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2014] [Revised: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The intrinsic ability of the brain to maintain constant cerebral blood flow (CBF) is known as cerebral pressure autoregulation. This ability protects the brain against cerebral ischemia and hyperemia within a certain range of blood pressures. The normal perfusion pressure breakthrough (NPPB) theory described by Spetzler in 1978 was adopted to explain the edema and hemorrhage that sometimes occur after resection of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The underlying pathophysiology of edema and hemorrhage after AVM resection still remains controversial. Over the last three decades, advances in neuroimaging, CBF, and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) measurement have both favored and contradicted the NBBP theory. At the same time, other theories have been proposed, including the occlusive hyperemia theory. We believe that both theories are related and complementary and that they both explain changes in hemodynamics after AVM resection. The purpose of this work is to review the current status of the NBBP theory 35 years after its original description.
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- Leonardo Rangel-Castilla
- Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Brain arteriovenous malformation modeling, pathogenesis, and novel therapeutic targets. Transl Stroke Res 2014; 5:316-29. [PMID: 24723256 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-014-0343-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Revised: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Patients harboring brain arteriovenous malformation (bAVM) are at life-threatening risk of rupture and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). The pathogenesis of bAVM has not been completely understood. Current treatment options are invasive, and ≈ 20 % of patients are not offered interventional therapy because of excessive treatment risk. There are no specific medical therapies to treat bAVMs. The lack of validated animal models has been an obstacle for testing hypotheses of bAVM pathogenesis and testing new therapies. In this review, we summarize bAVM model development and bAVM pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets that have been identified during model development.
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Haussen DC, Ashour R, Johnson JN, Elhammady MS, Peterson EC, Cesar L, Bowie C, Aziz-Sultan MA. Direct continuous measurement of draining vein pressure during Onyx embolization in a swine arteriovenous malformation model. J Neurointerv Surg 2014; 7:62-6. [PMID: 24443412 DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2013-011066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Periprocedural intracranial hemorrhage secondary to intranidal flow redirection may develop after arteriovenous malformation (AVM) embolization. We hypothesized that continuous draining vein pressure monitoring may identify clinically relevant hemodynamic changes during devascularization. Our goal was to characterize the draining vein pressures in a swine rete mirabile AVM model during embolization with Onyx. METHODS An acute swine AVM model was constructed in six animals. Baseline, transoperative and final AVM area measurements were used to determine the degree of AVM embolization. Continuous video recordings were captured at 10 s intervals of active embolization. Draining vein pressure, arterial feeder pressure and heart rate were continuously monitored. RESULTS The baseline and post-embolization mean draining vein pressures were 49.8±17.2 and 33.0±11.7 mm Hg (p=0.01), mean arterial pressures were 79.8±19.4 and 79.6±25.2 mm Hg (p=0.94), mean transnidal pressures were 35.8±19.7 and 45.4±33.7 mm Hg (p=0.37) and mean heart rates were 81.1±11.9 and 83.1±12.8 bpm (p=0.38), respectively. The draining vein pressure was averaged according to the degree of AVM embolization and represented as a relative change compared with the baseline draining vein pressure, and the slopes were found to decrease in all cases (p=0.02). In half of the animals the draining vein pressure decreased progressively as the AVM was embolized. In the remaining animals the venous pressure only started to decline after the AVM had been devascularized by > 50%. CONCLUSIONS The draining vein pressure response during Onyx embolization in the swine AVM model is heterogeneous. Continuous draining vein pressure monitoring is feasible and may potentially identify clinically relevant hemodynamic changes during AVM embolization.
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- Diogo C Haussen
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Litao MLS, Pilar-Arceo CP, Legaspi GD. AVM Compartments: Do they modulate trasnidal pressures? An electrical network analysis. Asian J Neurosurg 2013; 7:174-80. [PMID: 23559984 PMCID: PMC3613639 DOI: 10.4103/1793-5482.106649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background: Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) compartments are thought as independently fed, hemodynamically independent components of the AVM nidus. Its possible role in modulating transnidal pressures have not been investigated to our knowledge. Objective: To investigate if AVM compartments play a role in modulating transnidal pressures by using electrical models as a method of investigation. Materials and Methods: Monocompartmental and multicompartmental AVM models were constructed using electrical circuits- building on Dr. Guglielmi's previous work. Each compartment was fed by two feeding arteries (resistors) and had a shared draining vein with other compartments in the AVM nidus. Each compartment is composed of a series of resistors which represents the pressure gradient along the AVM (arterial, arteriolar, venular, and venous). Pressure (voltage) readings were obtained within these nidal points. Results: The pressure gradient (venous-arterial) is more as there are less AVM compartments in the nidus model. The monocomparmental model had a pressure gradient of 66mmHg (V); while it was 64, 61, and 59 for the 2-, 3-, and 4-compartment models, respectively. In addition, the more the number of compartments, the greater the flow (mA) is in the whole AVM nidus, 33 ml/min for the monocompartmental AVM and 121ml/min for the 4-compartment AVM; though there was greater flow per compartment as there were less compartments, 33ml/min per compartment for the monocompartmental model versus 29ml/min for the 4-compartment model. Conclusion: Transnidal pressure gradients may be less the more compartments an AVM has. This electrical model represents an approach that can be used in investigating the hemodynamic contributions of AVM compartments.
