Atherosclerotic plaque burden of middle cerebral artery and extracranial carotid artery characterized by MRI in patients with acute ischemic stroke in China: association and clinical relevance.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:This study sought to compare the atherosclerotic plaque burden between middle cerebral artery (MCA) and extracranial carotid artery (ECA) in ischemic stroke patients using high-resolution, black-blood (HR BB) MRI and to investigate the relationship between plaque burden found in both arteries and stroke severity. METHODS:All subjects with recent ischemic stroke underwent MCA and ECA HR BB MRI at 3.0 Tesla. For each artery segment, the thickness, area and signal intensities of plaques were recorded. Plaque burden, as measured by normalized wall index (NWI = wall area/total vessel area × 100%) were calculated. All patients received a clinical stroke severity score as measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores at the time of admission. RESULTS:A total of 65 stroke subjects were included in the final analysis. MCA exhibited significantly greater NWI than the ipsilateral ECA (symptomatic MCA vs. ECA: 58.04 ± 8.19 vs. 37.53 ± 10.25, p < 0.001; asymptomatic MCA vs. ECA: 53.80 ± 4.49 vs. 34.85 ± 4.27, p < 0.001, respectively). NWI in symptomatic MCA and ECA were significantly associated with NIHSS scores (r = 0.779 vs. 0.645; p < 0.001 respectively). Moreover, stronger statistical correlations between NIHSS scores and NWI were found in MCA, as compared with ECA during multivariate linear regression analysis. CONCLUSION:Greater atherosclerotic plaque burden and a closer association with stroke severity were found for the MCA as compared to the ipsilateral ECA. Identification of MCA plaque lesions by MRI may be helpful for developing more aggressive strategies for stroke prevention.

journal_name

Neurol Res

journal_title

Neurological research

authors

Cao Y,Sun Y,Zhou B,Zhao H,Zhu Y,Xu J,Liu X

doi

10.1080/01616412.2017.1281196

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-04-01 00:00:00

pages

344-350

issue

4

eissn

0161-6412

issn

1743-1328

journal_volume

39

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