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Samantha M. Bouchal, Ryan M. Naylor, and David J. Daniels

OBJECTIVE

Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a complication of severe traumatic or hypoxic brain injury characterized by transient episodes of tachycardia, tachypnea, hypertension, hyperthermia, diaphoresis, and/or dystonic posturing. Posttraumatic "sympathetic storms" are associated with poor outcomes. PSH rarely occurs after brain tumor resection in pediatric patients; only 4 cases have been published since 1929. Thus, the authors sought to report their experience with postcraniotomy PSH in pediatric brain tumor patients.

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一个retrospective study of patients younger than 18 years of age who underwent craniotomy for brain tumor resection at a single center by a single surgeon over a 7-year period was performed. A clinical diagnosis of postoperative PSH was recorded. Recorded outcomes included the interval between surgery and initiation of cytotoxic therapy, need for long-term CSF diversion, length of hospital stay, and survival.

RESULTS

Of the 150 patients who were included for analysis, 4 patients were diagnosed with postoperative PSH for an overall occurrence of 2.7%. PSH patients were younger than non-PSH patients (1.8 ± 0.4 years vs 9.2 ± 5.3 years, p = 0.010) and tended to have intraventricular tumors close to the thalamus, basal ganglia, and/or brainstem. PSH patients experienced longer hospital admissions (44.3 ± 23.4 days vs 6.8 ± 9.4 days, p = 0.001), a shorter interval between surgery and initiation of cytotoxic cancer-directed therapy (14.3 ± 8.0 days vs 90.7 days ± 232.9 days, p = 0.011), and increased need for long-term CSF diversion compared with non-PSH patients (75% vs 25%, p = 0.005). At the last follow-up, 50% of PSH patients had died compared with 13% of non-PSH patients (p = 0.094).

CONCLUSIONS

PSH is a rare postoperative complication that may affect young children with periventricular tumors and is associated with poorer clinical outcomes. Increasing awareness of this condition is vital to improving patient outcomes.

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Kunal V. Vakharia, Ryan M. Naylor, Hirotaka Hasegawa, Ashley M. Nassiri, Colin L. W. Driscoll, and Michael J. Link

Petroclival meningiomas, which arise from the upper two-thirds of the clivus and are medial to the trigeminal nerve, carry significant surgical risk. Patients whose operations are tailored to maximize tumor resection while minimizing neurological morbidity have favorable outcomes. Subtotally resected tumors can be subsequently considered for radiosurgery in an attempt to limit recurrence. Here the authors report the case of a 40-year-old woman with postpartum trigeminal neuropathy secondary to a petroclival meningioma. The patient underwent an aggressive subtotal resection via a posterior petrosal approach with preservation of neurological function followed by adjuvant radiosurgery.

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Ryan M. Naylor, Anton Wohl, Aditya Raghunathan, Laurence J. Eckel, Gesina F. Keating, and David J. Daniels

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本研究的目的是描述临床presentation, imaging appearance, and differential outcomes based on tumor location in 7 patients with desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma and desmoplastic infantile gangliogliomas (DIA/DIG).

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Data of 7 patients with histopathology-proven DIA/DIGs and preoperative imaging were retrospectively reviewed, and age, sex, clinical presentation, imaging characteristics, tumor location, surgical procedure, postoperative morbidity, and overall mortality were recorded.

RESULTS

Two subgroups of patients with DIA/DIGs were found to exist based on whether their tumor was located in the cerebral hemispheres or suprasellar region. Nearly all patients presented with rapidly enlarging head circumference regardless of tumor location. However, ocular abnormalities, including nystagmus and preference for downward gaze, were specific for patients with suprasellar disease. These patients experienced significant postoperative complications and had poor long-term outcomes. In contrast, patients with hemispheric tumors underwent more extensive resection than patients with suprasellar tumors, had uneventful postoperative courses, and had no documented long-term comorbidities.

CONCLUSIONS

Postoperative course and long-term outcome for patients with DIA/DIGs were correlated to the anatomical location and radiographic appearance of their tumor at presentation, despite having histologically and molecularly indistinguishable, WHO grade I tumors.

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Lorenzo Rinaldo, Desmond A. Brown, Adip G. Bhargav, Aaron E. Rusheen, Ryan M. Naylor, Hannah E. Gilder, Dileep D. Monie, Stephanie J. Youssef, and Ian F. Parney

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The authors sought to investigate the incidence and predictors of venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) after craniotomy for tumor resection, which are not well established, and the efficacy of and risks associated with VTE chemoprophylaxis, which remains controversial.

