Intracranial pressure and brain monitoring XIII : mechanisms and treatment

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Cerebrovascular reactivity and autonomic drive following traumatic brain injury....Pages 3-7
A comparison between the transfer function of ABP to ICP and compensatory reserve index in TBI....Pages 9-13
Cranioplasty effect on the cerebral hemodynamics and cardiac function....Pages 15-20
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for consciousness disturbance following head injury in subacute phase....Pages 21-24
Gender-related differences in intracranial hypertension and outcome after traumatic brain injury....Pages 25-28
Long term outcomes following decompressive craniectomy for severe head injury....Pages 29-31
Relationship of a cerebral autoregulatory index with outcome in head injured patients....Pages 33-36
Assessment of cerebrovascular resistance with model of cerebrovascular pressure transmission....Pages 37-41
Generation of very low frequency cerebral blood flow fluctuations in humans....Pages 43-47
Accuracy of non-invasive ICP assessment can be increased by an initial individual calibration....Pages 49-52
The impact of ventricular catheter impregnated with antimicrobial agents on infections in patients with ventricular catheter: interim report....Pages 53-55
Assessment of mitochondrial impairment and cerebral blood flow in severe brain injured patients....Pages 57-61
Mathematical models of cerebral hemodynamics for detection of vasospasm in major cerebral arteries....Pages 63-69
Intracranial pressure in patients with sepsis....Pages 71-75
Intracranial pressure and cerebral oxygenation changes after decompressive craniectomy in children with severe traumatic brain injury....Pages 77-80
Are head injury guidelines changing the outcome of head injured children? A regional investigation....Pages 81-84
Low frequency pressure waves of possible autonomic origin in severely head-injured children....Pages 85-88
Controlled lumbar drainage in medically refractory increased intracranial pressure. A safe and effective treatment....Pages 89-91
Decompressive craniotomy: durotomy instead of duroplasty to reduce prolonged ICP elevation....Pages 93-97
Ventriculostomy for control of raised ICP in acute traumatic brain injury....Pages 99-104
Intracranial pressure variability and long-term outcome following traumatic brain injury....Pages 105-108
Predictive values of age and the Glasgow Coma Scale in traumatic brain injury patients treated with decompressive craniectomy....Pages 109-112
Noninvasive estimation of intracranial compliance in idiopathic NPH using MRI....Pages 115-118
The role of cerebrospinal fluid flow study using phase contrast MR imaging in diagnosing idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus....Pages 119-123
Course of disease in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH): a follow-up study 3, 4 and 5 years following shunt implantation....Pages 125-127
Chronic hydrocephalus that requires shunting in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage [a-SAH]: its impact on clinical outcome....Pages 129-130
Morphological changes of intracranial pressure pulses are correlated with acute dilatation of ventricles....Pages 131-136
Pulse amplitude of intracranial pressure waveform in hydrocephalus....Pages 137-140
The influence of co-morbidity on the postoperative outcomes of patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH)....Pages 141-144
ICM+, a flexible platform for investigations of cerebrospinal dynamics in clinical practice....Pages 145-151
Pathophysiology and diagnosis of spontaneous intracranial hypotension....Pages 153-156
Intraoperative infrared brain surface blood flow monitoring during superficial temporal artery–middle cerebral artery anastomosis in a patient with moyamoya disease: clinical implication of the gradation value in postoperative clinical course – A case report....Pages 159-163
Clinical study of craniospinal compliance non-invasive monitoring method....Pages 165-169
Cerebral CO 2 reactivity in severe head injury. A transcranial Doppler study....Pages 171-175
Acetazolamide vasoreactivity evaluated by transcranial power harmonic imaging and Doppler sonography....Pages 177-183
A new semi-invasive method for two dimensional pO 2 measurements of cortical structures....Pages 185-188
The relationship between intracranial pressure and brain oxygenation following traumatic brain injury in sheep....Pages 189-192
Dual microdialysis probe monitoring for patients with traumatic brain injury....Pages 193-196
In vitro comparison of two generations of Licox and Neurotrend catheters....Pages 197-202
Cerebral metabolism monitoring during hypothermia following resuscitation from cardiopulmonary arrest....Pages 203-206
Nitric oxide in acute brain injury: a pilot study of NO x concentrations in human brain microdialysates and their relationship with energy metabolism....Pages 207-213
The brain monitoring with Information Technology (BrainIT) collaborative network: data validation results....Pages 217-221
BrainIT collaborative network: analyses from a high time-resolution dataset of head injured patients....Pages 223-227
Pilot application of fractal characterisation and its response to change on physiological wave forms....Pages 229-233
