Shuang Li, Xuan Tian, Bonaventure Ip, Xueyan Feng, Hing Lung Ip, Jill Abrigo, Linfang Lan, Haipeng Liu, Lina Zheng, Yuying Liu, Yu Liu, Karen Ky Ma, Florence Sy Fan, Sze Ho Ma, Hui Fang, Yuming Xu, Alexander Y Lau, Howan Leung, Yannie Oy Soo, Vincent Ct Mok, Ka Sing Wong, Xinyi Leng, Thomas W Leung
There may be different mechanisms underlying internal (IBZ) and cortical (CBZ) borderzone infarcts in intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis. In 84 patients with symptomatic, 50-99% atherosclerotic stenosis of M1 middle cerebral artery (MCA-M1) with acute borderzone infarcts in diffusion-weighted imaging, we classified the infarct patterns as isolated IBZ (n = 37), isolated CBZ (n = 31), and IBZ+CBZ (n = 16) infarcts. CT angiography-based computational fluid dynamics models were constructed to quantify translesional, post-stenotic to pre-stenotic pressure ratio (PR) in the MCA-M1 lesion...
October 28, 2023: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism