ArticleAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2025
Evaluation of Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension Probabilistic Brain MRI Scoring Systems in Normal Patients.
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- Critical Reappraisal and Validation of the Bern Score System for Diagnosing Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
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Abstract
background and purposeProbabilistic brain MRI scoring systems have been introduced to stratify the likelihood of identifying a CSF leak at myelography in spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). The Bern scoring system by Dobrocky and colleagues is now well recognized, with a scoring system by Benson and colleagues introduced more recently (referred to as the Mayo score in this study). Neither of these scoring systems have been thoroughly evaluated in patients without SIH. The goal of this study was to evaluate these scoring systems in patients without SIH to understand the specificity of these MRI findings. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe retrospectively reviewed normal brain MRIs performed in patients without clinically suspected SIH. Each examination was reviewed by 1 of 4 board-certified neuroradiologists with extensive experience in SIH, and all criteria of both scoring systems were evaluated and recorded.
resultsNinety patients were included. Bern score was low probability in 78% and intermediate probability in 22%. Mayo score was low probability in 100%. Relatively high rates of positivity were seen in 3 specific Bern score parameters, including prepontine cistern effacement 5.0 mm or less (53%), decreased mammilopontine distance 6.5 mm or less (40%), and suprasellar cistern effacement 4.0 mm or less (28%). All intermediate probability Bern scores were due to suprasellar cistern effacement plus either or both prepontine cistern effacement and decreased mammilopontine distance. All other parameters of both scoring systems were either never or very rarely positive.
conclusionsAll intermediate probability Bern scores were due to decreased CSF cistern measurements, which had relatively high positivity rates in our non-SIH patient cohort. Due to substantial overlap with normal patients, these measurements are not specific indicators of "brain sag," a hallmark imaging finding for SIH, and are not specific for SIH when the only "positive" brain MRI finding(s). The Mayo score is likely more specific for SIH with low probability scores in all patients in our cohort.
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