Accuracy of transcranial color-coded duplex sonography in predicting clinical vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage

• DOI: 10.1186/cc13652
• Publication Date: 2014-03-17T12:10:58Z
• Authors: F Di Corte; S Pifferi; L Capuano; S Magnoni; V Conte; F Ortolano; N Stocchetti
• Keywords: Cerebral Vasospasm; Transcranial Doppler

Cerebral vasospasm (VSP) and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) play a central role in worsening the neurological outcome patients with aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) [1]. Transcranial color-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) is non-invasive tool to detect VSP predict DCI, but its clinical utility limited by low accuracy. Our aim was perform sensitivity/specificity analysis of TCCS predicting DCI.