Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) for stroke

Evidence-based neurology checklist on susceptibility weighted imaging (swi) for stroke: Susceptibility vessel sign This results from thrombi It predicts cardioembolic stroke It is associated with large infarct volumes and stroke severity Prominent hypointense vessel sign (PHVS) Cortical vessel…

Susceptibility vessel sign

  • This results from thrombi
  • It predicts cardioembolic stroke
  • It is associated with large infarct volumes and stroke severity

Prominent hypointense vessel sign (PHVS)

Cortical vessel sign (CVS)

References

  1. Kang DW, Jeong HG, Kim DY, Yang W, Lee SH. Prediction of stroke subtype and recanalization using susceptibility vessel sign on susceptibility-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Stroke 2017; 48:1554-1559. 
  2. Zhang R, Zhou Y, Liu C, et al. Overestimation of susceptibility vessel sign: a predictive marker of stroke cause. Stroke 2017; 48:1993-1996. 
  3. Yamamoto N, Satomi J, Tada Y, et al. Two-layered susceptibility vessel sign on 3-tesla T2*weighted imaging is a predictive biomarker of stroke subtype. Stroke 2015; 46:269-271. 
  4. Payabvash S, Benson JC, Taleb S, et al. Susceptible vessel sign: identification of arterial occlusion and clinical implications in acute ischaemic stroke. Clin Radiol 2017; 72:116-122.
  5. Wang Y, Shi T, Chen B, Lin G, Xu Y, Geng Y. Prominent hypointense vessel sign on susceptibility-weighted imaging is associated with clinical outcome in acute ischaemic stroke. Eur Neurol 2018; 79:231-239.
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