Jean-Mathieu Mastantuono1, Christophe Combescure2,3, Nadia Elia1,3,4, Martin R Tramèr1,3, Christopher Lysakowski1,3. 1. Division of Anesthesiology, Department Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Intensive Care Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. 2. Clinical Trials Centre & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, University of Geneva & Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. 3. Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 4. Institute of Global Health, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of transcranial Doppler and transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler in patients with cerebral vasospasm due to aneurysm rupture. Angiography was considered as the gold standard comparator. DATA SOURCES: Search in MEDLINE, Embase, and Central from January 2001 to October 2017, without language restriction. Bibliographies of retrieved articles were screened for additional studies. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized studies comparing transcranial Doppler or transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler with angiography in adults. DATA EXTRACTION: Data were extracted independently by several investigators. Sensitivity and specificity were combined across studies using a bivariate model. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses was used for reporting and Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 for quality assessment. DATA SYNTHESIS: We included 18 studies. Fifteen tested transcranial Doppler. For the middle cerebral artery (10 studies, 1,408 tests), the pooled sensitivity was 66.7% (95% CI, 55.9-75.9) and specificity was 89.5% (80.3-94.7). Three studies (278 tests) tested transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler for the middle cerebral artery. The pooled sensitivity was 81.5% (66.0-90.0), and specificity was 96.6% (93.0-98.0). For an arbitrarily chosen prevalence of vasospasm of 70%, positive and negative predictive values were 93.7% (88.9-96.6) and 53.4% (46.7-60.9) for transcranial Doppler and 98.2% (96.4-99.1) and 69.1% (56.1-80.9) for transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler. CONCLUSIONS: Assuming a high prevalence of vasospasm of the middle cerebral artery, both transcranial Doppler and transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler are likely to detect it, but neither is useful to exclude it. There is no convincing evidence that the accuracy of transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler is any better than that of transcranial Doppler. For arteries other than middle cerebral artery, there is a lack of evidence of the usefulness of transcranial Doppler.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of transcranial Doppler and transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler in patients with cerebral vasospasm due to aneurysm rupture. Angiography was considered as the gold standard comparator. DATA SOURCES: Search in MEDLINE, Embase, and Central from January 2001 to October 2017, without language restriction. Bibliographies of retrieved articles were screened for additional studies. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized studies comparing transcranial Doppler or transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler with angiography in adults. DATA EXTRACTION: Data were extracted independently by several investigators. Sensitivity and specificity were combined across studies using a bivariate model. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses was used for reporting and Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 for quality assessment. DATA SYNTHESIS: We included 18 studies. Fifteen tested transcranial Doppler. For the middle cerebral artery (10 studies, 1,408 tests), the pooled sensitivity was 66.7% (95% CI, 55.9-75.9) and specificity was 89.5% (80.3-94.7). Three studies (278 tests) tested transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler for the middle cerebral artery. The pooled sensitivity was 81.5% (66.0-90.0), and specificity was 96.6% (93.0-98.0). For an arbitrarily chosen prevalence of vasospasm of 70%, positive and negative predictive values were 93.7% (88.9-96.6) and 53.4% (46.7-60.9) for transcranial Doppler and 98.2% (96.4-99.1) and 69.1% (56.1-80.9) for transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler. CONCLUSIONS: Assuming a high prevalence of vasospasm of the middle cerebral artery, both transcranial Doppler and transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler are likely to detect it, but neither is useful to exclude it. There is no convincing evidence that the accuracy of transcranial color-coded duplex Doppler is any better than that of transcranial Doppler. For arteries other than middle cerebral artery, there is a lack of evidence of the usefulness of transcranial Doppler.
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