BRUSH Sign: Radiolographic Marker of Cerebral Infarctus Prognosis

Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Infarction

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Brush sign

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03467269

BRUSH SIGN

Details and patient eligibility

About

Today the treatment of ischemic stroke in acute phase is based on medicinal or endovascular revascularization. Cerebral MRI sequences help the diagnostic. This procedure uses deoxyhemoglobin as an endogenous tracer. This is also a scorer of cerebral ischemia and the increase lets visualized transcerebral veins in the suffering zone giving a brush aspect. Several studies show the interest of this sign and conclude that deoxyhemoglobin presence is a predictive factor of cerebral ischemia. The aim of the study is to evaluate this brush-sign and correlate it with the prognosis retrospectively.

Enrollment: 250 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age>18 years old
• hospitalized for cerebral infarction
• MCA territory
• MRI within 24hours
• Sequence of magnetic susceptibility (SWAN)

Exclusion criteria

• Incomplete cerebral infarct
• MRI not possible