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The relationship between symptomatic status and aneurysm wall enhancement characteristics of single unruptured
Zi Chen1, Wei Zhang2, Fang-Li Li1
1Department of Radiology, Brain Hospital of Hunan Province, the School of Clinical Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, No.427, Section 3, Furong Middle Road, Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Objective:
We aimed to analyze the aneurysm wall enhancement (AWE) characteristics of a single unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) and observe the relationship between the symptoms of a single UIA and the aneurysm wall.
Methods:
In our hospital, 85 patients diagnosed with a single UIA using computed tomography angiography (CTA) were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into symptomatic and asymptomatic groups, including 46 asymptomatic and 39 symptomatic aneurysms. High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the vascular wall (HR-MR-VWI) was utilized to ascertain the presence, degree, and extent of AWE and thick-wall enhancement. In addition to AWE characteristics, morphological parameters of aneurysms, such as maximal size, shape, height, neck width, aspect ratio (AR), and size ratio (SR), were scanned using CTA. The differences in the parameters of a single UIA between the two groups were compared. An investigation explored the correlation between the symptom status of a single UIA and AWE.
Results:
We observed a correlation between symptom status and maximal size, height, and neck width for a single UIA, the presence or absence of AWE, and the levels and boundaries of AWE and thick-wall reinforcement. This study found that the AWE range was independently correlated with symptom status in the multivariate regression analysis.
Conclusion:
A larger AWE range was an independent risk factor for the onset of symptoms in a single UIA.
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