Feasibility, Safety, and Outcome of Endovascular Recanalization in Childhood Stroke: The Save ChildS Study

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Contributors

  • Peter B. Sporns - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Ronald Sträter - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Jens Minnerup - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Heinz Wiendl - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Uta Hanning - , University of Hamburg (Author)
  • René Chapot - , Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus (Author)
  • Hans Henkes - , Klinikum Stuttgart (Author)
  • Elina Henkes - , Klinikum Stuttgart (Author)
  • Astrid Grams - , Innsbruck Medical University (Author)
  • Franziska Dorn - , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Author)
  • Omid Nikoubashman - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Martin Wiesmann - , RWTH Aachen University (Author)
  • Georg Bier - , University of Münster, University of Tübingen (Author)
  • Anushe Weber - , University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum GmbH (Author)
  • Gabriel Broocks - , University of Hamburg (Author)
  • Jens Fiehler - , University of Hamburg (Author)
  • Alex Brehm - , University of Göttingen (Author)
  • Marios Psychogios - , University of Göttingen (Author)
  • Daniel Kaiser - , Institute and Polyclinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Umut Yilmaz - , Saarland University (Author)
  • Andrea Morotti - , IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Casimiro Mondino - Pavia (Author)
  • Wolfgang Marik - , Medical University of Vienna (Author)
  • Richard Nolz - , Medical University of Vienna (Author)
  • Ulf Jensen-Kondering - , Kiel University (Author)
  • Bernd Schmitz - , Ulm University (Author)
  • Stefan Schob - , Leipzig University (Author)
  • Oliver Beuing - , Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Author)
  • Friedrich Götz - , Hannover Medical School (MHH) (Author)
  • Johannes Trenkler - , Kepler University Hospital (Author)
  • Bernd Turowski - , Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Author)
  • Markus Möhlenbruch - , Heidelberg University  (Author)
  • Christina Wendl - , University of Regensburg (Author)
  • Peter Schramm - , Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Lübeck (Author)
  • Patricia Musolino - , Harvard University (Author)
  • Sarah Lee - , Stanford University (Author)
  • Marc Schlamann - , University of Cologne (Author)
  • Alexander Radbruch - , University of Duisburg-Essen (Author)
  • Nicole Rübsamen - , University of Münster (Author)
  • André Karch - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Walter Heindel - , University of Münster (Author)
  • Moritz Wildgruber - , University of Münster (Author)
  • André Kemmling - , University of Münster (Author)

Abstract

Importance: Randomized clinical trials have shown the efficacy of thrombectomy of large intracranial vessel occlusions in adults; however, any association of therapy with clinical outcomes in children is unknown. Objective: To evaluate the use of endovascular recanalization in pediatric patients with arterial ischemic stroke. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective, multicenter cohort study, conducted from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2018, analyzed the databases from 27 stroke centers in Europe and the United States. Included were all pediatric patients (<18 years) with ischemic stroke who underwent endovascular recanalization. Median follow-up time was 16 months. Exposures: Endovascular recanalization. Main Outcomes and Measures: The decrease of the Pediatric National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (PedNIHSS) score from admission to day 7 was the primary outcome (score range: 0 [no deficit] to 34 [maximum deficit]). Secondary clinical outcomes included the modified Rankin scale (mRS) (score range: 0 [no deficit] to 6 [death]) at 6 and 24 months and rate of complications. Results: Seventy-three children from 27 participating stroke centers were included. Median age was 11.3 years (interquartile range [IQR], 7.0-15.0); 37 patients (51%) were boys, and 36 patients (49%) were girls. Sixty-three children (86%) received treatment for anterior circulation occlusion and 10 patients (14%) received treatment for posterior circulation occlusion; 16 patients (22%) received concomitant intravenous thrombolysis. Neurologic outcome improved from a median PedNIHSS score of 14.0 (IQR, 9.2-20.0) at admission to 4.0 (IQR, 2.0-7.3) at day 7. Median mRS score was 1.0 (IQR, 0-1.6) at 6 months and 1.0 (IQR, 0-1.0) at 24 months. One patient (1%) developed a postinterventional bleeding complication and 4 patients (5%) developed transient peri-interventional vasospasm. The proportion of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage events in the HERMES meta-analysis of trials with adults was 2.79 (95% CI, 0.42-6.66) and in Save ChildS was 1.37 (95% CI, 0.03-7.40). Conclusions and Relevance: The results of this study suggest that the safety profile of thrombectomy in childhood stroke does not differ from the safety profile in randomized clinical trials for adults; most of the treated children had favorable neurologic outcomes. This study may support clinicians' practice of off-label thrombectomy in childhood stroke in the absence of high-level evidence.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-34
Number of pages10
JournalJAMA neurology
Volume77
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 31609380
ORCID /0000-0001-5258-0025/work/146644941

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