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  • Title: Transcranial Doppler monitoring of cerebral flow velocities during surgical occlusion of the carotid artery.
    Author: Powers AD, Smith RR, Graeber MC.
    Journal: Neurosurgery; 1989 Sep; 25(3):383-8; discussion 388-9. PubMed ID: 2771009.
    Abstract:
    Transcranial Doppler (TCD) was used to assess collateral flow and to quantitate perfusion velocity changes in a group of 18 patients requiring temporary or permanent surgical occlusion of the internal carotid artery for treatment of their cerebrovascular lesions. Velocity measurements were correlated with times of occlusion and neurological outcome in order to assess safe vessel occlusion times and the need for an intraoperative shunt. These data were used to calculate a perfusion velocity index (PVi), which indicated that values greater than 2 were well tolerated, and values of less than 1 were associated with ischemic signs. In addition, preoperative TCD examinations were combined with compressive maneuvers of the carotid artery in the neck to evaluate the feasibility of carotid clamp ligation for the treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms deemed unsuitable for direct clipping. When maintenance of neurological function and intracranial vessel flow velocities were found to be normal, with aneurysmal flow velocities of zero, ligation of the carotid artery could safely be undertaken. Finally, TCD allowed continuous surveillance of cerebral hemodynamics, which gave immediate assurance of postoperative ICA patency, as well as the ability to identify high velocity states associated with hyperperfusion syndromes, which occurred in two patients.
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