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The authors investigated the incidence of VTEs in a consecutive series of patients presenting to the authors’ institution for resection of an intracranial lesion between 2012 and 2017. Information on patient and tumor characteristics was collected and independent predictors of VTEs were determined using stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis. Review of the literature was performed by searching MEDLINE using the keywords “venous thromboembolism,” “deep venous thrombosis,” “pulmonary embolism,” “craniotomy,” and “brain neoplasms.”

RESULTS

有1622名患者中进行分析。一个small majority of patients were female (52.6%) and the mean age of the cohort was 52.9 years (SD 15.8 years). A majority of intracranial lesions were intraaxial (59.3%). The incidence of VTEs was 3.0% and the rates of deep venous thromboses and pulmonary emboli were 2.3% and 0.9%, respectively. On multivariate analysis, increasing patient age (unit OR 1.02, 95% CI 1.00–1.05; p = 0.018), history of VTE (OR 7.26, 95% CI 3.24–16.27; p < 0.001), presence of motor deficit (OR 2.64, 95% CI 1.43–4.88; p = 0.002), postoperative intracranial hemorrhage (OR 4.35, 95% CI 1.51–12.55; p < 0.001), and prolonged intubation or reintubation (OR 3.27, 95% CI 1.28–8.32; p < 0.001) were independently associated with increased odds of a VTE. There were 192 patients who received VTE chemoprophylaxis (11.8%); the mean postoperative day of chemoprophylaxis initiation was 4.6 (SD 3.8). The incidence of VTEs was higher in patients receiving chemoprophylaxis than in patients not receiving chemoprophylaxis (8.3% vs 2.2%; p < 0.001). There were 30 instances of clinically significant postoperative hemorrhage (1.9%), with only 1 hemorrhage occurring after initiation of VTE chemoprophylaxis (0.1%).

CONCLUSIONS

The study results show the incidence and predictors of VTEs after craniotomy for tumor resection in this patient population. The incidence of VTE within this cohort appears low and comparable to that observed in other institutional series, despite the lack of routine prophylactic anticoagulation in the postoperative setting.

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Ryan M. Naylor, Christopher S. Graffeo, Cody L. Nesvick, Michael J. Link, Paul D. Brown, Scott L. Stafford, Nadia N. Laack, and Bruce E. Pollock

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The supplemented Spetzler-Martin (Supp-SM) grading system was developed to improve the predictive accuracy of surgical risk for patients with brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The aim of this study was to apply the Supp-SM grading system to patients having stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for Spetzler-Martin (SM) intermediate- (grade III) or high-grade (grade IV–V) AVMs to enable comparison with published microsurgical series.

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In 219 patients who underwent SRS during the period from 1990 to 2016, the Supp-SM grade was calculated for SM grade III (n = 154) or SM grade IV–V (n = 65) AVMs. The Supp-SM grades in these patients were 4 (n = 14, 6%), 5 (n = 36, 16%), 6 (n = 67, 31%), 7 (n = 76, 35%), and 8–9 (n = 26, 12%). Sixty patients (27%) had deep AVMs (basal ganglia, thalamus, or brainstem). Thirty-nine patients (18%) had volume-staged SRS; 41 patients (19%) underwent repeat SRS. The median follow-up period was 69 months for SM grade III AVMs and 113 months for SM grade IV–V AVMs.

RESULTS

一个VM obliteration was confirmed in 163 patients (74%) at a median of 38 months after initial SRS. The obliteration rates at 4 and 8 years were 59% and 76%, respectively. Thirty-one patients (14%) had post-SRS deficits from hemorrhage (n = 7, 3%) or radiation injury (n = 24, 11%). Six patients (3%) died after SRS (hemorrhage, n = 5; radiation injury, n = 1). The rates of neurological decline or death at 4 and 8 years were 11% and 18%, respectively. Factors predictive of nonobliteration were deep location (HR 0.57, 95% CI 0.39–0.82, p = 0.003) and increasing AVM volume (HR 0.96, 95% CI 0.93–0.99, p = 0.002). Increasing AVM volume was the only factor associated with neurological decline (HR 1.05, 95% CI 1.02–1.08, p = 0.002). The Supp-SM grading score did not correlate with either obliteration (HR 0.94, 95% CI 0.82–1.09, p = 0.43) or neurological decline (HR 1.15, 95% CI 0.84–1.56, p = 0.38).

CONCLUSIONS

The Supp-SM grading system was not predictive of outcomes after SRS of intermediate- or high-grade AVM. In a cohort that included a high percentage (47%) of "inoperable" AVMs according to Supp-SM grade (≥ 7), most patients had obliteration after SRS, although there was a high risk of neurological decline.

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