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- Miguel Lorenzo Silva Litao
- Department of Neurosciences, University of the Philippines -Manila College of Medicine, Quezon City, Philippines
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Rossitti S. Pathophysiology of increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure associated to brain arteriovenous malformations: The hydraulic hypothesis. Surg Neurol Int 2013; 4:42. [PMID: 23607064 PMCID: PMC3622353 DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.109657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2012] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) produce circulatory and functional disturbances in adjacent as well as in remote areas of the brain, but their physiological effect on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure is not well known. Methods: The hypothesis of an intrinsic disease mechanism leading to increased CSF pressure in all patients with brain AVM is outlined, based on a theory of hemodynamic control of intracranial pressure that asserts that CSF pressure is a fraction of the systemic arterial pressure as predicted by a two-resistor series circuit hydraulic model. The resistors are the arteriolar resistance (that is regulated by vasomotor tonus), and the venous resistance (which is mechanically passive as a Starling resistor). This theory is discussed and compared with the knowledge accumulated by now on intravasal pressures and CSF pressure measured in patients with brain AVM. Results: The theory provides a basis for understanding the occurrence of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome in patients with nonhemorrhagic brain AVMs, for the occurrence of local mass effect and brain edema bordering unruptured AVMs, and for the development of hydrocephalus in patients with unruptured AVMs. The theory also contributes to a better appreciation of the pathophysiology of dural arteriovenous fistulas, of vein of Galen aneurismal malformation, and of autoregulation-related disorders in AVM patients. Conclusions: The hydraulic hypothesis provides a comprehensive frame to understand brain AVM hemodynamics and its effect on the CSF dynamics.
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- Sandro Rossitti
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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Starke RM, Komotar RJ, Connolly ES. Surgical Decision Making, Techniques, and Periprocedural Care of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations. Stroke 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-1-4160-5478-8.10071-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Evidence for a predominant intrinsic sympathetic control of cerebral blood flow alterations in an animal model of cerebral arteriovenous malformation. Transl Stroke Res 2010; 1:210-9. [PMID: 24323523 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-010-0021-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2009] [Revised: 02/18/2010] [Accepted: 03/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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In terms of neurogenic cerebral blood flow (CBF) control, the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) has a regulating effect. The impact of a manipulation of both the peripheral (via the perivascular sympathetic net) and central components (via the intracortical noradrenergic terminals originating from the locus coeruleus) on CBF-and especially on hyperperfusion syndromes-is unclear. To test the specific patterns following such alterations, cortical oxygen saturation (rSO2), regional CBF (rCBF), and cortical interstitial norepinephrine (NE) concentrations were measured. Twelve weeks after either the creation of an extracranial AV fistula or sham operation, 80 male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent one of the following procedures: (1) no SNS manipulation, (2) peripheral SNS inhibition via bilateral sympathectomy, (3) central SNS inhibition via the neurotoxin DSP-4, or (4) complete SNS inhibition. Norepinephrine concentrations were lowest after complete inhibition (NE [nmol]: pre, 1.8 ± 1.2; post, 2.4 ± 1.8) and highest following peripheral inhibition (NE [nmol]: pre, 3.6 ± 1.9; post, 6.6 ± 4.4). Following fistula occlusion, rCBF (laser Doppler unit [LDU]) and rSO2 (%SO2) increases were highest after complete inhibition (pre: 204 ± 14 LDU, 34 ± 3%SO2; post: 228 ± 18 LDU, 39 ± 3%SO2) and lowest after peripheral inhibition (pre: 221 ± 18 LDU, 41 ± 2%SO2; post: 226 ± 14 LDU, 47 ± 2%SO2). Thus, a complete inhibition down-regulates SNS activity and provokes a cortical hyperperfusion condition. With this, the hitherto unknown predominant role of the intrinsic component could be demonstrated for the first time in vivo.
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Starke RM, Komotar RJ, Hwang BY, Fischer LE, Garrett MC, Otten ML, Connolly ES. Treatment guidelines for cerebral arteriovenous malformation microsurgery. Br J Neurosurg 2009; 23:376-86. [DOI: 10.1080/02688690902977662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Celix JM, Douglas JG, Haynor D, Goodkin R. Thrombosis and hemorrhage in the acute period following Gamma Knife surgery for arteriovenous malformation. J Neurosurg 2009; 111:124-31. [DOI: 10.3171/2009.1.jns08784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Bleeding of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) following stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a known risk during the latency interval, but hemorrhage in the 30-day period following radiosurgery rarely has been reported in the literature. The authors present the case of a 57-year-old man who underwent Gamma Knife surgery for a large AVM, and they provide radiographic documentation of a thrombus in the primary draining vein immediately preceding an AVM hemorrhage within 9 days after radiosurgery. They postulate that the pathophysiology of an AVM hemorrhage in the acute period following SRS is related to an association among tissue irradiation, acute inflammatory response, and vessel thrombosis.
