scholarly journals The Role of Transcranial Doppler Sonography in the Management of Pediatric Hydrocephalus

2019 ◽  

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
S Fontaine ◽  
M Lafortune ◽  
F Cattin ◽  
H Patriquin


2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (3a) ◽  
pp. 715-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Bor-Seng-Shu ◽  
Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira ◽  
Roberto Hirsch ◽  
Almir Ferreira de Andrade ◽  
Raul Marino Jr

The role of decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of severe posttraumatic cerebral swelling remains quite a controversial issue. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study demonstrating the effect of decompressive craniectomy on cerebral blood flow (CBF) velocity by means of transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD). We present two patients who developed traumatic brain swelling and uncontrollable intracranial hypertension with coma and signs of transtentorial herniation. One patient underwent bifrontal, while the second, unilateral, frontotemporoparietal decompressive craniectomy with dural expansion. In both patients, TCD examinations were performed immediately before and after surgery to study the cerebral hemodynamic changes related to the operations. Pre and postoperative TCD examinations demonstrated a significant increase in blood flow velocity in the intracranial arteries in both subjects. In conclusion, our cases suggest that decompressive craniectomy with dural expansion may result in elevation of CBF velocity in patients with massive brain swelling. The increase in CBF velocity appears to occur not only in the decompressed hemisphere, but also on the opposite side.





1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (06) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Grünwald ◽  
P. Barzó ◽  
E. Ambrus ◽  
C. Menzel ◽  
A. Schomburg ◽  
...  

ZusammenfassungBei 29 Patienten (3 Kontrollpersonen, 26 Patienten mit zerebrovaskulärer Erkrankung) wurde prospektiv die Hirn-SPECT mit 99mTC-HMPAO und bei 20 Patienten (3 Kontrollpersonen, 17 Patienten mit ZVK) die transkranielle Dopplersonographie (TCD) vor und nach i. v. Gabe von Azetazolamid durchgeführt. Die Sensitivität der Hirn-SPECT erhöhte sich mit Azetazolamid von 62% auf 77%. Bei Patienten mit reversiblem neurologischem Defizit wurde eine Verbesserung von 50% auf 71 %, bei Patienten mit persistierendem Defizit von 75% auf 83% beobachtet. Die Ergebnisse der Hirn-SPECT und der TCD stimmten in der Beurteilung der zerebro-vaskulären Reservekapazität in 91% der Hemisphären überein. Die Korrelation zwischen den beiden Methoden war statistisch signifikant.



2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Victoria Joan Woodhead ◽  
Paul Andrew Thompson ◽  
Emma Karlsson ◽  
Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop

A previous study we reported in this journal suggested that left and right handers may differ in their patterns of lateralisation for different language tasks. However, it had too few left handers (N=7) to reach any conclusions. For this update paper, further participants were added to the sample to create separate groups of left (N=31) and right handers (N=43). Two hypotheses were tested: 1) that lateralisation would be weaker at the group level in left than right handers; and 2) that left handers would show weaker covariance in lateralisation between tasks, supporting a two factor model.All participants performed the same protocol as in our previous paper: lateralisation was measured using functional transcranial Doppler sonography during six different language tasks, on two separate testing sessions. The results supported hypothesis 1, with significant differences in laterality between groups for four out of six tasks. For hypothesis 2, structural equation modelling showed that there was stronger evidence for a two factor model in left than right handers; furthermore, examination of the factor loadings suggested that the pattern of laterality across tasks may also differ between handedness groups. These results expand on what is known about the differences in laterality between left and right handers.



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