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Table 2 Summary of the major studies published in the last 5 years about ultrasonographic optic nerve sheath diameter

From: POCUS, how can we include the brain? An overview

Author and year

Type of study

N

Type of patients

Cutoff (mm)

Main results and conclusion

Subramanian S. et al., 2021 [21]

Prospective observational

51

Patients with hydrocephalus and pre-procedure

5.5

ONSD on postoperative day 7 after CSF diversion correlates well with early surgical outcome. Rise in postoperative day 7 ONSD at follow-up correlates with failure of the CSF diversion procedure

Grupt and Pachisia, 2019 [22]

Prospective observational

100

All patients in whom lumbar puncture was indicated

6.3

There is a positive correlation of ONSD and CSF pressure. ONSD of >0.63 cm suggests a CSF pressure of >20 cm of water.

Agrawal, D et al., 2021 [23]

Prospective, blinded study of diagnostic accuracy

120

Consecutive patients with severe TBI

7.2

The optimal threshold was >0.72cm, with sensitivity 82% and specificity 79%. Optimal ODE threshold was >0.04cm, with sensitivity 90% and specificity 71%.

Çelik K et al., 2021 [24]

Prospective observational

162

TBI

-

A negative correlation was detected between ONSD values and GCS values and ONSD significantly increased in patients who died.

Xu H, et al., 2022 [25]

Prospective observational

529

Hemorrhagic stroke

5.9

ONSD of the poor outcome group was significantly greater than that of the favorable outcome group. ONSD improved the accuracy of ultraearly hematoma growth in the prediction of poor outcome by ROC curve.

Manouchehrifar M. et al., 2018 [26]

Prospective observational

80

Hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke

6.0

ONDS has moderate accuracy in differentiation of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke

Yüzbaşıoğlu Y., et al., 2018 [27]

Prospective, cross-sectional

108

Cerebrovascular disorders

5.7

A positive relationship was determined between NIHSS scores and ONSD values. The specificity and sensitivity values were determined as 98.1% and 81.8%, respectively, for a cutoff value of 5 mm and as 100% and 72.7%, respectively, for a cutoff value of 6 mm

Wang Li-juan, et al., 2018 [28]

Prospective observational

60

Suspected of having elevated ICP for various reasons

5.8

ICP and ONSD values obtained on admission were strongly correlated. The dilated ONSDs decreased along with the elevated ICP reduction at follow-up 1 month.

Jeon J. P. et al., 2017 [29]

Prospective observational

63

Patients who required an external ventricular drainage

5.6

ONSD > 5.6 mm disclosed a sensitivity of 93.75% and a specificity of 86.67% for identifying increased ICP (over 20 mmHg).

Liu D. et al., 2017 [30]

Prospective observational

110

Patients who underwent lumber puncture

5.6

A significant correlation was found between ICP and body mass index. A discriminant equation for predicting ICP = 0.169 × BMI + 1.484 × mean ONSD-12.74.

Ebraheim AM, et al., 2018 [31]

Prospective, observational

54

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

6.2

ONSD was significantly higher in patients compared to controls. ONSD could be a valuable noninvasive additional tool to diagnose and monitor IIH patients. IIH insignificantly influences ophthalmic vessels hemodynamics.

Kishk N. A. et al., 2018 [32]

Case-control

99

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

6.05

The best estimated cut-off value of the ONSD in detecting IIH was 6.05 mm. The sensitivity and the specificity were 73.2% and 91.4%, respectively. ONSD but not OND/ONSD ratio could offer a bedside adjunct or alternative indicator of elevated ICP for these patients.

Onder H. et al., 2021 [33]

Prospective, observational

103

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

6.3

The right ONSD values were higher in the IIH group. Using a cut-off of 6.3 mm, ONSD had the following performance characteristics: sensitivity 18%, specificity 81%.

Robba C et al., 2020 [8]

Prospective, observational

100

Neurological patients with invasive ICP monitoring for risk of

≥ 6.0

The area under the curve to estimate intracranial hypertension was 0.78 for ONSD. The multimodal combination of ONSD and eICP may increase the accuracy to estimate the occurrence of intracranial hypertension.

Robba C et al., 2017 [34]

Prospective, single-cohort observational

64

Brain injury requiring invasive ICP monitoring

5.85

ONSD is the best estimator of ICP. Model that best fitted the data: nICP ONSD : 5.00 × ONSD − 13.92mm Hg

Canakci Y. et al., 2018 [35]

Prospective, observational

100

patients who applied to the ER with the complaint of headache

≥5.0

In all cases with abnormal CT findings, ONSD measurements were significantly higher. ONSD value in the ipsilateral side with the lesion was significantly higher than the contralateral side.

Yazar M. À. et al., 2019 [36]

Prospective observational

45

Brain death

-

ONSD values of group brain (7.55 ±.29) death were significantly higher than both control group (5.07 ±.32) and comatose patients 6.99 ± .42.)

Robles-Caballero A. et al., 2021 [37]

Prospective cross-sectional

99

Brain death

-

ONSD values capable of recognizing CBF were not identified.

Ortner C. M. et al., 2018 [38]

Prospective observational cohort

95

Preeclampsia

5.8

ONSD were common in preeclampsia with severe features.

Simenc G. B. et al., 2018 [39]

Prospective, observational

60

Preeclampsia

5.8

ONDS diameter was significantly higher in patients with severe preeclampsia compared to controls before delivery, and one day and four days post-delivery

Sterrett M. E. et al., 2022 [40]

Cohort

62

Pregnant women

5.8

There was not a significant elevated optic nerve sheath diameter relative risk between severe preeclampsia patients with neurologic features and non-preeclampsia control patients

Ertl M. et al., 2018 [41]

Prospective, observational

 

Post cardiac arrest

5.75

Nonsurvivors showed significantly higher ONSD values (P < .001). For predicting mortality, a threshold of 5.75 mm was calculated with a specificity of 100%.

Yang 12/12/2022 11:50:00 AM Z et al., 2020 [42]

Prospective observational

90

Septic

5.5

The ONSD of patients with sepsis-associated encephalopathy was significantly wider than non-sepsis-associated encephalopathy patients.

Donovan J. et al., 2021 [43]

Prospective observational

107

Tuberculous meningitis

5.5

Higher baseline ONSD was associated with more severe disease and abnormal brain imaging and increased death by 3 months.

  1. The search strategy was the MESH terms of “intracranial hypertension AND Optic nerve sheath diameter”. In total, 512 studies were found in the last 5 years. Studies were excluded if duplicated (1), in non-English language studies (5), trial/protocol registration (4), case report (12), studies in healthy subjects (27), non-ultrasound (54), reviews (39), comments/responses (60), ophthalmologic pathology (38), including children (30), animals (147), concordance between other image methods (49), N < 45 patients (20), and retrospective (2). Hence, 24 publications were eligible for summarization in this table
  2. GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; ONDS, optic nerve sheath diameter; ODE, optic disc elevation; OND, optic nerve diameter; ER, emergency room; ICP, intracranial pressure; IIH, idiopathic intracranial hypertension; eICP, estimate intracranial pressure; ROC, receiver operating characteristic curve; CBF, cerebral blood flow velocity