Multi-parametric ultrasound criteria for internal carotid artery disease-comparison with CT angiography.
Neuroradiology
; 58(9): 845-51, 2016 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
The German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (known by its acronym DEGUM) recently proposed a novel multi-parametric ultrasound approach for comprehensive and accurate assessment of extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) steno-occlusive disease. We determined the agreement between duplex ultrasonography (DUS) interpreted by the DEGUM criteria and CT angiography (CTA) for grading of extracranial ICA steno-occlusive disease.METHODS:
Consecutive patients with acute cerebral ischemia underwent DUS and CTA. Internal carotid artery stenosis was graded according to the DEGUM-recommended criteria for DUS. Independent readers manually performed North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial-type measurements on axial CTA source images. Both modalities were compared using Spearman's correlation and Bland-Altman analyses.RESULTS:
A total of 303 acute cerebral ischemia patients (mean age, 72 ± 12 years; 58 % men; median baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score, 4 [interquartile range 7]) provided 593 DUS and CTA vessel pairs for comparison. There was a positive correlation between DUS and CTA (r s = 0.783, p < 0.001) with mean difference in degree of stenosis measurement of 3.57 %. Bland-Altman analysis further revealed widely varying differences (95 % limits of agreement -29.26 to 22.84) between the two modalities.CONCLUSION:
Although the novel DEGUM criteria showed overall good agreement between DUS and CTA across all stenosis ranges, potential for wide incongruence with CTA underscores the need for local laboratory validation to avoid false screening results.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Interpretação de Imagem Assistida por Computador
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Doenças das Artérias Carótidas
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Ultrassonografia Doppler Dupla
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Acidente Vascular Cerebral
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Imagem Multimodal
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Angiografia por Tomografia Computadorizada
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Evaluation_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article