The authors also review the literature on risk factors for hemorrhage due to untreated and radiosurgically treated AVMs. Recent evidence on the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of AVMs and the pathophysiology of AVM rupture is presented. Inflammatory markers have been demonstrated in brain AVM tissue, and the association between inflammation and AVM hemorrhage has been established. There is an acute inflammatory response following tissue irradiation, resulting in structural and functional vascular changes that can lead to vessel thrombosis. Early hemorrhage following radiosurgical treatment of AVMs may be related to the acute inflammatory response and associated vascular changes that occur in irradiated tissue. In the first stage of a planned 2-stage Gamma Knife treatment for a large AVM in the featured case, the superior posteromedial portion of the primary draining vein was included in the treatment field. The authors present the planning images and subsequent CT scans demonstrating a new venous thrombus in the primary draining vein. An acute inflammatory response following radiosurgery with resultant acute venous thrombus formation and venous obstruction is proposed as one mechanism of an AVM hemorrhage in this patient. Radiographic evidence of the time course of thrombosis and hemorrhage supports the hypothesis that acute venous obstruction is a cause of intracranial hemorrhage.
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- 3Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- 1Departments of Neurological Surgery,
- 2Radiation Oncology, and
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Pathophysiology and treatment of brain AVMs. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 19:82-90. [PMID: 19636681 DOI: 10.1007/s00062-009-8035-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2008] [Accepted: 11/09/2008] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are a major source of intracerebral hemorrhage in younger adults. First, some basic ideas about AVM anatomy, the influences of pressure, macrovascular flow, perfusion and the "steal effect", and some recent observations in the field of inflammatory markers and genetics are briefly discussed. Then, some clinical aspects in the presentation and the natural course of AVMs are highlighted, with special emphasis on the prediction of hemorrhage. Finally, some problems of the current treatment options are mentioned, and future directions in diagnostics and therapy considered.
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Radiosurgery for large cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2009; 151:113-24. [PMID: 19209384 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-008-0173-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2007] [Accepted: 02/22/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Radiosurgery is an effective treatment option for patients with small to medium sized arteriovenous malformations. However, it is not generally accepted as an effective tool for larger (>14 cm(3)) arteriovenous malformations because of low obliteration rates. The authors assessed the applicability and effectiveness of radiosurgery for large arteriovenous malformations. METHOD We performed a retrospective study of 46 consecutive patients with more than 14 ml of arteriovenous malformations who were treated with radiosurgery using a linear accelerator and gamma knife (GK). They were grouped according to their initial clinical presentation-17 presented with and 29 without haemorrhage. To assess the effect of embolization, these 46 patients were also regrouped into two subgroups-25 with and 21 without preradiosurgical embolization. Arteriovenous malformations found to have been incompletely obliterated after 3-year follow-up neuroimaging studies were re-treated using a GK. FINDINGS The mean treatment volume was 29.5 ml (range, 14.0-65.0) and the mean marginal dose was 14.1 Gy (range, 10.0-20.0). The mean clinical follow-up periods after initial radiosurgery was 78.1 months (range, 34.0-166.4). Depending on the results of the angiography, 11 of 33 patients after the first radiosurgery and three of four patients after the second radiosurgery showed complete obliteration. Twenty patients received the second radiosurgery and their mean volume was significantly smaller than their initial volume (P = 0.017). The annual haemorrhage rate after radiosurgery was 2.9% in the haemorrhage group (mean follow-up 73.3 months) and 3.1% in the nonhaemorrhage group (mean follow-up 66.5 months) (P = 0.941). Preradiosurgical embolization increased the risk of haemorrhage for the nonhaemorrhage group (HR, 28.03; 95% CI, 1.08-6,759.64; P = 0.039), whereas it had no effect on the haemorrhage group. Latency period haemorrhage occurred in eight patients in the embolization group, but in no patient in the nonembolization group (P = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS Radiosurgery may be a safe and effective arteriovenous malformation treatment method that is worth considering as an alternative treatment option for a large arteriovenous malformation.
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Kiran NAS, Kale SS, Vaishya S, Kasliwal MK, Gupta A, Sharma MS, Sharma BS, Mahapatra AK. Gamma Knife surgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations in children: a retrospective study in 103 patients. J Neurosurg 2008; 107:479-84. [PMID: 18154017 DOI: 10.3171/ped-07/12/479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECT This retrospective study was designed to study the outcome in children with intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) treated with Gamma Knife surgery (GKS). METHODS One hundred and forty-two children were treated with GKS at the authors' institution between April 1997 and March 2006; of these, 103 patients with a mean follow-up of 26.4 months (range 6-96 months) were included. The mean age at presentation was 13.9 years (range 3-18 years). Eighty-six (83%) patients presented with hemorrhage. In 57 children the AVMs were Spetzler-Martin Grade I or II, and in 46 the AVMs were Grades III, IV, or V. The mean volume of the AVMs was 2.4 ml (range 0.04-23.3 ml). The mean marginal dose administered was 24.4 Gy (range 15-27 Gy). Follow-up angiography was advised at 2 years after GKS and yearly thereafter. In patients with residual AVMs, follow-up angiography was advised yearly until 4 years after GKS. If residual AVM was present, even on a follow-up angiogram obtained 4 years postsurgery, the GKS was considered a failure. RESULTS Complete obliteration of the AVM was documented in 34 (87%) of the 39 patients with complete angiographic follow-up. The 3- and 4-year actuarial rates of nidus obliteration were 66 and 86% respectively. Three patients (2.9%) experienced bleeding during the latency period, and symptomatic radiation-induced edema was noted in four patients (3.8%). A significantly higher incidence of radiation edema was noted in patients with AVM volumes greater than 3 ml and in patients with Spetzler-Martin Grade IV and V AVMs. CONCLUSIONS Gamma Knife radiosurgery is an effective modality for the treatment of intracranial AVMs in children, yielding high obliteration rates and low complication rates.
