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Prognostic value of contrast staining on dual-energy CT after endovascular therapy in acute ischemic stroke: a meta-analysis

BMC Neurology volume 23, Article number: 326 (2023) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Contrast staining (CS) on dual-energy CT (DECT) is common after endovascular therapy (EVT) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). We performed a meta-analysis to investigate the prognostic significance of CS detected by DECT after EVT in AIS.

Method

MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched from inception to July 2023 for publications on the prognostic significance of CS on DECT after EVT in patients with AIS. Prognostic outcomes were hemorrhage transformation (HT) and poor functional outcome (modified Rankin Scale [mRS] Score of 3–6 at the 90-day follow-up). Data are presented as odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).

Results

Eleven studies including 1123 cases of AIS were included. Pooled results indicated a higher risk of HT in patients with CS than in those without CS (OR = 2.22; 95% CI 1.41–3.51, P = 0.001; I2 = 45.4%). No association between CS and symptomatic HT was observed (OR = 2.10; 95% CI 0.64–6.95, P = 0.223; I2 = 67.3%). Moreover, there was also higher odds of poor functional outcome in patients with CS than in those without CS (OR = 2.76; 95% CI 1.53–4.97, P = 0.001; I2 = 44.9%).

Conclusions

The presence of contrast staining on DECT after EVT is associated with a higher risk of hemorrhage transformation and poor functional outcome. However, further high-quality studies with standardized processes are required to confirm these results.

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Introduction

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality [1]. Endovascular therapy (EVT) is an effective therapeutic strategy for AIS caused by large-vessel occlusion [2, 3]. Administration of contrast material during EVT often results in hyperdense areas (HDA) on postprocedural brain non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) related to blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption [4]. Hyperdensity may be a sign of contrast staining (CS) or a combination of hemorrhage. CS usually resolves within 24–48 h [5]. However, intracranial hemorrhage is potentially associated with poor prognosis [6]. Although CS is also suggestive of ischemic injury to local vessels, anticoagulant therapy does not need to be discontinued as with hemorrhage. In the absence of intracranial hemorrhage, if anticoagulant therapy is abruptly interrupted, the previous therapeutic effect of thrombolysis may come to naught. Therefore, the identification of these hyperdense areas on CT as CS or hemorrhage as early as possible is clinically critical and significant.

It is difficult to differentiate contrast material from hemorrhage by using conventional single-energy CT scans. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been shown to accurately differentiate intracranial hemorrhage from CS with excellent accuracy and specificity [7]. Furthermore, compared with patients without HDA (No-HDA), patients with CS have a longer onset-to-reperfusion time, and more numbers of thrombectomy devices pass as breaking the BBB [8,9,10]. Thus, late hemorrhage transformation (HT) may also occur in patients without signs of bleeding on CT immediately after EVT.

Several meta-analyses have been published on associations between HDA detected by CT and the clinical outcomes of EVT in patients with AIS [11, 12]. But no meta-analysis has been published with DECT only. By including studies containing conventional computed tomography, the diagnostic accuracy for CS may be reduced. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to investigate the association between CS detected by DECT after EVT and HT, as well as poor functional outcome. We hypothesized that CS detected by DECT may be associated with HT and poor functional outcome, which could provide some assistance in balancing the risks and benefits of antithrombotic therapy strategies for patients after EVT.

Method

Literature search strategy

This systematic review has been written with reference to the screening guidelines of the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA).

This protocol was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews database (PROSPERO, registration number: CRD42022378646). Two authors (Y.F. and Z.Y.) with 11 years of radiological expertise separately searched the MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE (OvidSP), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Web of Science and Scopus databases through July 15, 2023, using the following keywords: Dual-Energy Head CT OR Dual Energy Computed Tomography, Cerebral Parenchymal Hemorrhages OR Intracranial Hemorrhage, Contrast Staining OR Iodine Contrast Extravasation OR Contrast Extravasation). The language of the studies was without any restriction. The references included in the studies were also searched to identify additional studies. Detailed search strategies are available in Supplementary Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Two reviewers (Y.F. and Z.Y.) independently selected eligible primary studies and the disagreements were resolved by consensus. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (a) in which patients who received EVT after AIS; (b) in which patients who received contrast medium during EVT; (c) in which DECT was performed after EVT; (d) in which CT and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were as reference standards following DECT; (e) in which 90-day follow-up records were available; and (f) that contained sufficient data to construct 2 × 2 contingency tables or direct odds ratio (OR) values.

Duplications, irrelevant articles, animal studies, editorials, comments, correspondence, letters, case reports, conference abstracts, reviews, and meta-analyses were excluded.

Data extraction and quality assessment

Two review authors (Y.F. and Z.Y.) independently extracted the following data from each included study: first author’s name, publication year, country, study design, number of cases, mean age, proportion of males, baseline NIHSS score, proportion of anterior circulation, proportion of successful recanalization, DECT protocols and time interval, reference standards and time interval, DECT numerical information (cases of CS, No-HDA, hemorrhage; as well as cases of HT and symptomatic HT (sHT) according to the criteria of ECASS or the Heidelberg bleeding classification [13, 14]), and cases of patients with poor outcome, which was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 3–6 at the 90-day follow-up. Disagreements were resolved through consensus.

