Interrelationships Between Inflammatory Score, Delayed Cerebral Ischemia and Unfavorable Outcome in Patients with aSAH: A Four-Way Decomposition

Peng Zhang, Haiyang Zhu, Xinbo Li, Yiwei Qian, Yehao Zhu, Weizhong Zhang, Zhiyuan Yan, Haoqi Ni, Zhongxiao Lin, Xiao Lin, Zequn Li, Qichuan Zhuge, Bo Zeng · 2024

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Peng Zhang and co-authors build an inflammation score to forecast harm after a brain aneurysm bursts. The bleeding, called aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, can be followed days later by delayed cerebral ischemia, a second wave of brain injury tied to poor outcomes. The team used machine learning to pick blood markers and combined four of them into one score for 368 patients.

The score tracked both the delayed injury and poor outcome on its own. A four-way decomposition then split how the score's effect flows: part acts directly, part passes through the delayed injury, and a large part comes from the two reinforcing each other. Adding the score to an existing forecast model sharpened its accuracy and sorting power. The authors present the score as a cheap, blood-based way to flag high-risk patients early and to understand how inflammation and delayed injury combine.

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CREATORPeng Zhang, Haiyang Zhu, Xinbo Li, Yiwei Qian, Yehao Zhu, Weizhong Zhang, Zhiyuan Yan, Haoqi Ni, Zhongxiao Lin, Xiao Lin, Zequn Li, Qichuan Zhuge, Bo Zeng
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE33 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11653884

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