Magnitude of Hematoma Volume Measurement Error in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Autor: Brendan Diederichs, Michael D. Hill, Carlos A. Molina, Evgenia Klourfeld, Patricia Jo, Richard I. Aviv, David Rodriguez-Luna, Matthew Boyko, Jayme C. Kosior, Andrew M. Demchuk, Suresh Subramaniam, Dar Dowlatshahi
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Stroke. 47:1124-1126
ISSN: 1524-4628
0039-2499
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.115.012170
Popis: Background and Purpose— Limiting intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) expansion is a common target for acute ICH studies and, therefore, accurate measurement of hematoma volumes is required. We investigated the amount of hematoma volume difference between computed tomography scans that can be considered as measurement error. Methods— Five raters performed baseline ( Results— Total hematoma volumetric analyses had excellent intra- and interrater agreements (intraclass correlation coefficients 0.994 and 0.992, respectively). MDD for intra- and interrater volumes was 6.68 and 7.72 mL, respectively, and were higher the larger total hematoma volume was and in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage or IVH. MDD for total hematoma volume measurement of 10.4 mL was found in patients with largest hematoma volumes. In patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage or IVH, MDD for total hematoma volume was 10.3 and 10.4 mL, respectively. In patients without IVH, MDD for intra- and interrater pure ICH volumes were 3.82 and 5.83 mL, respectively. Conclusions— A threshold higher than 10.4 mL seems to be reliable to avoid error of total hematoma volume measurement in a broad range of patients. An absolute ICH volume increase of >6 mL, commonly used as outcome in ICH studies, seems well above MDD and, therefore, could be used to reliably detect ICH expansion.
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