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Cerebrovascular Reactivity Assays Collateral Function in Carotid Stenosis

In patients with carotid artery stenosis (CAS), the risk of stroke, its severity, and response to revascularization are strongly related to the availability of collateral blood flow. Unfortunately, there is poor agreement between observers in assessing collateral flow using flow-based imaging. We us...

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Published in:Frontiers in physiology 2020-09, Vol.11, p.1031-1031
Main Authors: Sobczyk, Olivia, Sam, Kevin, Mandell, Daniel M., Crawley, Adrian P., Venkatraghavan, Lakshmikumar, McKetton, Larissa, Poublanc, Julien, Duffin, James, Fisher, Joseph A., Mikulis, David J.
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Summary:In patients with carotid artery stenosis (CAS), the risk of stroke, its severity, and response to revascularization are strongly related to the availability of collateral blood flow. Unfortunately, there is poor agreement between observers in assessing collateral flow using flow-based imaging. We used changes in blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) MRI as a surrogate of changes in regional cerebral blood flow in response to a hypercapnic stimulus [i.e., cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR)] as indicating flow reserve ipsilateral to CAS. We hypothesized that some patients with hemodynamically significant CAS develop functional collateral flow as indicated by normalization of ipsilateral CVR. We identified 55 patients in our CVR database with various degrees of CAS assessed by angiography and classed them as 90% stenosis, and full occlusion. CVR was measured as the change in BOLD signal in response to changes in end-tidal partial pressure of CO 2 (Δ BOLD/Δ PETCO 2 ) and normalized voxel-wise relative to the mean and standard deviation of the CVR in the corresponding voxels of an atlas of 46 healthy controls (CVR z scores). CVR and z scores were then averaged over gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) on each side of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory. As hypothesized, CVR varied for each severity of CAS. Ipsilateral MCA territory CVR was less than normal in each class, including that with
ISSN:1664-042X
1664-042X
DOI:10.3389/fphys.2020.01031