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Jahan R, Solberg TD, Lee D, Medin P, Tateshima S, De Salles A, Sayre J, Vinters HV, Viñuela F. An Arteriovenous Malformation Model for Stereotactic Radiosurgery Research. Neurosurgery 2007; 61:152-9; discussion 159. [PMID: 17621031 DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000279736.07683.1e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To introduce the utilization of a swine arteriovenous malformation (AVM) model for stereotactic radiosurgery research and to describe the morphological changes in the vessels after radiation.
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The model was created in six animals by creation of a right-sided carotid-jugular fistula. Pre- and postsurgical hemodynamic evaluation was performed. The left rete was radiated in four animals; two animals were not radiated. All animals were sacrificed 4 months after surgery, and the bilateral retia were obtained at autopsy.
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There were no procedure-related complications. A pressure gradient of 20 mmHg across the nidus was obtained after surgery. The peak velocity in the arterial feeder increased from 18.5 to 83 cm/s. Microscopic examination of the control animals showed intimal hyperplasia and disrupted internal elastic lamina, similar to human AVMs. The radiated retia showed more prominent intimal hyperplasia. This was confirmed by histometric studies showing greater luminal occlusion in radiated specimens. Adventitial fibrosis was prominent in the radiated retia and was absent in the control animals. Immunohistochemical studies showed proliferating smooth muscle cells in the intima. The adventitial fibrosis consisted of smooth muscle cells surrounded by collagen Type IV extracellular matrix.
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The nidus component and high-flow vasculopathy make this an attractive model for stereotactic radiosurgery research. Histology of the radiated models is similar to those described in radiated human AVMs. Further studies of the model are warranted to gain a better understanding of the cellular and molecular events in AVM vessels after stereotactic radiosurgery.
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- Reza Jahan
- Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Henkes H, Gotwald TF, Brew S, Miloslavski E, Kämmerer F, Kühne D. Intravascular pressure measurements in feeding pedicles of brain arteriovenous malformations. Neuroradiology 2005; 48:182-9. [PMID: 16328493 DOI: 10.1007/s00234-005-0022-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2005] [Accepted: 09/08/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Pressure measurements in arterial feeders of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) can be easily acquired during endovascular treatment procedures. In this study, mean arterial pressure values in arterial feeders (Pfed) of brain AVMs were determined using a pressure measuring system connected to a standard microcatheter. A total of 148 measurements were performed in 139 patients. Mean systemic arterial pressure values were subtracted for correction. The levels of correlation between the pressure values and various clinical parameters (i.e., AVM location, size, previous hemorrhage) and pathoanatomical features of the AVM (e.g., nidus structure, number of draining veins) were determined. Pfed values were 54.5 mmHg on average. Pfed was lower in more distally located AVMs, in larger lesions and in AVMs with multiple drainage veins. Pressure values were significantly higher in patients with previous hemorrhage and in smaller AVMs. Our results support the importance of hemodynamic parameters in determining the presentation of AVMs. More extensive studies using this simple technique may further elucidate these mechanisms and may result in improved criteria for patient selection and reduction of complications.
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- H Henkes
- Klinik füer Radiologie und Neuroradiologie, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus, Essen, Germany.
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Bowles RI, Dennis SCR, Purvis R, Smith FT. Multi-branching flows from one mother tube to many daughters or to a network. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2005; 363:1045-55. [PMID: 16105767 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Multiply branching fluid flows are modelled in two contexts. The first (type I) is for one-to-many branching. Computations are described for flow through a channel, with fully developed motion upstream, which branches abruptly into a number of subchannels downstream. The differences in pressure between the upstream end of the channel and the downstream ends of the subchannels are substantial. Comparisons with recent analytical predictions show fair agreement for Reynolds numbers in the low tens and above. The second context (type II) has successive generations of bifurcation in a network. Modelling, computations and analysis include the effects of many bifurcations.
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- R I Bowles
- Mathematics Department, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Birdno M, Vernon B. Mechanical Optimization of an Arteriovenous Malformation Embolization Material: A Predictive Model Analysis. Ann Biomed Eng 2005; 33:191-201. [PMID: 15771272 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-8977-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) pose a constant danger of hemorrhages, seizures, and headaches to patients; they also disrupt oxygen-rich blood flow entering capillaries of the brain. We have utilized a linear model to mechanically characterize and optimize a water-borne, reverse emulsion, self-reactive, in situ cross-linking material, which we propose clinical use as an embolization material. The material is formed by cross-linking various acrylate and thiol multifunctional precursors with NaOH supplemented PBS. We compared theoretical elastic modulus values to modulus values observed during compression testing to determine the cross-linking efficiency of the material. Empirically determined elastic moduli for various material compositions ranged from 0.76 to 2.26 MPa, with corresponding cross-link efficiencies averaging 55+/-4%. We predict a reduction in theoretical circumferential stress exerted on AVM vasculature from 4933 to 10.9 Pa after embolization with the optimal material configuration. Theoretical risk of AVM rupture, as defined by Hademenos et al., was reduced below 1.0% for extreme variations of vessel modulus, thickness, and blood pressure after embolization with the optimized material. We will be using this material configuration to embolize swine rete mirabile AVM models and further assess the clinical viability of this potential embolization material.
