Modified Rankin Scale and Short-Term Outcome in Cranial Neurosurgery: A Prospective and Unselected Cohort Study

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• 作者：Elina Reponen¹ ; ^{elina.reponen@hus.fi" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Hanna Tuominen¹ ; Juha Hernesniemi² ; Miikka Korja²
• 关键词：Craniotomy ; modified Rankin Scale ; Outcome
• 刊名：World Neurosurgery
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：91
• 期：Complete
• 页码：567-573.e7
• 全文大小：1466 K

文摘

The modified Rankin Scale (mRS) was developed to monitor functional recovery after stroke, but nowadays it is a treatment outcome measure in elective neurosurgery. Our objective was to study how mRS changes associate with short-term postoperative outcome.

Methods

Preoperative, in-hospital, and 30-day mRS scores came from a prospective, consecutive and unselected cohort of 418 adult elective craniotomy patients enrolled between December 2011 and December 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. Recorded data included subjective and objective postoperative in-hospital complications as well as changes in mRS score after surgery.

Results

Minor or major complications were detectable in 46% of the patients. In-hospital and 30-day postoperative increases in mRS score were inconsistent; among patients with no complications, 17% had a greater mRS score at discharge and 24% at 30 days, whereas 28% of the patients with major complications showed no increase in mRS score at discharge. Of individual complications, only new or worsened hemiparesis, silent stroke, and pneumonia were associated with postoperative increase (>2) in mRS score after multivariable analysis. For mRS-score difference > 1 at discharge in detecting major complications (including mortality), sensitivity was 45% and specificity 94%.

Conclusions

The mRS changes after elective cranial neurosurgery are inconsistent. The mRS seems to represent functional changes, which do not necessarily associate with detected in-hospital complications.