Symptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhage after Ischemic Stroke Treated with Bridging Revascularization Therapy. 2023

Simon Amaral, and Gauthier Duloquin, and Yannick Béjot
Neurology Department, Dijon University Hospital, 21000 Dijon, France.

(1) Background: bridging revascularization therapy is now the standard of care in patients with ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion. This study aimed to determine the frequency of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) related to this treatment, and to assess contributing factors and patients' outcomes. (2) Methods: consecutive ischemic stroke patients treated with bridging therapy were prospectively enrolled. sICH (intracranial hemorrhage with an increase in NIHSS score of ≥4 points) was assessed on imaging at 24 h. The functional status of patients was measured at 6 months using the mRS score; (3) Results: 176 patients were included (mean age 68.7 ± 1.2 years, 52.3% women), among whom 15 (8.5%) had sICH. Patients with sICH had more frequent alcohol abuse (30.1% versus 9.7%, p = 0.023), prestroke use of dual antiplatelet therapy (14.3% versus 1.3%, p = 0.002), higher NIHSS scores at admission (median score 20.5 versus 15, p = 0.01), greater systolic blood pressure upon admission, more frequent vascular intracranial calcifications (p = 0.004), leukoaraiosis (p = 0.001), and intracranial atheroma (p = 0.02), and higher neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios (p = 0.02) and neutrophil-to-platelet ratios (p = 0.04). At 6-month follow-up, 9 (60%) patients with sICH died, versus 18% of patients without sICH (p < 0.001). Only 1 (7%) patient with sICH had a good functional outcome, defined as an mRS score of 0 to 2, versus 51% of patients without sICH. (4) Conclusions: one in twelve ischemic stroke patients treated with bridging therapy suffered sICH. Given the observed poor outcomes after sICH, further studies are required to better identify patients at risk to help clinicians in guiding therapeutic strategies.

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