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Observational Study
. 2022 Mar;26(6):1939-1944.
doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202203_28341.

Diagnostic value of cerebral vasospasm by transcranial doppler ultrasound in Vietnamese patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage

H-K Vo  1 , V-T Le, V-L Nguyen, X-C Dao, D-H Duong, T-L Trinh, V-T Nguyen, H-L Vo, C-H Nguyen, V-L Tran, A-T Nguyen, V-T Hoang, T-A Truong, T-B Nguyen, B-C Chu, T-M Le, T-T-H Dao, T-H Duong, H-Q Ha, T-P-L Trinh, T-T Truong, V-D Phan, T-N-L Pham, T-H Phuong, Q-C Le
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Observational Study

Diagnostic value of cerebral vasospasm by transcranial doppler ultrasound in Vietnamese patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage

H-K Vo et al. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2022 Mar.
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Abstract

Objective: Although the application of transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography in clinical diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm is popular in clinical practice in Vietnam, available evidence of the predictive value of vasospasm on TCD in the literature was mostly reported from large institutions in developed countries. Hence, this study was conducted to evaluate the value of TCD ultrasonography in the diagnosis of vasospasm in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in Vietnam.

Patients and methods: This is a prospective observational study of all aneurysmal SAH patients consecutively admitted to a single center between 2008 and December 2011. TCD and 64-slice computed tomographic angiography (CTA) were used to cerebral vasospasm in SAH patients.

Results: 316 patients were analyzed (mean age = 52.97±12.27 years, 52.2% males). There were statistically significant difference rates of the cerebral vasospasm by Hunt and Hess Classification and Fisher classification (p <0.01). The proportion of the patients with cerebral vasospasm who were diagnosed exactly by TCD was 95.2%, while the proportion of the patients without cerebral vasospasm diagnosed exactly was 91.5%. TCD predictive diagnostic value was the highest, with the sensitivity of 0.95 (95% CI: 0.91-0.98), specificity of 0.91 (95% CI: 0.85-0.96), positive predictive value of 0.94 (5% CI: 0.90-0.97) and negative predictive value of 0.93 (95 CI: 0.87-0.97). Hemiplegia was the clinical symptom with the highest diagnostic value with the sensitivity of 0.34 (95% CI: 0.27-0.41), specificity of 0.92 (95% CI: 0.86-0.96), positive predictive value of 0.86 (95% CI: 0.76-0.93) and negative predictive value of 0.49 (95% CI: 0.41-0.54).

Conclusions: Evidence of vasospasm diagnosis on TCD ultrasonography was found with high accuracy. Current study enables to suggest the wide application of TCD in Vietnam health facilities from central to grassroots levels instead of the CTA use.

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