The extent of perfusion deficit does not relate to the visibility of acute ischemic lesions on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging.

Abstract

Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging (FLAIR) has been suggested as a surrogate marker of lesion age in acute ischemic stroke. In a subgroup analysis, we evaluated whether the extent of perfusion deficit influences FLAIR lesion visibility and thus plays a role as a confounding variable in the interpretation of FLAIR images.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
ISSN1051-2284
Publication statusPublished - 2013
pubmed 22818219