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Submitted on November 4, 2002
Accepted on November 28, 2002

Prediction of Hyperperfusion After Carotid Endarterectomy by Brain SPECT Analysis With Semiquantitative Statistical Mapping Method

Kohkichi Hosoda MD^*; Tetsuro Kawaguchi MD; Kazunari Ishii MD; Satoshi Minoshima MD; Yuji Shibata MD; Masaki Iwakura MD; Shigeo Ishiguro MD; and Eiji Kohmura MD

From the Department of Neurosurgery (K.H., T.K., Y.S., M.I., S.I.) and Department of Radiology (K.I.), Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji, Japan; Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle (S.M.); and Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe University School of Medicine (E.K.), Kobe, Japan.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: khosoda{at}venus.dti.ne.jp.

Background and Purpose--Hyperperfusion syndrome is a rare but disastrous complication after carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between preoperative cerebral blood flow (CBF) abnormalities and postoperative hyperperfusion through the use of statistical brain mapping analysis.

Methods--For 41 patients with unilateral carotid stenosis 70%, CBF and cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) were investigated with resting and acetazolamide-challenge single photon emission CT before CEA. CBF 1 day after CEA was also measured. Three-dimensional stereotactic surface projection (3D-SSP) analysis of CBF changes was performed by use of a control database of 20 subjects.

Results--Patients with reduced CVR (CVR <10%, n=15) were categorized into 2 groups based on the severity of CBF reduction relative to the control database by 3D-SSP analysis without normalization: type I (ipsilateral CBF decrease <20%, n=8) and type II (ipsilateral CBF decrease 20%, n=7). With thalamic normalization, the patients were also categorized into 2 groups: type A (ipsilateral Z score 2, n=10) and type B (ipsilateral Z score >2, n=5). Severe CBF reduction (20% or Z score >2) was significantly associated with postoperative hyperperfusion (CBF increase 100%). However, 3D-SSP with thalamic normalization (Z score) demonstrated a higher predictive value (80%) and specificity (91%) for hyperperfusion than 3D-SSP without normalization (percent reduction) (57% and 73%, respectively). No patients with normal CVR (CVR 10%, n=26) demonstrated postoperative hyperperfusion.

Conclusions--Objective evaluation of abnormalities of CBF and CVR with 3D-SSP could identify patients at risk for postoperative hyperperfusion.

Key words: brain • carotid endarterectomy • carotid stenosis • tomography, emission-computed, single-photon

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