Two authors (Y.F. and Z.Y.) separately assessed the quality of each eligible study according to Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for nonrandomized studies [15]. Case-control studies and cohort studies were assessed based on 3 aspects: patient selection, study comparability, and exposure or outcome. Disagreements were resolved by the two authors through discussions or by consulting a third author (H.X.Y).

Statistical analysis

Stata V.15 software (StataCorp LP, College Station, Texas) was used for the combined statistical analysis. Data synthesis of the association between CS and HT/sHT, as well as poor outcome, are presented as OR and 95% CI. A random effects model was used for the meta-analysis. Statistical significance was set at P ≤ 0.05. Heterogeneity was assessed by using Cochrane Q statistics and was quantified via I2 with values 25–50%, 50–75%, and > 75% consistent with low, moderate, and high heterogeneity, respectively. Subgroup analysis was conducted based on the location of the lesion (anterior or posterior stroke) and DECT time interval (within 1 h or longer). Egger’s test was performed to detect publication bias.

Results

Study selection

The flow diagram of the search strategy is shown in Fig. 1. A total of 668 articles were identified using this search strategy. After screening titles and abstracts, 643 items were excluded based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We read the full texts of the remaining 25 potentially eligible studies and excluded 14. Six studies had no available original data that could be extracted, while five studies had no control groups. One study evaluated patients who underwent intravenous thrombolysis after AIS. One study had no follow-up images as reference standards and one study was duplicate publication. Finally, a total of 11 studies were included in the final analysis [8,9,10, 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23].

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Flow diagram of the search strategy

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Characteristics of the Studies

The characteristics of the included studies are shown in Table 1 and online Supplementary Tables 3–6. In total, 5 case-control studies and 6 cohort studies, including 1184 patients with AIS treated with EVT, in which 1123 patients underwent the DECT and follow-up CT and/or MRI, were included in the meta-analysis. The selected studies were conducted between 2014 and 2022 in 6 countries. Eventually, 46.1% of the patients (546/1184) were diagnosed with CS only. Of the 11 studies included, 10 studies outlined the correlation between CS and HT [8,9,10, 16,17,18,19, 21,22,23], along with four studies on sHT [8, 16, 19, 20], while four studies reported the relationship between CS and poor functional outcome [8, 10, 16, 20]. One of the studies [16] evaluated the anterior circulation stroke and the posterior circulation stroke separately, so we extracted the data as if it were two separate studies. The quality of the included studies, according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale, is shown in Table 1 and online Supplementary Table 2.

Table 1 Characteristics of the studies included
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Relationships between CS after EVT and HT, sHT

Compared with Non-CS patients, CS significantly increased the risk of HT (OR = 2.22; 95% CI 1.41–3.51; P = 0.001), with moderate heterogeneity (P = 0.057, I2 = 45.4%) [8, 10, 16,17,18,19, 21,22,23]. The association between CS and HT was still significant in the subgroup analysis, including studies that had underwent the index test time interval within 1 h (OR = 1.86; 95% CI: 1.07–3.23; P = 0.028; test of heterogeneity: P = 0.146, I2 = 37.0%) [10, 17,18,19, 21,22,23] and studies with anterior circulation stroke (OR = 2.40; 95% CI: 1.66–3.48; P < 0.001; test of heterogeneity: P = 0.372, I2 = 6.1%) [8, 15, 17, 18, 20] (Fig. 2). However, no association was found between CS and sHT (OR = 2.10; 95% CI 0.64–6.95; P = 0.223), with significant heterogeneity (P = 0.016, I2 = 67.3%) [8, 16, 19, 20]. Moreover, no association was observed between CS and sHT in the anterior circulation stroke subgroup (OR = 1.22; 95% CI: 0.48–3.09; P = 0.679; test of heterogeneity: P = 0.134, I2 = 46.2%) [8, 16, 19, 20] (Fig. 3).

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The forest plot of the relationships between CS and HT compared with Non-CS, including anterior circulation stroke subgroup analysis

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The forest plot of the relationships between CS and sHT compared with Non-CS, including anterior circulation stroke subgroup analysis

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Patients with CS had a higher incidence of HT at follow-up (OR = 6.56; 95% CI: 3.39–12.69; P < 0.001; test of heterogeneity: P = 0.307, I2 = 15.7%) than No-HDA patients [9, 10, 17,18,19, 21,22,23].

The Egger’s test showed that the outcomes of HT and sHT did not show any publication bias (see online Supplementary Tables 3–5).

Relationships between CS after EVT and poor functional outcome

A meta-analysis of four eligible studies [8, 10, 16, 20] including 554 patients illustrated that patients with CS had a higher rate of poor functional outcome at 90-day follow-up than those without CS (OR = 2.76; 95% CI 1.53–4.97; P = 0.001), without heterogeneity (P = 0.123, I2 = 44.9%). The association between CS and poor outcome was still significant in the subgroup analysis, including studies on anterior circulation stroke (OR = 3.55; 95% CI: 1.72–7.32; P = 0.001; test of heterogeneity: P = 0.131, I2 = 50.8%) [8, 16, 20]. (Fig. 4)

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The forest plot of the relationships between CS and poor functional outcome compared with Non-CS, including anterior circulation stroke subgroup analysis

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Using the Egger’s test, no publication bias could be attributed to the poor functional outcome at the 90-day follow-up (see online Supplementary Table 6).

