Intracranial MR angiography: Its role in the integrated approach to brain infarction
- Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ (United States)
To determine the contribution of cranial MR angiography (MRA) for the evaluation of patients with acute and subacute brain infarction. MR and MRA studies performed on 78 adult patients with acute and subacute stroke were retrospectively reviewed and correlated with the clinical records. There were 50 acute and 28 subacute infarctions in our series. Five of 78 MRA exams (6%) were nondiagnostic. Sixty examinations (80%) were positive for stenosis or occlusion. The distribution of stenotic or occlusive vascular lesions correlated with the location of infarction in 56 of the 60 positive cases (93%). MRA provided information not obtained from the MR images in 40 cases (55%). One hundred four individual vessels in 8 patients who underwent conventional cerebral angiography were compared with the MRA appearance. The MRA interpretations correlated with the conventional angiographic evaluations for 90 vessels (87%). Vascular lesions demonstrated on intracranial MRA show a high correlation with infarct distribution. MRA provides information adjunctive to conventional MR in a majority of cases. We conclude that MRA is an important component of the complete evaluation of brain infarction. 39 refs., 3 figs., 2 tabs.
- OSTI ID:
- 50591
- Journal Information:
- AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol. 15, Issue 5; Other Information: PBD: May 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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