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- Merrill Birdno
- Arizona State University, Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Tempe, AZ 85287-9709, USA
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Secca MF, Vilela P, Ferreira JL, Lopes FC, Goulão A. Endovascular Pressure Measurements: Validation with a Pulsatile Flow Model and Haemodynamic Assessment of Brain AVMs. Interv Neuroradiol 2004; 10:281-91. [PMID: 20587211 PMCID: PMC3463287 DOI: 10.1177/159101990401000401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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SUMMARY Intravascular pressure measurements for several types of endovascular catheters were obtained in an in vitro model to validate the pressure readings obtained during the interventional procedures of brain AVM embolization. An experimental model was used where the beat rate, flow and pressures were as close as possible to the average human values of interest. It is shown that the corrections increase with the decreasing inner diameter of the catheter used and with increasing vascular pressure. We have also shown that there were no differences between measurements made with the catheter in the direction of flow or against it. An average pressure reading corrections for the various microcatheters to compensate the readings obtained during in vivo monitoring is presented. The haemodynamic assessment of 81 brain AVMs was performed using the endovascular measurement of arterial pressure in 389 feeding arteries during embolization. Mostly, the feeders' arterial median pressure was half the systemic arterial pressure but there was a wide variability of AV shunts in brain AVMs not only from one brain AVM to another but also within the same brain AVM. Measurement of arterial feeder pressure is an inexpensive, quick and accurate tool to evaluate the type of AV shunts within brain AVM.
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- M Forjaz Secca
- Physics Department, Science and Technology Faculty (CeFITeC), Lisbon University (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, UNL); Portugal -
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Du R, Young WL, Lawton MT. “Tangential” Resection of Medial Temporal Lobe Arteriovenous Malformations with the Orbitozygomatic Approach. Neurosurgery 2004; 54:645-51; discussion 651-2. [PMID: 15028139 DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000109043.56063.ba] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2003] [Accepted: 11/06/2003] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the medial temporal lobe are usually resected through subtemporal-transcortical approaches that provide a trajectory that is perpendicular to the plane of the AVM. The pterional approach is sometimes used for AVMs in the uncus and amygdala, but it is not recommended for AVMs in the hippocampal region because it provides a “tangential” approach with limited access to posterior feeding arteries and draining veins. The orbitozygomatic approach enhances exposure along this tangential trajectory and was used in a consecutive series of 10 patients to determine its advantages.
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During a 5.7-year period, 43 patients underwent resection of temporal lobe AVMs, 10 of which were located in the medial temporal lobe (amygdala and uncus [Region A] or hippocampus, parahippocampus, and fusiform gyrus [Region B]). AVMs were evenly distributed by region and by hemispheric dominance and included two Spetzler-Martin Grade IV lesions. An orbitozygomatic approach was used in all cases.
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Complete resection was accomplished in nine patients, and one patient underwent multimodality management with postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery. Good outcomes (Rankin outcome score ≤2) were observed in all patients, and six patients were improved neurologically at late follow-up (mean, 1.3 yr). No permanent language deficits were produced by this approach.
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The orbitozygomatic approach maximizes the exposure of the tangential approach to medial temporal lobe AVMs and has advantages over traditional lateral approaches. It provides early access to critical feeding arteries from the anterior choroidal artery, posterior cerebral artery, and posterior communicating artery; it minimizes temporal lobe retraction and risk to the vein of Labbé; and it avoids transcortical incisions or lobectomy that might impact language and memory function. For these reasons, it may be the optimal approach for small- and medium-sized compact AVMs in the dominant medial temporal lobe.
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- Rose Du
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0112, USA
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Khurana VG, Perez-Terzic CM, Petersen RC, Krauss WE. Singing paraplegia: a distinctive manifestation of a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula. Neurology 2002; 58:1279-81. [PMID: 11971100 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.58.8.1279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The unique case of a baritone with a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula (SDAVF) causing recurrent, acute paraplegia during singing is described. This case underscores the presence of impaired venous drainage in these lesions and the high level of clinical suspicion required for their diagnosis in patients with any myelopathy.