The predictive value of ICP as compared to magnetic resonance imaging in comatose patients after head injury....Pages 237-240
Metabolic disturbance without brain ischemia in traumatic brain injury: A positron emission tomography study....Pages 241-245
Concordant biology underlies discordant imaging findings: diffusivity behaves differently in grey and white matter post acute neurotrauma....Pages 247-251
Qualitative aspects of cranial CT perfusion scanning in a mixed neurosurgical patient collective....Pages 253-257
Study of perfusion in and around cerebral contusions by means of computed tomography....Pages 259-262
Magnetic resonance measurement of blood and CSF flow rates with phase contrast – normal values, repeatability and CO 2 reactivity....Pages 263-270
Motor trephine syndrome: A mechanistic hypothesis....Pages 273-277
Biomechanical modeling of decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury....Pages 279-282
Coupling of sagittal sinus pressure and cerebrospinal fluid pressure in idiopathic intracranial hypertension – a preliminary report....Pages 283-285
The measurement of brain tissue stiffness in-vivo....Pages 287-289
Changes in brain biochemistry and oxygenation in the zone surrounding primary intracerebral hemorrhage....Pages 293-297
Prediction of early mortality in primary intracerebral hemorrhage in an asian population....Pages 299-303
Ischemic events after carotid interventions in relationship to baseline cerebrovascular reactivity....Pages 305-306
Effect of increased intracranial pressure on cerebral vasospasm in SAH....Pages 307-310
Cerebral blood flow thresholds predicting new hypoattenuation areas due to macrovascular ischemia during the acute phase of severe and complicated aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. A preliminary study....Pages 311-316
Hyperbaric oxygen preconditioning activates ribosomal protein S6 kinases and reduces brain swelling after intracerebral hemorrhage....Pages 317-320
Stroke with subarachnoid hemorrhage: assessment of cerebrovascular pressure regulation and simulated cerebrovascular resistance....Pages 321-325
Effects of melatonin in early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage....Pages 327-330
Decompressive craniectomy for hemispheric infarction: predictive factors for six month rehabilitation outcome....Pages 331-333
Effects of temperature changes on cerebral biochemistry in spontaneous intracerebral hematoma....Pages 335-338
Increased levels of CSF heart-type fatty acid-binding protein and tau protein after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage....Pages 339-343
DNA vaccination against neurite growth inhibitors to enhance functional recovery following traumatic brain injury....Pages 347-351
Ischemic blood-brain barrier and amyloid in white matter as etiological factors in leukoaraiosis....Pages 353-356
Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition attenuates brain edema after surgical brain injury....Pages 357-361
Thrombin enhances glioma growth....Pages 363-366
The antioxidant effects of melatonin in surgical brain injury in rats....Pages 367-371
Dymanics of matrix-metalloproteinase 9 after brain trauma – results of a pilot study....Pages 373-376
Experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage in the rat: influences of nimodipine....Pages 377-379
Neuroprotective effect of C1-inhibitor following traumatic brain injury in mice....Pages 381-384
Up-regulation of L type amino acid transporter 1 after spinal cord injury in rats....Pages 385-388
Cortical expression of prolactin (PRL), growth hormone (GH) and adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) is not increased in experimental traumatic brain injury....Pages 389-390
Simvastatin attenuates cerebral vasospasm and improves outcomes by upregulation of PI3K/Akt pathway in a rat model of subarachnoid hemorrhage....Pages 391-394
HIF-1 alpha inhibition ameliorates neonatal brain damage after hypoxic-ischemic injury....Pages 395-399
Simvastatin treatment in surgically induced brain injury in rats....Pages 401-404
3% Hypertonic saline following subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats....Pages 405-408
Effect of traumatic brain injury on cognitive function in mice lacking p55 and p75 tumor necrosis factor receptors....Pages 409-413
Brain contusions induce a strong local overexpression of MMP-9. Results of a pilot study....Pages 415-419
Shock wave-induced brain injury in rat: Novel traumatic brain injury animal model....Pages 421-424
Modulation of AQP4 expression by the selective V1a receptor antagonist, SR49059, decreases trauma-induced brain edema....Pages 425-429
The modulation of aquaporin-4 by using PKC-activator (phorbol myristate acetate) and V1a receptor antagonist (SR49059) following middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion in the rat....Pages 431-436
Pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic elements of the neuroinflammatory response are activated in traumatic brain injury....Pages 437-439
Protective effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on experimental brain contusions....Pages 441-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-452