Table 4.
Correlation between neurological outcome and clinical variables and between postoperative cerebral hemodynamic changes and clinical variables*.
| 6-Months GOS | CBFV increase decompressed side | CBFV increase opposite side | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-value | Correlation | P-value | Correlation | P-value | Correlation | |
| Age | 0.319 | −0.242 | 0.29 | −0.256 | 0.556 | −0.154 |
| Sex | 0.574 | 0.138 | 0.801 | −0.062 | 0.802 | −0.066 |
| Interval Ad—DC | 0.129 | 0.598 | 0.028 | −0.503 | 0.03 | −0.527 |
| Preoperative GCS | 0.113 | 0.375 | 0.301 | 0.251 | 0.472 | 0.187 |
| Midline shift | 0.044 | −0.466 | 0.651 | −0.111 | 0.27 | 0.284 |
| CBFV increase decompressed side | 0.113 | 0.645 | ||||
| CBFV increase opposite side | 0.158 | 0.545 | ||||
*
Interval Ad—DC, interval between hospital admission and decompressive craniectomy; GCS, Glasgow coma scale; CBFV, cerebral blood flow velocity; GOS, Glasgow outcome scale.