Long-term outcomes and prognostic factors in patients with treated spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To define the pattern of long-term clinical outcomes and prognostic factors in patients with spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (SDAVFs).

Desgin

Prospective cohort study based on constantly recruiting patients with SDAVFs in two medical centres in China.

Setting

Patients with SDAVFs were recruited consecutively between March 2013 and December 2014 in two referral centres.

Participants

A prospective cohort of 94 patients with SDAVFs was included in this study, and 86 patients (mean age 53.0 years, 71 men) completed the study. Patients who had previously undergone endovascular or neurosurgical treatment or had neurological dysfunction caused by other diseases or refused treatment were excluded.

Interventions

All patients underwent neurosurgery o

SUBMITTER: Yang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724715 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature