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Predictors of three months mortality after endovascular mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery volume 58, Article number: 96 (2022) Cite this article

Abstract

Objective

This study aims to determine predictive factors of mortality within 3 months after mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).

Methods

This prospective cohort study was carried out at Assiut University stroke center in collaboration with Ain Shams University Egypt. Forty-four patients with anterior circulation AIS underwent MT between the first of January 2020 to the end of December 2020. They were evaluated for detection of death rates and identification of risks of 3-month mortality after MT.

Results

This study comprised 44 patients (52.3% male) with a mean age of 64.3 years. The mean time from onset to femoral arterial puncture was 304.1 min. The mean Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score were 9.3 and 19.2, respectively. The 3-month mortality rate was 13.6%. Univariate analyses found that higher baseline NIHSS score (mean 22.2 vs. 18.7, p = 0.021), absence of good collateral (16.7% vs. 68.4%, p = 0.02), longer duration of procedure ≥ 60 min (66.7% vs. 23.7%, p = 0.032), lower rates of successful recanalization (83.3% vs. 28.9%, p = 0.01) and developing symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (33.3% vs. 5.3%, p = 0.026) were associated with 3-month mortality. Multivariate analyses found that low rates of successful recanalization (OR 0.081; 95% CI 0.009–0.780, p = 0.030) remained significant independent predictive factor of 3-month mortality.

Conclusion

Successful recanalization was an independent predictor of 3-month mortality after MT.

Introduction

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is one of the most common causes of disability and death in developing countries [1]. In Egypt, the prevalence of ischemic stroke was 797 of 100,000 [2].

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have confirmed the efficacy of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients with AIS caused by large vessel occlusions within 6 h from symptom onset [3,4,5,6,7]. Recently the time extended to 24 h from symptom onset with a good mismatch between infarct core and ischemic penumbra [8, 9].

Lack of neuro-interventionists, comprehensive stroke units, stroke triage systems, and high treatment cost are the major barriers to broader accessibility of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) among developing countries [10].

Randomized controlled trials have proven a notable improvement in functional independence rates after EVT. However, these trials have not demonstrated any change in the death rate after EVT compared to medical treatment [11].

Despite a lot of research concerned with predictors of disability after MT, studies focused on predictors of mortality are limited [12,13,14,15,16]. Therefore this study aims to determine predictive factors of mortality within 3 months after MT.

Patients and methods

Patients

This prospective cohort study, registered trial (NCT03608644), was carried out at Assiut University stroke center in collaboration with Ain Shams University Egypt. Forty-four patients with anterior circulation AIS underwent MT between the first of January 2020 to the end of December 2020. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) age ≥ 18 years; (2) The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score (NIHSS) of ≥ 6; (3) cerebral infarction in the anterior circulation (internal carotid artery (ICA), middle cerebral artery (MCA) M1 segment, or both); (4) access to EVT within 6 h from onset.

The medical ethical review board of Assiut and Ain Shams University approved the study—approval number 17200215, and we obtained informed consent from the patients and/or their relatives. Patients who had a history of old stroke with a disability of more than 3 as evaluated by a Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) were excluded from the analysis. Also patients or their relatives can request to be removed from the study at any point.

Method

All included patients were subjected to demographic, clinical, and imaging data evaluation.

Complete medical and history evaluation, including the history of hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemia, smoking, and history of previous cardiovascular events (like ischemic heart disease (IHD), rheumatic heart disease (RHD), and atrial fibrillation (AF)).

Clinical assessment of body mass index (BMI), baseline mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and baseline blood glucose, in addition, clinical presentation at admission, and time from onset to femoral arterial puncture, use of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA), initial NIHSS score [17], and door to puncture times evaluated.

All patients subjected to a comprehensive evaluation by non-contrast brain computer tomography (CT) to exclude cerebral hemorrhage. The early ischemic signs were detected and scored using Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) [18]. Arterial imaging of the cerebral circulation with computed tomography angiography (CTA) was done to confirm the existence of large vessel occlusion and allow localization of the occluded vessel.

Endovascular treatment

Endovascular thrombectomy was performed under conscious sedation or general anesthesia using a femoral artery approach. An 8F guide catheter was inserted into the target carotid artery. The angiographic collateral grade was evaluated with the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology/Society of Interventional Radiology (ASITN/SIR) scale [19]. Two techniques were used, including the stent-based thrombectomy technique (n = 29) or the direct aspiration first-pass thrombectomy technique (n = 8) or both (n = 7). The intraoperative data were recorded, including the following; intraoperative average MAP, the number of attempts, duration of the procedure, type of stent retriever used, and carotid stenting if performed. Successful recanalization after MT was defined as modified Treatment in Cerebral Ischemia (mTICI) grade 2b or 3 [20].