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- Vini G Khurana
- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Quick CM, Leonard EF, Young WL. Adaptation of Cerebral Circulation to Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Increases Feeding Artery Pressure and Decreases Regional Hypotension. Neurosurgery 2002. [DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200201000-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Quick CM, Leonard EF, Young WL. Adaptation of cerebral circulation to brain arteriovenous malformations increases feeding artery pressure and decreases regional hypotension. Neurosurgery 2002; 50:167-73; discussion 173-5. [PMID: 11844247 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200201000-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2001] [Accepted: 08/24/2001] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To determine how the adaptation of extranidal cerebral vessels affects feeding artery pressure, draining vein pressure, and regional hypotension due to the presence of brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs). CONCEPT BAVMs cause high flows in feeding arteries and draining veins and can induce profound hypotension in the neighboring vasculature. Despite the large difference in flow, endothelial shear stress (tau) observed in vessels ipsilateral to the BAVM is similar to tau in vessels contralateral to the BAVM, suggesting that the conductance vessels successfully adapt to keep tau constant. However, because BAVMs are discovered only after they are well developed, the natural history of the adaptation process in extranidal vessels is unknown. RATIONALE Currently, no way exists to determine experimentally the effects of adaptation of extranidal vessels in human patients. Therefore, a mathematical model of the cerebral vasculature is used to study adaptation in response to BAVMs. By comparing pressures and flows calculated before and after adaptation, the effect of adaptation of the conductance vessels on regional hemodynamics can be evaluated. DISCUSSION Structural adaptation of the extranidal circulation seems not only to reset tau, but also to ameliorate regional hypotension induced by BAVMs. However, this compensatory mechanism also increases feeding artery pressure and thus may increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
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- Christopher M Quick
- Center for Cerebrovascular Research, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Rm. 3C-38, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
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Ogilvy CS, Stieg PE, Awad I, Brown RD, Kondziolka D, Rosenwasser R, Young WL, Hademenos G. AHA Scientific Statement: Recommendations for the management of intracranial arteriovenous malformations: a statement for healthcare professionals from a special writing group of the Stroke Council, American Stroke Association. Stroke 2001; 32:1458-71. [PMID: 11387517 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.6.1458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 283] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Atkinson RP, Awad IA, Batjer HH, Dowd CF, Furlan A, Giannotta SL, Gomez CR, Gress D, Hademenos G, Halbach V, Hemphill JC, Higashida RT, Hopkins LN, Horowitz MB, Johnston SC, Lawton MW, McDermott MW, Malek AM, Mohr JP, Qureshi AI, Riina H, Smith WS, Pile-Spellman J, Spetzler RF, Tomsick TA, Young WL. Reporting terminology for brain arteriovenous malformation clinical and radiographic features for use in clinical trials. Stroke 2001; 32:1430-42. [PMID: 11387510 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.6.1430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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“If you wish to converse with me,” said Voltaire, “define your terms.” How many a debate would have been deflated into a paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms!
Will Durant: The Story of Philosophy
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Ogilvy CS, Stieg PE, Awad I, Brown RD, Kondziolka D, Rosenwasser R, Young WL, Hademenos G. Recommendations for the management of intracranial arteriovenous malformations: a statement for healthcare professionals from a special writing group of the Stroke Council, American Stroke Association. Circulation 2001; 103:2644-57. [PMID: 11382737 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.103.21.2644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Morgan M, Winder M. Haemodynamics of arteriovenous malformations of the brain and consequences of resection: a review. J Clin Neurosci 2001; 8:216-24. [PMID: 11386794 DOI: 10.1054/jocn.2000.0795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The physiological manifestations of arteriovenous fistulae in humans have been studied since the 18th century. However, confusion regarding concepts of cerebral 'steal', 'normal perfusion breakthrough', and 'congestive hyperaemia' continue. Although the advent of more accurate monitoring of pressures and flows within the brain has provided useful information to help understand some of these proposed pathological hypotheses, disagreement still exists. The purpose of this review is to examine the current physiological data in attempt to explain the clinicopathological manifestations of arteriovenous malformations of the brain and the consequences of their removal.
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- M Morgan
- North and West Cerebrovascular Unit, Department of Surgery, The University of Sydney, Australia
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Van Roost D, Schramm J. What factors are related to impairment of cerebrovascular reserve before and after arteriovenous malformation resection? A cerebral blood flow study using xenon-enhanced computed tomography. Neurosurgery 2001; 48:709-16; discussion 716-7. [PMID: 11322430 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200104000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence and possible determinants of impaired vascular reserve in arteriovenous malformation (AVM)-affected brain, before and after surgery. METHODS In a prospective study of 30 patients, the regional cerebrovascular reserve capacity (rCRC) and the vasodilated regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were assessed during an acetazolamide challenge, using xenon-enhanced computed tomography, before and after complete AVM resection. Single brain slices at the level of the basal ganglia were examined, and scanning through the AVMs was avoided. Five regions of interest in the AVM-bearing hemisphere were compared with their counterparts in the unaffected hemisphere. Vasodilated rCBF reductions of at least 20% in one or more regions of interest and rCRC values of less than 10 ml/100 g/min were considered to be significant. RESULTS Ipsilateral vasodilated rCBF was significantly reduced in 17 patients before surgery and 15 patients after surgery. Ipsilateral rCRC was impaired in 14 patients before surgery and 12 patients after surgery. Large AVM size, venous congestion, and AVM-related vascular territories were correlated with impaired vascular reserve in AVM-nonadjacent brain tissue before surgery. Similar correlations were observed after surgery, except that not AVM size but a large number of AVM-supplying vascular territories was correlated. Moreover, the smallest AVMs and those supplied by a single vascular territory, as well as hemorrhage and nonhemorrhagic neurological deficits as presenting symptoms, were correlated with reduced ipsilateral vasodilated rCBF before surgery. Among patients with AVMs and nonhemorrhagic epilepsy, a trend of impaired cerebrovascular reserve was observed. In the only case of postresectional "breakthrough," the preoperative rCRC was not impaired but abnormally high. CONCLUSION Among the determinants of impaired cerebrovascular reserve, AVM size is already a constituent of current grading scales and decision-making paradigms, whereas factors such as venous congestion have been less closely considered or less obvious but may deserve increased attention in the future. Nonhemorrhagic epilepsy in patients with AVMs may constitute the clinical equivalent of chronic cerebral ischemia in a murine model. Postresectional breakthrough may be partly attributable to individual predisposition to excessive vasoreactivity in the whole brain.
