Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2017

TCD profile of patients with acute MCA stroke and correlation with outcome

Sritharan B, Jason Ambrose F

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 The aims of this study are to assess the transcranial doppler profile of patients presenting with acute middle cereal artery territory stroke and look for any correlation between doppler findings and outcome at one month. We recruited 25 patients. According to doppler findings, patients were classified as having no lesion, middle cereal artery lesion, internal carotid lesion, extracranial lesion and combined intracranial and extracranial lesions. Good outcome was defined as atleast a 4 point improvement in the NIH score at 1 month. We found that 8 patients had no evidence of arterial occlusion on doppler and 17 had atleast 1 occlusion. There was a trend towards better outcome in the group with no arterial occlusion. Patients with combined intracranial and extracranial occlusion had a poor outcome. This suggests that TCD could potentially be used as a tool to predict outcome after MCA territory stroke and to predict in– hospital worsening. However at this stage the numbers are not sufficient to reach statistical significance. 

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Sritharan B, Jason Ambrose F, TCD profile of patients with acute MCA stroke and correlation with outcome, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾7 | July‾2017

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