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. 2020 Sep;22(3):400-402.
doi: 10.5853/jos.2020.01004. Epub 2020 Sep 29.

Early Fluid Attenuation Inversion Recovery Sulcal Contrast Enhancement Correlates with Severity of Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome

Ze'ev Itsekson-Hayosh  1   2 , Galia Tsarfati  3 , Gahl Greenberg  3 , Michal Sharon  3 , Mati Bakon  3 , Anton Wohl  4 , Joab Chapman  1   2   5 , David Orion  1   2
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Early Fluid Attenuation Inversion Recovery Sulcal Contrast Enhancement Correlates with Severity of Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome

Ze'ev Itsekson-Hayosh et al. J Stroke. 2020 Sep.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Grades of sulcal contrast enhancement (arrows) in four represenataive reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome patients according to increasing enhancement severity. (A) Enhancement score of 1. (B) Enhancement score of 2. (C) Enhancement score of 2, different anatomic locus. (D) Enhancement score of 4.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
(A) Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) severity score to composite neurological outcome score (Pearson’s correlation analysis). (B, C) Subanalysis of MRI fluid attenuation inversion recovery (FLAIR) correlation to the degree of vasospasm. (D) Correlation of MRI timing on MRI FLAIR enhancement (Pearson’s correlation analysis, negative values represent acquisition prior to development of vasospasm in days). CI, confidence interval; CE FLAIR, contrast enhanced FLAIR; TCCD, transcranial color Doppler.
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