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- D Van Roost
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Van Roost D, Schramm J. What Factors Are Related to Impairment of Cerebrovascular Reserve before and after Arteriovenous Malformation Resection? A Cerebral Blood Flow Study Using Xenon-enhanced Computed Tomography. Neurosurgery 2001. [DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200104000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Norris JS, Valiante TA, Wallace MC, Willinsky RA, Montanera WJ, terBrugge KG, Tymianski M. A simple relationship between radiological arteriovenous malformation hemodynamics and clinical presentation: a prospective, blinded analysis of 31 cases. J Neurosurg 1999; 90:673-9. [PMID: 10193612 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1999.90.4.0673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECT The authors sought to establish prospectively whether there is a simple relationship between radiological features of brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) hemodynamics and a patient's clinical presentation. METHODS Thirty-one consecutive patients with AVMs underwent cerebral angiography at 3.8 frames/second during each standardized injection of contrast material. Contrast dilution curves were derived from the image sequences by using regions of interest (ROIs) traced on arteries feeding and veins draining the AVM nidus. Angiographic parameters were then analyzed in a blinded fashion. These parameters included the times required to reach the peak contrast density, the contrast decay time, and fractions thereof, in the ROI for each vessel. The authors determined whether these parameters, the arteriovenous transit time, and/or AVM size were related to patients' presentation with hemorrhage (11 patients), seizure (11 patients), or other clinical symptoms (nine patients). Statistically significant results were found only in analyses of arterial phase times to reach peak contrast density. Analyses of venous parameters, AVM size, and nidus transit time showed trends but no statistical significance. Arterial filling with contrast material was significantly slower in patients presenting with hemorrhage (mean 50%, 80%, and 100% of time to peak +/- standard error [SE] = 1.19+/-0.13, 1.97+/-0.18, and 3.04+/-0.34 seconds, respectively) compared with patients presenting with seizures (mean 50%, 80%, and 100% of time to peak +/- SE = 0.80+/-0.12, 1.32+/-0.18, and 1.95+/-0.29 seconds, respectively) according to analysis of variance (p<0.05) and post-hoc t-tests (p<0.05) for each parameter. Patients who presented with other symptoms had intermediate arterial filling times. CONCLUSIONS These simple hemodynamic parameters, which can be obtained without added risk to the patient, may help identify a subset of individuals in whom AVMs pose a higher risk of future hemorrhage and who may therefore warrant more expeditious treatment.
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- J S Norris
- University of Toronto Brain Vascular Malformation Study Group, Ontario, Canada
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Pile-Spellman J, Young WL, Joshi S, Duong H, Vang MC, Hartmann A, Kahn RA, Rubin DA, Prestigiacomo CJ, Ostapkovich ND. Adenosine-induced cardiac pause for endovascular embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: technical case report. Neurosurgery 1999; 44:881-6; discussion 886-7. [PMID: 10201317 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199904000-00117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Extremely high flow through arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may limit the safety and effectiveness of endovascular glue therapy. To achieve a more controlled deposition of glue, we used transient but profound systemic hypotension afforded by an intravenously administered bolus of adenosine to induce rapidly reversible high-degree atrioventricular block. METHODS AND CASE REPORT A patient with a large high-flow occipital AVM fed primarily by the posterior cerebral artery underwent n-butyl cyanoacrylate glue embolization. Nitroprusside-induced systemic hypotension did not adequately reduce flow through the nidus, as determined by contrast injection in the feeding artery. In a dose-escalation fashion, boluses of adenosine were administered to optimize the dose and verify that there was no flow reversal in the AVM and no other unexpected hemodynamic abnormalities by arterial pressure measurements and transcranial Doppler monitoring of the posterior cerebral artery feeding the AVM. Thereafter, 64 mg of adenosine was rapidly injected as a bolus to provide 10 to 15 seconds of systemic hypotension (approximately 20 mm Hg). Although there were conducted beats and some residual forward flow through the AVM during this time, the mean systemic and feeding artery pressures were roughly similar and remained relatively constant. A slow controlled injection of n-butyl cyanoacrylate glue was then performed, with excellent filling of the nidus. CONCLUSION Adenosine-induced cardiac pause may be a viable method of partial flow arrest in the treatment of cerebral AVMs. Safe, deep, and complete embolization with a permanent agent may increase the likelihood of endovascular therapy's being curative or may further improve the safety of microsurgical resection.
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- J Pile-Spellman
- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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Gao E, Young WL, Hademenos GJ, Massoud TF, Sciacca RR, Ma Q, Joshi S, Mast H, Mohr JP, Vulliemoz S, Pile-Spellman J. Theoretical modelling of arteriovenous malformation rupture risk: a feasibility and validation study. Med Eng Phys 1998; 20:489-501. [PMID: 9832025 DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4533(98)00059-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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PURPOSE To explore the feasibility of using a theoretical computational model to simulate the risk of spontaneous arteriovenous malformation (AVM) haemorrhage. METHODS Data from 12 patients were collected from a prospective databank which documented the angioarchitecture and morphological characteristics of the AVM and the feeding mean arterial pressure (FMAP) measured during initial superselective angiography prior to any treatment. Using the data, a computational model of the cerebral circulation and the AVM was constructed for each patient (patient-specific model). Two model risk (Risk(model)) calculations (haemodynamic- and structural-weighted estimates) were performed by using the patient-specific models. In our previously developed method of haemodynamic-weighted estimate, Risk(model) was calculated with the simulated intranidal pressures related to its maximal and minimal values. In the method of structural-weighted estimate developed and described in this paper, the vessel mechanical properties and probability calculation were considered in more detail than in the haemodynamic-weighted estimate. Risk(model) was then compared to experimentally determined risk which was calculated using a statistical method for determining the relative risk of having initially presented with AVM haemorrhage, termed Risk(exp). RESULTS The Risk(model) calculated by both haemodynamic- and structural-weighted estimates correlated with experimental risks with chi2 = 6.0 and 0.64, respectively. The risks of the structural-weighted estimate were more correlated to experimental risks. CONCLUSIONS Using two different approaches to the calculation of AVM haemorrhage risk, we found a general agreement with independent statistical estimates of haemorrhagic risk based on patient data. Computational approaches are feasible; future work can focus on specific pathomechanistic questions. Detailed patient-specific computational models can also be developed as an adjunct to individual patient risk assessment for risk-stratification purposes.