Follow-up data

Follow-up of patients was done after MT to identify rates and risk factors of 3-month mortality. Special attention was paid to the development of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH), defined as any hemorrhagic transformation on the 1-week follow-up CT or MRI scan associated with an increase of 4 points or more in the NIHSS score or death [21].

Statistical analysis

Quantitative variables are described as mean and standard deviation, while qualitative data are expressed as numbers and percentages. We performed overall descriptive statistics for demographic, clinical, imaging, treatment, and follow-up data. Comparisons of these variables between cohorts with and without 3-month mortality were performed using Pearson Chi-square for categorical, and Student’s t-tests for continuous variables and a multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors for mortality at 3 months. Variables with a P-value < 0.05 in the univariate analysis on mortality were included in a multivariate logistic regression analysis. P-value < 0.05 value was considered significant. All statistical analyses were performed with SPSS software (version 21.0; IBM SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA).

Result

The mean age of patients was 64.3 ± 10.6 years; males were more than females (52.3% versus 47.7%). Right-sided weakness is associated with aphasia in 54.5%, and most cases (86.4%) presented with gaze palsy. Blood glucose at admission was 146.7 ± 54.7 mg/dl, and baseline MAP was 99.3 ± 10.5 mmHg. The mean time from onset to femoral arterial puncture was 304.1 ± 60.9 min, while the mean initial NIHSS score was 19.2 ± 3.5, which is significantly higher among deceased cases (22.2 ± 3.8) than among those who are alive (18.7 ± 3.2). HTN was the most commonly encountered (54.5%) risk factor, followed by DM (45.5%) and smoking (36.4%). As regards radiological findings, the mean ASPECT score was 9.3 ± 1.1. MCA M1 with ICA (tandem lesion) (36.4%) was encountered with a higher proportion among deceased cases (66.7%) than alive patients (31.7) (Table 1).

Table 1 Demographic, imaging, and clinical data of study patients
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Only 25% of patients receive IV rtPA before MT. The mean time from the door to the groin was 38 ± 11.4 min. Good collaterals as detected by (ASITN/SIR) was recorded with a significantly higher proportion among living patients (68.4%) than deceased patients (16.7%), and the duration of the procedure was significantly longer than 60 min in deceased cases (66.7%) than alive patients (23.7%).

Stent retriever used alone in 2/3 (66%) of the samples, while aspiration technique used alone only in 18.2%. The carotid stent was performed in 31.8% of our patients. During the procedure, the mean of MAP was 96.3 ± 12.3 mmHg, and the mean number of attempts was 4 ± 2.5. Successful recanalization rate (grade 2b and 3) as evaluated by mTICI was significantly higher among alive cases (71%) than deceased cases (16.7%). The reverse was true regarding sICH, which was recorded with a significantly higher rate among deceased cases (33.3%) than alive (5.3%) (Table 2).

Table 2 Procedural characteristics, and follow-up data of study patients
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The multivariate analysis showed that low rates of successful recanalization (OR 0.081; 95% CI 0.009–0.780, p = 0.030) remained a significant independent predictive factor of the 3-month mortality (Table 3).

Table 3 Multivariable logistic regression analysis for predictors of 3-month mortality
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Discussion

The present study was designed to analyze a variety of predictive factors associated with 3-month mortality after MT among patients with AIS. In our study, the rate of 3-month mortality was 13.6%, which was relatively similar to pooled analysis of individual patient data by the HERMES (the Highly Effective Reperfusion Evaluated in Multiple Endovascular Stroke Trials) collaboration [11], which reported a 3-month mortality rate of 15.3%. In our study, successful recanalization (defined as mTICI ≥ 2b) occurred in 63.6%. The important finding from multivariable modeling in our study showed that low rates of successful recanalization remained a significant independent predictor of 3-month mortality after MT. Our result is compatible with a previous study by Yoon et al. 2017 [12], which demonstrated that revascularization status is one of the predictors of 3-month mortality. Furthermore, the North American Solitaire Acute Stroke (NASA) registry reported that failure of recanalization and the presence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage resulted in increased mortality [13].

More recent studies have shown that achieving complete restoration of blood flow to an mTICI score of 3 appeared to reduce infarct growth and improve post-thrombectomy functional independence than revascularization only to 2B [22]. Additionally, successful reperfusion may inhibit ischemic lesion extension, avoiding malignant infarction evolution responsible for mortality [23]. Consequently, the neuro-interventionalist should perform every attempt to achieve successful recanalization to decrease mortality.

