원저 : 뇌동맥류파열에 의한 지주막하 출혈환자의 예후평가에 있어서 아세타졸아미드 부하 뇌혈류 SPECT 의 유용성 ( Original Articles : Utility of Acetazolamide - Enhanced Brain Perfusion SPECT in Predicting Outcome of the Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid () |
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최윤영(Yun Young Choi),김재민(Jae Min Kim),김광명(Kwang Myung Kim),최일승(Il Seung Choe),조석신(Suk Shin Cho), |
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Purpose: Vasospasm is a complication of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). We assessed the role of acetazolamide-enhanced brain perfusion SPECT (ACZ-SPECT) with Tc-99rn ECD for predicting the prognosis of patients with aSAH. Materials and methods: Two SPECT studies (baseline with 740 MBq and ACZ-SPECT with 1480 MBq) with image subtraction were performed in 21 patients with aSAH. All patients had brain CT and angiogram. Vasoreactivity on ACZ-SPECT, perfusion defect on baseline SPECT, and vasospasm on angiogram were correlated with Hunt-Hess grading, extent of SAH (unilateral or bilateral) on CT, and clinical outcome. Vasoreactivity was considered decreased when cerebral/cerebellar uptake ratio difference from baseline SPECT to ACZ-SPECT was greater than 2SD of normal control values. Results: Decreased vasoreactivity was observed in 38% (8/21), perfusion defect in 81% (17/21), and vasospasm in 38% (8/21). The preserved vasoreactivity group showed better outcorne scale (92%, 12/13) and the decreased vasoreactivity group showed poorer outcome scale (62.5%, 5/8) (p=0.014). Extensive SAH was more frequently seen in the decreased vasoreactivity group (87.5%, 7/8) than in the preserved vasoreactivity group (30.7%, 4/13)(p=0.017). The perfusion defect and vasospasm did not show good correlation with outcome scale, extent of SAH, and Hunt-Hess grading (p=ns). Vasoreactivity represented the patient's outcorne better than the vasospasm in all of the vasoreactivity/vasospasm-mismatched cases (6 cases). Conclusions: Our data show that decreased vasoreactivity on ACZ-SPECT does not always represent vasospastic condition. But patients with decreased vasoreactivity reveal poorer outcome than patients with angiographic vasospasm do. Therefore ACZ-SPECT is a valuable, noninvasive test for predicting the prognosis of patients with aSAH. (Korean J Nucl Med 2001-35:241-250) |
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Tc - 99m ECD , Brain SPECT , Acetazolamide , Vasoreactivity , Subarachnoid Hemorrhage , Vasospasm |
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