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- E Gao
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Murayama Y, Massoud TF, Viñuela F. Hemodynamic changes in arterial feeders and draining veins during embolotherapy of arteriovenous malformations: an experimental study in a swine model. Neurosurgery 1998; 43:96-104; discussion 104-6. [PMID: 9657195 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199807000-00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Transcatheter assessment of changes in draining vein (DV) flow velocity has been proposed recently as a potentially useful procedure for hemodynamic monitoring of the progression of embolotherapy in cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). We compared and contrasted changes in hemodynamic parameters of arterial feeders (AFs) and DVs during experimental AVM embolotherapy. METHODS Carotid-jugular fistula-type AVM models were surgically created in eight swine. Pre- and postembolization transcatheter mean AF and DV pressures, DV-time average spectral peak velocity, and AF and DV pulsatility indices were assessed. An expression, the peak systolic velocity minus end-diastolic velocity (Vs - Ved), was also used in evaluating the transvenous Doppler spectra. Pre- and postembolization hemodynamic parameters were compared statistically. RESULTS Pre-embolization DV flow was pulsatile (Vs - Ved, 12 +/- 4.8 cm/s), with a mean DV velocity of 39.3 +/- 11.4 cm per second. Postembolization, this changed to a less/nonpulsatile pattern (Vs - Ved, 5.4 +/- 2.7 cm/s; P = 0.0035) with a lower mean DV-average spectral peak velocity of 7.0 +/- 3.1 cm per second (P = 0.0001). The mean DV pressure was also reduced from 52.0 +/- 8.2 to 45.5 +/- 8.7 mm Hg (P = 0.0023). The mean AF pressure increased from a mean of 79.5 +/- 15.5 to 96.8 +/- 16.2 mm Hg (P = 0.0004). The DV pulsatility index values also increased from a mean of 0.3 +/- 0.2 to 1.1 +/- 0.5 (P = 0.0003). Periembolization objective hemodynamic changes were detected in the DVs earlier than were the visually subjective angiographic changes observed within the nidus. CONCLUSION This preliminary study indicates that transvenous assessment of average spectral peak velocity and wave pattern (Vs - Ved) may be useful in the hemodynamic evaluation of AVM shunting. The convergence of these two parameters to a range less than 10 cm per second after nidus embolization may afford a theoretical advantage over AF pressure measurements when used for objective and quantitative monitoring of endovascular embolotherapy.
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- Y Murayama
- Division of Interventional Neuroradiology and Leo G. Rigler Radiological Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, 90024, USA
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Duong DH, Young WL, Vang MC, Sciacca RR, Mast H, Koennecke HC, Hartmann A, Joshi S, Mohr JP, Pile-Spellman J. Feeding artery pressure and venous drainage pattern are primary determinants of hemorrhage from cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Stroke 1998; 29:1167-76. [PMID: 9626290 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.29.6.1167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to define the influence of feeding mean arterial pressure (FMAP) in conjunction with other morphological or clinical risk factors in determining the probability of hemorrhagic presentation in patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). METHODS Clinical and angiographic data from 340 patients with cerebral AVMs from a prospective database were reviewed. Patients were identified in whom FMAP was measured during superselective angiography. Additional variables analyzed included AVM size, location, nidus border, presence of aneurysms, and arterial supply and venous drainage patterns. The presence of arterial aneurysms was also correlated with site of bleeding on imaging studies. RESULTS By univariate analysis, exclusively deep venous drainage, periventricular venous drainage, posterior fossa location, and FMAP predicted hemorrhagic presentation. When we used stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis in the cohort that had FMAP measurements (n = 129), only exclusively deep venous drainage (odds ratio [OR], 3.7; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4 to 9.8) and FMAP (OR, 1.4 per 10 mm Hg increase; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.8) were independent predictors (P < 0.01) of hemorrhagic presentation; size, location, and the presence of aneurysms were not independent predictors. There was also no association (P = 0.23) between the presence of arterial aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage. CONCLUSIONS High arterial input pressure (FMAP) and venous outflow restriction (exclusively deep venous drainage) were the most powerful risk predictors for hemorrhagic AVM presentation. Our findings suggest that high intranidal pressure is more important than factors such as size, location, and the presence of arterial aneurysms in the pathophysiology of AVM hemorrhage.
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- D H Duong
- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Young WL. Cerebral aneurysms: current anaesthetic management and future horizons. Can J Anaesth 1998; 45:R17-31. [PMID: 9599673 DOI: 10.1007/bf03019204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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- W L Young
- Department of Anesthesiology (in Neurological Surgery and in Radiology), College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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