Prognostic values of gray matter to white matter ratios on early brain computed tomography in adult comatose patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac etiology

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5997474	Resuscitation	2015	7 Pages	PDF

Abstract

In a cohort of comatose adults after OHCA of cardiac etiology, the GWR demonstrated poor predictive performance and was not helpful in predicting poor outcomes.

Keywords

CPC OHCA ROSC GCs IQR GWR ROC Corpus callosum AUC Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR Posterior limb of the internal capsule Heart arrest restoration of spontaneous circulation computed tomography Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Cerebral performance category confidence interval Medial cortex interquartile ranges Brain Glasgow coma scale area under the ROC curve odds ratio caudate nucleus Therapeutic hypothermia hounsfield unit Edema PLIC Putamen prognosis receiver operating characteristic

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Prognostic values of gray matter to white matter ratios on early brain computed tomography in adult comatose patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac etiology

Authors

Byung Kook Lee, Kyung Woon Jeung, Kyoung Hwan Song, Yong Hun Jung, Wook Jin Choi, Soo Hyun Kim, Chun Sung Youn, In Soo Cho, Dong Hun Lee, for the Korean Hypothermia Network Investigators for the Korean Hypothermia Network Investigators,