Clinical MRI interpretation for outcome prediction in cardiac arrest.

Neurocritical Care
David M GreerKaren Furie

Abstract

In clinical practice, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is commonly used to assess the severity of a cardiac arrest patient's cerebral injury, utilizing treating neurologists' imaging interpretation. We sought to determine whether clinical interpretation of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) helps to determine poor outcome in comatose cardiac arrest patients. We analyzed 80 consecutive MRIs from patients in coma following cardiac arrest. Each study was graded as "normal" or "abnormal restricted diffusion" in pre-specified brain regions by two blinded stroke neurologists. Poor outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score >4 at 3 months. Formal interpretations of neuroimaging by non-blinded neuroradiologists were compared with the blinded reviews by the stroke neurologists. DWI abnormalities were highly sensitive (98.5 %) but only modestly specific (46.2 %) for predicting poor neurological outcome. Inter-observer reliability was moderate (kappa = 0.49 ± 0.32), with 91 % agreement between study observers, and no significant differences in study observers' interpretations (p = 0.125). There were, however, significant differences between the study observers and the clinical neuroradiologists in identifying studies showing...Continue Reading

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