Cerebral perfusion reserve in carotid stenosis: Prognostic role in surgical and rheological therapy
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The study was aimed to evaluate the usefulness of the quantitative cerebral perfusion reserve SPECT for the prognosis in patients with critical stenoses of the internal carotid arteries treated surgically or rheotherapeutically. 23 patients with angiographically verified mono (n=12) or bilateral (n=11) stenosis of the internal carotid artery for more than 75% and with recent (>30 days) minor stroke or TIA events in anamnesis were referred for the study. 6 age-matched healthy persons served as controls. In everybody the cerebral perfusion reserve was studied by using of the local cerebral blood volume to cerebral blood flow (rCBV/rCBF, sec) index using a double isotope technique which combined Tl-199 diethyidithiocarbamate (Tl-199-DDC) SPECT with Tc-99m red blood cells (Tc-99m-RBC) SPECT. 12 patients underwent carotid endartherectomy and 11 were treated rheotherapeutically by nonselective plasma substitution (5 times x 400 ml, >1800 nil in total). Patients were studied twicely: before and 10 days after the treatment, and then followed-up neurologically in the course of 1 year. Patients who had regional rCBV/rCBF index increased in the stenosed a.carotis int. - dependent region before treatment (normal value 5.2, sd 0.2 sec) have got it significantly decreased after intervention both in surgical group (from 7.1, sd 0.4 sec, down to 5.3, sd 0.3 sec, p<0.01 n=7) and in rheotherapeutical one (from 7.3, sd 0.5 sec, to 5.9, sd 0.4 sec, p<0.02 n=8). In everybody who expressed the rCBV/rCBF decreased below 5.6 sec after intervention there were no cerebrovascular ischemic events observed in the course of 12 months after carotid surgery and during 5 months in patients treated by plasmapheresis. We conclude that rCBV/rCBF SPECT index gives an independent prognostic information useful for both rheologic and surgical treatment of cerebrovascular disease; and that plasmapheresis suppress the short-term rise of cerebral ischemic events, which effect is predictable by SPECT.
- OSTI ID:
- 198054
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940605-; ISSN 0161-5505; TRN: 95:007029-0203
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 35, Issue Suppl.5; Conference: 41. annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Orlando, FL (United States), 5-8 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: May 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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