Discussion

This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the prognostic significance of contrast staining detected by DECT after EVT. We identified that CS significantly increased the risk of HT and poor functional outcome at the 90-day follow-up in patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, no association was found between CS and sHT.

The recent advent of DECT has allowed for differentiation between contrast staining and hemorrhage following thrombectomy. Our study revealed that the presence of CS on DECT post-thrombectomy is probably associated with the development of HT, which supports the concept that both CS and HT are successive stages of BBB disruption [24]. Ahn et al. [25] showed that delayed petechial hemorrhage was predicted by anticoagulant use and maximum contrast density. It is recommended that the patients with evident CS following thrombectomy warrant close monitoring and necessary interventions such as avoiding or reversing anticoagulation [25].

Extravascular contrast material demonstrates washout within 24–48 h in a hyperdense area [5]. Thus, DECT should be performed as early as possible to detect CS post-EVT, and follow-up examinations are better after 24 h. If follow-up imaging is performed within 24 h after EVT, confusion will occur between CS and HT. In our study, the time interval between EVT and DECT differed from immediately [10, 17,18,19,20,21,22,23] to within 24 h [8, 9, 16] in different studies. Thus, we conducted a subgroup analysis of studies with time intervals within 1 h to reduce heterogeneity.

Various other possible covariates, including image analysis, location of the lesion, reference standard judgment, and the time of follow-up imaging, had a significant influence on the heterogeneity [7, 12]. Previous studies have identified that the posterior circulation has greater ischemic tolerance, and BBB disruption may be delayed after stroke onset compared with the anterior circulation [26, 27]. At the same time, the vasoreactivity and autoregulation of the anterior and posterior circulation are also different. In our study, the association between CS and HT was still significant in the subgroup analysis with studies on anterior circulation stroke without heterogeneity.

However, no association was found between CS and sHT, particularly in the anterior circulation stroke subgroup. A previous study indicated that a hyperdense area on CT after thrombectomy is significantly associated with a high risk of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage [12]. The opposite conclusion may be mainly attributed to the fact that high-density lesions after EVT also contain intracranial hemorrhage, which is considered to be a strong predictor of later sHT development [20].

We came up with a clinically significant result that CS after EVT was likely related to poor functional outcome. However, it was contrary to previous An’s [16] study. It may caused by the small sample size, various biases and random errors of the individual study. In addition, we specifically pooled patients with only anterior circulation stroke and found that CS presentation was associated with a 3.55-fold increase in the odds of a poor outcome. However, the exact mechanism of CS for poor outcome remains unclear. The assumptions for the mechanism are as follows. First, the contrast medium may cause neurotoxic effects via the inherent chemotoxicity [28], and allergic reactions as the contrast medium remains in the brain. Similarly, other studies have indicated that the use of contrast media is related to the deterioration of neurological function and conditions, such as posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy [29] and iodinated contrast encephalopathy [30]. Second, the risk of HT was increased in patients with CS on DECT, as mentioned above, and was associated with high mortality rates and significantly poor prognosis [31, 32]. A delayed reperfusion time and hyperperfusion after EVT may cause greater injury to the vasculature and BBB, further leading to evident CS [9]. Furthermore, the numbers of device passes per procedure and inappropriate operations during EVT may promote BBB disruption [9].

Our meta-analysis has several limitations. First, most of the included studies were retrospective and case-control, and patient selection could have introduced some bias. Second, the baseline NIHSS score, location of occlusion, proportion of successful recanalization, time interval of index test, time interval of reference standard and the DECT protocols were not the same among the included studies, which may have caused heterogeneity. However, we reduced this influence by performing a series of subgroup analysis. Third, although CS could predict HT in the subgroup analysis of studies that had an index test time interval within 1 h, we need to be aware that the lower limit of the confidence interval for OR was 1.07, but may fluctuate to the left or right due to a new research, and might further change our results.

Conclusion

Our results indicate that the presence of contrast staining on DECT after endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is probably associated with a high risk of hemorrhage transformation and poor functional outcome. However, our assessment of the evidence has several limitations. Further high-quality studies with standardized processes are required to validate our findings.

Data Availability

All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].

Abbreviations

CS:

contrast staining

DECT:

dual-energy CT

EVT:

endovascular therapy

AIS:

acute ischemic stroke

HT:

hemorrhage transformation

mRS:

modified Rankin Scale

OR:

odds ratio

CI:

confidence interval

HDA:

hyperdense area

NCCT:

non-contrast computed tomography

BBB:

blood-brain barrier

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Yang, F., Zeng, Y., Zhu, F. et al. Prognostic value of contrast staining on dual-energy CT after endovascular therapy in acute ischemic stroke: a meta-analysis. BMC Neurol 23, 326 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-023-03370-9

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