Reliability and Clinical Correlation of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound in Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Background The reproducibility of transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound measurements in Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) and TCD's ability to predict neurological progression is unknown. Methods In 14 individuals with SWS, TCD measured mean flow velocity, pulsatility index, peak systolic velocity, and end-diastolic velocity in the middle, posterior, and anterior cerebral arteries of the affected and unaffected hemisphere. TCD was performed either once (n = 5) or twice in one day (n = 9). We assessed the reproducibility of the measurements performed twice on the same day on subjects and compared the TCD measurements to previously published age-matched controls. Clinically obtained neuroimaging was scored for extent and severity of SWS brain involvement. Patients were prospectively assigned SWS neuroscores. Results Middle cerebral artery velocity (r = 0.79, P = 0.04, n = 7), posterior cerebral artery velocity (r = 0.90, P = 0.04, n = 5), and anterior cerebral artery pulsatility index (r = 0.82, P = 0.02, n = 7) were reproducible TCD measurements comparing same-day percent side-to-side differences. In subjects with SWS, affected and unaffected mean peak systolic velocity and end-diastolic velocity in the middle, posterior, and anterior cerebral arteries were globally lower compared with age-matched control subjects. Subjects with the lowest affected middle cerebral artery velocity had the greatest worsening in the total neurological score between time 1 and 2 (r = −0.73, P = 0.04, n = 8) and the most severe magnetic resonance imaging involvement of the affected frontal lobe (r = −0.82, P = 0.007, n = 9). Conclusions TCD may be a reliable measure with potential clinical value, indicating that blood flow may be globally decreased in SWS patients with unilateral brain involvement.
Publication Date
9-1-2017
Publication Title
Pediatric Neurology
ISSN
08878994
E-ISSN
18735150
Volume
74
First Page
15
Last Page
23.e5
PubMed ID
28757309
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.04.026
Recommended Citation
Offermann, Elizabeth A.; Sreenivasan, Aditya; DeJong, M. Robert; Lin, Doris D.M.; McCulloch, Charles E.; Chung, Melissa G.; Comi, Anne M.; Ball, Karen L.; Fisher, Brian J.; Hammill, Adrienne; Juhász, Csaba; Koenig, Jim; Lawton, Michael; Lo, Warren; Marchuk, Douglas; Miles, Daniel; Moses, Marsha; and Wilfong, Angus, "Reliability and Clinical Correlation of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound in Sturge-Weber Syndrome" (2017). Neurosurgery. 1211.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurosurgery/1211