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. 2010 Jan 20;30(6):1214–1225. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.3

Table 4. Role of acute DWI lesion cut point (<>25 mL) in predicting excellent and poor outcome (patients without ICA occlusion).

  Univariate Multivariate
Variable OR (95% CI) P value OR (95% CI) P value
Excellent outcome—placebo group (n=35)
 DWI <25 mL 2.7 (0.5–15.3) 0.270    
         
Excellent outcome—tPA (n=43)
 DWI <25 mL 17.0 (3.1–92.4) 0.001 15.8 (2.03–99.8) 0.008
 Infarct growth 0.99 (0.97–1.00) 0.132    
 Occlusion site 0.99 (0.81–1.19) 0.886    
 Tmax +2 secs vol 1.0 (0.99–1.00) 0.256    
 Tmax +12 secs vol 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.079 0.99 (0.98–1.02) 0.983
 Reperfusion 1.0 (0.21–4.56) 1.0    
         
Poor outcome—placebo group (n=35)
 DWI >25 mL 1.3 (0.2–9.3) 0.772    
         
Poor outcome—tPA (n=43)
 DWI >25 mL 9.9 (1.8–54.4) 0.008 1.78 (0.19–16.5) 0.313
Infarct growth 1.02 (1.01–1.04) 0.017 1.03 (1.00–1.07) 0.040
 Occlusion site 0.96 (0.74–1.24) 0.742    
 Tmax +2 secs vol 1.0 (0.99–1.00) 0.150    
 Tmax +12 secs vol 1.02 (1.00–1.03) 0.055 1.02 (0.99–1.05) 0.068
 Reperfusion 0.26 (0.04–1.90) 0.184    
         
tPA patients (n=43)
Variable DWI <25 mL DWI >25 mL P value  
 Infarct growth 0 (0–12.1) 7.9 (0–93.1) 0.118  
 Occl site (M1) 7/22 (32%) 6/15 (40%) 0.609  
 Occl site (M2) 4/22 (18%) 2/15 (13%) 1.0  
 Occl site (nil) 11/22 (50%) 7/15 (47%) 0.842  
 Tmax +2 secs vol 122 (41–168) 156 (99–220) 0.178  
 Tmax +12 secs vol 8 (0–16) 49 (17–121) 0.002  
 Reperfusion 13/18 (72%) 8/13 (62%) 0.701  

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; Occl, occlusion, lesion volumes are median and inter-quartile range in brackets.