TY - JOUR T1 - Treatment of Poor-Grade Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Trial JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. SP - 116 LP - 120 DO - 10.3174/ajnr.A4061 VL - 36 IS - 1 AU - D. Mitra AU - B. Gregson AU - V. Jayakrishnan AU - A. Gholkar AU - A. Vincent AU - P. White AU - P. Mitchell Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/36/1/116.abstract N2 - BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Management of poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage is based on limited evidence from small single-center retrospective observational studies. The purpose of this study was to undertake a single-center randomized controlled feasibility trial comparing a strategy of early endovascular aneurysm treatment with treatment after neurologic recovery in this group of patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with poor-grade SAH were randomized within 24 hours of admission to early treatment or treatment after neurologic recovery. If a patient was randomized to early treatment, the aneurysm was treated endovascularly within 24 hours of randomization. Recruitment rate, safety profile, and functional outcome at the time of discharge and at 6 months were assessed. RESULTS: Fourteen of 51 patients screened were eligible for the trial. Of these 14, 8 patients were randomized (57%). All patients in the early coiling arm received treatment within 24 hours of randomization. There was no treatment-related complication. Overall, good outcome occurred in 25% of patients; the mortality rate was 75%. Patients in the early treatment arm (n = 5) had a good outcome rate of 20%, while those in treatment after neurologic recovery arm (n = 3) had a good outcome rate of 33.3%. CONCLUSIONS: This was a feasibility study that demonstrated that recruitment and randomization for comparing management strategies in poor-grade SAH are feasible. The recruitment rate among eligible patients was encouraging (57%), though a number of patients had to be excluded due to ineligibility. A multicenter study is necessary to recruit the numbers required to compare the clinical outcomes of these management strategies. ISATInternational Subarachnoid Aneurysm TrialWFNSWorld Federation of Neurosurgical Societies ER -