Higher baseline NIHSS score, poor collateral status, long duration of the procedure and developing sICH are important findings in univariate analysis that were significantly associated with 3-month mortality after MT.

Initial NIHSS has predictive mortality after acute ischemic stroke [24, 25]. Our study is consistent with a recent study by Chen et al., who reported that high NIHSS on admission is associated with mortality at 30 days after MT [15]. However, a high NIHSS at presentation should not exclude patients from thrombectomy eligibility as management with MT gave a better outcome than medical treatment [3, 7, 26].

Previous research confirmed the collateral flow connection with perfusion parameters [27, 28] and 3-month mortality [29]. Also, our results are in concordance with the recent meta-analysis by QIAN et al. [30], which found that good pretreatment collaterals were associated with functional independence, successful reperfusion, and decreased rate of sICH and mortality after MT. Good collaterals can support ischemic penumbra before reperfusion and decrease infarction growth [31].

Procedure time has an impact on patient outcomes after MT. A longer duration of the procedure is associated with an increase in the risk of complications and poor outcomes [32, 33]. Spiotta et al. [32] found that patients with a procedure time of more than one hour had a higher likelihood of being dead or in a persistent vegetative state. Also, time exceeding 60 min should trigger a careful assessment of the futility and risks of continuing the procedure. Patients with a longer duration of procedure usually have occlusion, which is difficult to recanalize. Also, increasing procedure time will further tax compensatory collaterals supplying an ischemic penumbra and lead to irreversible injury. In other words, a procedure with a long duration is associated with diminishing return of successful recanalization due to ischemia progression [32].

Hemorrhagic transformation is a disastrous complication of MT, particularly when associated with mass effect or neurological deterioration [34]. Our results were consistent with other study findings supporting that parenchymal ICH was associated with higher mortality rates [8, 12]. ICH can be produced from reperfusion injury after prolonged ischemia or vessel wall perforation as a technical complication of the endovascular procedure [35]. sICH is a great prognosticator of post-thrombectomy mortality that is likely modifiable by decreasing the time of endovascular thrombectomy or improving intraprocedural techniques to prevent lethal operator-induced cerebral hemorrhage [36, 37].

This study's major limitation is the small sample size because this study was done in two centers only in Egypt, where MT is still developing. With large sample size, more factors verified by univariate analysis could accept more strength as predictors of 3-month mortality and thus improve case selection of EVT. Despite this limitation, the study's strengths included the in-depth analysis of most predictor factors, which may be able to predict mortality.

Conclusion

In conclusion, low rates of successful recanalization (mTICI ≥ 2b or 3) remained a significant independent predictor of 3-month mortality after MT. Also, higher baseline NIHSS score, poor collateral status, long duration of the procedure, and developing sICH have a higher risk of 3-month mortality after MT. Further research is required to determine more factors associated with mortality after MT and modify it if possible.

Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analyzed during this study are available from corresponded on request.

Abbreviations

AIS:

Acute ischemic stroke

RCTs:

Randomized controlled trials

MT:

Mechanical thrombectomy

EVT:

Endovascular thrombectomy

NIHSS:

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score

ICA:

Internal carotid artery

MCA:

Middle cerebral artery

mRS:

Modified Rankin Scale

HTN:

Hypertension

DM:

Diabetes mellitus

IHD:

Ischemic heart disease

RHD:

Rheumatic heart disease

AF:

Atrial fibrillation

BMI:

Body mass index

MAP:

Mean arterial blood pressure

rtPA:

Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator

CT:

Computer tomography

ASPECT:

Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score Program Early Computed Tomography Score

CTA:

Computed tomography angiography

ASITN/SIR:

American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology/Society of Interventional Radiology

mTICI:

Modified Treatment in Cerebral Ischemia

sICH:

Symptomatic intercerebral hemorrhage

HERMES:

The Highly Effective Reperfusion Evaluated in Multiple Endovascular Stroke Trials

NASA:

The North American Solitaire Acute Stroke

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I am grateful to express my sincere thanks to the neurology department of Ain shams and Assiut university hospitals and all staff working there. Also, thanks to patients and their families for accepting to share in this study.

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GS: recruited participants, analysis, and interpreted data, and contributed in writing the manuscript. AH: wrote the manuscript and analysis of data. MA and WF: recruited participants, helped in data entry, analyzed, and generated result sheets and revised data interpretation and manuscript. AE: recruited patients and made endovascular thrombectomy. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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Farghaly, W.M., Ahmed, M.A., El-Bassiouny, A. et al. Predictors of three months mortality after endovascular mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke. Egypt J Neurol Psychiatry Neurosurg 58, 96 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41983-022-00533-2

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