Outcome in 53 patients with spinal cord cavernomas

Labauge, Pierre; Bouly, S.; Parker, Fabrice; Gallas, Sophie; Emery, Evelyne; Loiseau, Hugues; Lejeune, J.-P.; Lonjon, M.; Proust, F.; Boetto, S.; Coulbois, S; Auque, J.; Boulliat, J

doi:10.1016/j.surneu.2007.06.039

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“…Eligibility criteria were met by 39 articles, totaling 608 patients 1,5,6,8,9,11,12,14,15,17,[20][21][22][23]27,28,30,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]45,46,49,50,53,54,58,59,[62][63][64]67,73 (Fig. 1), in addition to our institutional series of 24 patients with ISCCMs (total of 40 series and 632 patients).…”

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“…Included articles described use of various methods to report outcomes, most commonly a simple scale of better, same, or worse. Several articles reported use of a standardized scoring tool for assessing neurological function, including the McCormick, 1,12,15,17,20,30,35,37,39,40 Frankel, 5,6,8,42,53,59,73 American Spinal Injury Association impairment, 50 and Aminoff-Logue disability 36 scales. For each included study, we defined improved, unchanged, or worsened neurological function the same as that reported by the authors of eligible articles.…”

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“…1,7,15 By contrast, patient age and sex have shown no correlation with outcomes. 7,35,73 Spinal cord cavernous malformations are managed with either surgical resection or observation. In our meta-analysis, most (90%) patients underwent resection and only 10% underwent conservative management, reflecting the general practice among neurosurgeons of resecting these lesions when patients are symptomatic.…”

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Surgical outcomes and natural history of intramedullary spinal cord cavernous malformations: a single-center series and meta-analysis of individual patient data

Badhiwala¹,

Farrokhyar

Alhazzani

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Object Information pertaining to the natural history of intramedullary spinal cord cavernous malformations (ISCCMs) and patient outcomes after surgery is scarce. To evaluate factors associated with favorable outcomes for patients with surgically and conservatively managed ISCCMs, the authors performed a systematic review and metaanalysis of the literature. In addition, they included their single-center series of ISCCMs. Methods The authors searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Google Scholar, and The Cochrane Library for studies published through June 2013 that reported cases of ISCCMs. Data from all eligible studies were used to examine the epidemiology, clinical features, and neurological outcomes of patients with surgically managed and conservatively treated ISCCMs. To evaluate several variables as predictors of favorable neurological outcomes, the authors conducted a meta-analysis of individual patient data and performed univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Variables included patient age, patient sex, lesion spinal level, lesion size, cerebral cavernomas, family history of cavernous malformations, clinical course, presenting symptoms, treatment strategy (operative or conservative), symptom duration, surgical approach, spinal location, and extent of resection. In addition, they performed a meta-analysis to determine a pooled estimate of the annual hemorrhage rate of ISCCMs. Results Eligibility criteria were met by 40 studies, totaling 632 patients, including the authors' institutional series of 24 patients. Mean patient age was 39.1 years (range 2–80 years), and the male-to-female ratio was 1.1:1. Spinal levels of cavernomas were cervical (38%), cervicothoracic (2.4%), thoracic (55.2%), thoracolumbar (0.6%), lumbar (2.1%), and conus medullaris (1.7%). Average cavernoma size was 9.2 mm. Associated cerebral cavernomas occurred in 16.5% of patients, and a family history of cavernous malformation was found for 11.9% of evaluated patients. Clinical course was acute with stepwise progression for 45.4% of patients and slowly progressive for 54.6%. Symptoms were motor (60.5%), sensory (57.8%), pain (33.8%), bladder and/or bowel (23.6%), respiratory distress (0.5%), or absent (asymptomatic; 0.9%). The calculated pooled annual rate of hemorrhage was 2.1% (95% CI 1.3%–3.3%). Most (89.9%) patients underwent resection, and 10.1% underwent conservative management (observation). Outcomes were better for those who underwent resection than for those who underwent conservative management (OR 2.79, 95% CI 1.46–5.33, p = 0.002). A positive correlation with improved neurological outcomes was found for resection within 3 months of symptom onset (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.31–3.41, p = 0.002), hemilaminectomy approach (OR 3.20, 95% CI 1.16–8.86, p = 0.03), and gross-total resection (OR 3.61, 95% CI 1.24–10.52, p = 0.02). Better outcomes were predicted by an acute clinical course (OR 1.72, 95% CI 1.10–2.68, p = 0.02) and motor symptoms (OR 1.76, 95% CI 1.08–2.86, p = 0.02); poor neurological recovery was predicted by sensory symptoms (OR 0.58, 95% CI 0.35–0.98, p = 0.04). Rates of neurological improvement after resection were no higher for patients with superficial ISCCMs than for those with deep-seated ISCCMs (OR 1.36, 95% CI 0.71–2.60, p = 0.36). Conclusions Intramedullary spinal cord cavernous malformations tend to be clinically progressive. The authors' findings support an operative management plan for patients with a symptomatic ISCCM. Surgical goals include gross-total resection through a more minimally invasive hemilaminectomy approach within 3 months of presentation.

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Surgical outcomes and natural history of intramedullary spinal cord cavernous malformations: a single-center series and meta-analysis of individual patient data

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“…We believe that a selective schedule of the spinal cord symptoms is more convincing than a score associated to a classification (Table 3). However, we, additionally, used the Frankel scale and the McCormick classification at the time of admission, discharge and follow up to give an overview and enable comparisons to other studies (Table 1 and 3) [9,17,20].…”

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“…Loss of CCM1 was found to be an important factor for insufficient angiogenesis due to incomplete cell adhesion, which can lead to development of CMs. Simultaneous occurrence, affecting both cerebral and spinal cord is observed with varying prevalence (Laubage et al 37%, Vishteh et al 47%) [2,5,12,17,19,23,27].…”

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Symptomatic spinal cavernous malformations: indication for microsurgical treatment and outcome

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Purpose We demonstrate clinical features, therapy and outcome of 14 patients with symptomatic spinal cavernous malformations (CM). Methods We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent microsurgical treatment of symptomatic spinal CM during the last decade in our department through an analysis of our database. Results We analyzed the data of 14 patients (11 females, 3 males) with symptomatic spinal CM in a range of 16-77 years (mean age 47.8 years). Seven patients (50%) experienced significant improvement of their symptoms rapidly after surgery. The remaining seven patients presented new non pre-existing complaints, which improved gradually with a favourable outcome at the last follow-up examination in six cases. Conclusion Microsurgical treatment under perioperative electrophysiological monitoring is justified to prevent severe neurofunctional deterioration in symptomatic spinal CM. Although some of the patients deteriorate after surgery, the symptoms are rapidly declining with a favourable outcome in majority of them.

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