Analyze Publications Database

Net Water Uptake Calculated in Standardized and Blindly Outlined Regions of the Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Predicts the Development of Malignant Edema in Patients With Acute Large Hemispheric Infarction

Hai-Bin Xu et al. Net Water Uptake Calculated in Standardized and Blindly Outlined Regions of the Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Predicts the Development of Malignant Edema in Patients With Acute Large Hemispheric Infarction Frontiers in Neurology.

Publication Date
March 12, 2021

How Analyze was Used
“…the extension line of the anterior horn of the lateral ventricle was set as the anterior boundary, and the extension line of the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle as the posterior one, while the outer edge of the brain cortex was set as the outer boundary, and inter edge of the caput nuclei caudate and posterior limb of the internal capsule as the inter boundary. Then, the mean density of the outlined MCA territory was measured and recorded as Dischemic, while the mean density of a mirrored region at the contralateral side was measured and recorded as Dnormal using commercially available software (Analyze 14.0). Both density measurements were sampled between 20 and 80 Hounsfield units to avoid intracranial calcifications and cerebral fluid and were eventually used to calculate NWU according to the method reported in a previous study.”

Keywords
Net water uptake, Large hemispheric infarction, Malignant edema, Area under curve, Prediction power

Author Affiliation(s)
General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, ShenYang, China

Tags: , , , ,