Table 5.
Application of criteria to literature case reports
| Major clinical criteria | Minor clinical criteria | Major neuroradiological criteria | Minor neuroradiological criteria | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headache | Cognitive impairment | Stroke/TIA | Focal neurological deficit | Seizure (s) | Impaired level of consciousness | Psychiatric alterations | Multiple MRI lesions | Parenchymal or meningeal contrast enhancement | MRA abnormalities | Vessel wall contrast enhancement on black blood MRI | Single MRI lesion | Intraparenchymal or subarachnoid hemorrhage | Clinical + neuroradiological criteria* | Combination (s) | |
| Al Share, 2017 [29] | x | x | C:1 > + N:1 > | A | |||||||||||
| Kumar, 2017 [30] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:1 >and 1 < | A | ||||||||||
| Takahashi, 2017 [31] | x | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Lee, 2017 [32] | x | x | x | x | C: 2 > + N:1 > and 1 < | A & B | |||||||||
| Arif, 2017 [33] | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:1 > | A | ||||||||||
| Mizuno, 2016 [34] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Sun, 2016 [35] | x | x | x | x | C: 2 > and 1 < + N:1 < | B | |||||||||
| Benson, 2016 [36] | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:1 > | A | ||||||||||
| Pillai, 2016 [37] | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:1 > | A | ||||||||||
| Fang, 2015 [38] | x | x | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:2 > and 1 < | A & B | ||||||||
| Kim, 2015 [39] | x | X | x | x | C:2 < + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Bajaj, 2015 [40] | x | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Kim SI, 2015 [41] | x | x | x | C:1 < + N:1 > and 1 < | A | ||||||||||
| Killeen, 2015 [42] | x | x | x | x | x | C:3 > + N:1 > and 1 < | A & B | ||||||||
| Gan, 2015 [43] | x | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:1 > and 1 < | A & B | |||||||||
| Huang, 2015 [44] | x | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Okunomiya, 2014 [45] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Safouris, 2014 [46] | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:1 > | A | ||||||||||
| Michiels, 2014 [47] | x | x | x | x | x | C:2 > and 1 < + N:1 > and 1 < | A & B | ||||||||
| Gaillard, 2014 [48] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Rao, 2014 [49] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Noh, 2014 [50] | x | x | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:3 > | A | ||||||||
| Safouris, 2013 [46] | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:1 > | A | ||||||||||
| Orr, 2013 [51] | x | x | x | x | C:2 > + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Lyra, 2013 [52] | x | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > and 1 < | A | |||||||||
| Rosenberg, 2013 [53] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N: 2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Okeda, 2012 [54] | x | x | x | C:1 < + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Yu, 2011 [55] | x | x | x | x | C:2 > and 1 < + N:1 > | A | |||||||||
| Ghavanini, 2011 [56] | x | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:1 > and 1 < | A & B | |||||||||
| Ho, 2011 [57] | x | x | x | x | C:1 > and 1 < + N:2 > | A | |||||||||
| Tanei, 2011 [58] | x | x | x | C:1 > + N:2 > | A | ||||||||||
| Pires, 2011 [59] | x | x | C:1 > + N:1 > | A | |||||||||||
*C number of major (>) or minor (<) clinical criteria present; N = number of major (>) or minor (<) neuroradiological criteria present
Combination ‘A’: One clinical (major or minor) + one major neuroradiological feature
Combination ‘B’: Two clinical (at least one major) + one minor neuroradiological feature