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Association Between Aneurysmal Hemodynamics and Rupture Risk of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Journal

FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.818335

Keywords

hemodynamics; rupture risk; PHASES score; unruptured intracranial aneurysm; wall shear stress

Funding

  1. National Key Research Development Program [2016YFC1300804, 2016YFC1300800]
  2. Science and Technology Project Foundation of Guangdong province [2016A020215098]
  3. Key Project of Clinical Research of Southern Medical University [LC2016ZD024]
  4. Guangdong Provincial Clinical Medical Centre for Neurosurgery [2013B020400005]

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This study compared the hemodynamic features of aneurysms in patients with different rupture risk. The results showed that low wall shear stress was significantly associated with higher risk of intracranial aneurysm rupture as determined by the PHASES score.
BackgroundAssessing rupture risk in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) remains challenging. Hemodynamics plays an important role in the natural history of intracranial aneurysms. This study aimed to compare aneurysmal hemodynamic features between patients with different rupture risk as determined by PHASES score. MethodsWe retrospectively examined 238 patients who harbored a solitary saccular UIA. Patients were stratified by rupture risk into low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups according to PHASES score. Flow simulations were performed to compare differences in hemodynamics among the groups. ResultsAneurysmal time-averaged wall shear stress (WSSa) and normalized WSS (WSSn) decreased progressively as PHASES score increased. WSSa and WSSn significantly differed among the low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups (p < 0.001). WSSa was significantly lower in the high-risk group than the low-risk group (p < 0.001) and the intermediate-risk group (p = 0.004). WSSn was also significantly lower in the high-risk group than the low-risk group (p < 0.001) and the intermediate-risk group (p = 0.001). ConclusionsLow WSS was significantly associated with higher risk of intracranial aneurysm rupture as determined by PHASES score, indicating that hemodynamics may play an important role in aneurysmal rupture. In the future, a multidimensional rupture risk prediction model that includes hemodynamic parameters should be investigated.

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