Middle meningeal artery embolization versus standard of care for chronic subdural hematoma: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
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Abstract
Background The safety and efficacy of the middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) in patients with non-acute or chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) has significant reporting within recent literature, however, mainly in the form of observational data. Methods We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis including all available randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that compared MMAE in addition to standard of care (SOC) versus SOC alone for cSDH. The primary outcome was the rate of recurrence and reoperation. Secondary outcomes included serious adverse events (SAEs), mortality rate, independent ambulation (modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score 0 – 3), and changes in hematoma characteristics at 90 days. The fixed-effect or random-effects model was used based on the significancy of the heterogenicity (I 2 > 50%, P < .1). Results Findings showed significant superiority of MMAE over SOC in 90-day recurrence (RR = 0.55, 95% CI = 0.36 – 0.83, P = .0047, I 2 = 43.3%), reoperation within 180 days (RR = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.26–0.56, P < .001, I 2 = 0.0%), ambulatory functional outcome (RR = 1.034, 95% CI = 1.0–1.07, P = .0296, I 2 = 53.9%), SAE at any time (RR = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.38–0.94, P = .025, , I 2 = 0.0%), and 90-day any-cause mortality (RR = 0.29, 95% CI = 0.14–0.6, P = .0008, I 2 = 0.0%). Successful embolization and 30-day embolization-related complications occurred in 99.2% (95% CI = 94.54% – 100%) and 1.18% (95% CI = 0.39% – 2.31%) of patients, respectively. Additionally, subgroup analyses on major and pilot RCTs, comparison of embolic agents, and MMAE adjuvant to surgery versus surgery alone confirmed these findings. Conclusion MMAE appears to be safe and effective in the management of cSDH with low recurrence and SAE rate.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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