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  • Title: Brain lesion size and phase shift as an index of cerebral autoregulation in patients with severe head injury.
    Author: Müller M, Bianchi O, Erülkü S, Stock C, Schwerdtfeger K, Homburg Traumatic Brain Injury Group (HOTBIG).
    Journal: Acta Neurochir (Wien); 2003 Aug; 145(8):643-7; discussion 647-8. PubMed ID: 14520542.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Whether the phase relationship (phase shift) between cerebral blood flow velocity as assessed by transcranial Doppler ultrasound and blood pressure at 0.1 Hz can be used to assess cerebral autoregulation (CA) in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS: In 33 healthy volunteers (mean age, SD; 37+/-17 years, range 17-65) middle cerebral artery (MCA) blood velocity (V) was recorded simultaneously with finger blood pressure (BP) over a period of 10 minutes under normocapnic and hypocapnic conditions to generate normative data. In 27 patients with severe TBI (Glasgow Coma scale score < or =8) serial close in time investigations of cranial computed tomography (CT) scanning and phase shift assessment were performed on days 1, 3, 5, and 8 after trauma. Phase shift in the MCA was compared to brain parenchyma lesion size in the MCA territory on CT scanning. Lesion size was classified into 0, normal; 1, presence of a small lesion (diameter <3 cm); 2, presence of a large lesion (>3 cm). FINDINGS: Compared to normocapnia, hypocapnia significantly increased phase shift at 0.1 Hz from 78+/-28 degrees to 101+/-25 degrees (p < 0.001). In the TBI patients, 115 comparisons between CT findings and CA results were possible. Phase shift detected a pathological CA in 31 instances, which were more frequent in CT lesion type 2 (19/42) than in group 0 (7/44) and group 1 (5/29). INTERPRETATION: When CA is intended to be assessed by use of phase shift, the hyperventilation setting needs its own reference values. In MCA territories containing a traumatic lesion greater than 3 cm in diameter phase shift at 0.1 Hz will detect a high frequency (44%) of a disturbed state of CA.
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