The clinical application and value of transcranial doppler monitoring senile cerebral blood flow autoregulation in elderly / 中国综合临床

Objective To study the clinical application and value of transcranial Doppler (TCD) monitoring senile cerebral blood flow autoregulation in elderly.Methods Two hundred cases patients with elderly hypertension and 200 cases normal eldly from May 2011 to December 2014 in the Second People 's Hospital of Fengrun District of Tangshan were chosen as hypertension group and control group.Cerebral artery peak systolic velocity,supine with a vertical artery in the brain(MCA) cerebral blood flow difference (CBFV) and X-W wave duration, cerebrovascular hemodynamic parameters of two group were monitored by TCD method and compared.Results The peak values of left vertebral artery (LVA), right vertebral artery (RVA), the left coronary artery(LCS), and right vertebral artery(RCS) of hypertension group were significantly lower than those in the control group((38.01±12.42) cm/s vs (45.21±8.95) cm/s, (35.54±13.25) cm/s vs (43.52±7.06) cm/s, (66.12±9.52) m/s vs (76.54±8.19) cm/s, (71.24± 11.25) cm/s vs (77.98± 10.74) cm/s, (55.34 ±14.52) cm/s vs (61.24±12.58) cm/s,(48.12±15.24) cm/s vs (58.46±18.85) cm/s;t=4.6821, 5.6987,6.2589,4.3671,2.2854,4.9875;P＜ 0.01).The peak Vp, the difference between the horizontal and vertical position CBFV, X-W wave duration, the parameter of DR, Cp, C, Co, Zc, Wv of arterial blood vessels (left internal carotid artery (LICA), right internal carotid artery (RICA), left middle cerebral artery (LMCA), right middle cerebral artery(RMCA) ,left anterior cerebral artery(LACA), right anterior cerebral artery(RACA), left anterior cerebral artery (LOA), right middle cerebral artery (ROA)) of hypertension group were significantly higher than those of control group((96.38±18.85) cm/s vs (83.56±13.41) cm/s, (103.04±35.42) cm/s vs (85.62±29.63) cm/s, (99.85±23.54) cm/s vs (83.12±22.67) cm/s, (102.84± 16.42) cm/s vs (86.23 ±21.34) cm/s, (85.06± 15.36) cm/s vs (73.16± 10.35) cm/s, (85.64± 15.34) cm/s vs (70.52± 18.56) cm/s, (34.85±8.74) cm/s vs (28.56±7.85) cm/s, (35.12± 11.20) cm/s vs (30.05± 6.88) cm/s, (7.22 ± ±2.54) cm/s vs (2.78± 1.87) cm/s, (23.74±5.23) cm/s vs (20.85±4.35) cm/s, (378.35±35.12) Pa? s/cm vs (314.53±36.21) Pa? s/cm, (8.16± 0.62) P/kPa vs (7.25± 0.68) P/kPa, (0.41 ± 0.05) ml/kPa vs (0.33±0.06) ml/kPa, (1.15±0.16) mL/kPa vs (0.84±0.13) ml/kPa, (346.13±42.63) dyn? s/cm5 vs (241.68±50.21) dyn? s/cm5, (21.47± 3.85) V/(cml? s) vs (11.24 ± 3.67) V/(cml? s);t =5.8954, 4.2589,4.8792,6.3985,6.3874,6.9852,5.6387,4.6892,6.0387,4.8562, 11.475,8.041,12.422, 11.820, 12.854,20.412;P＜0.01).Conclusion The function of automatic adjustment shows obvious abnormal cerebral blood flow in patients with hypertension, andthe TCD technology can response of cerebral blood flow autoregulation,which has important clinical value for diagnosis and treatment of cerebral infarction, stroke and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Fluoxetine and Sertraline Attenuate Postischemic Brain Injury in Mice

This study aimed to investigate whether selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) attenuate brain injury and facilitate recovery following photothrombotic cortical ischemia in mice. Male ICR mice were anesthetized and systemically administered Rose Bengal. Permanent focal ischemia was induced in the medial frontal and somatosensory cortices by irradiating the skull with cold light laser. The animals were treated with fluoxetine or sertraline once a day for 14 d starting 1 h after ischemic insult. Treatment with fluoxetine and sertraline significantly reduced the infarct size. The Evans blue extravasation indices of the fluoxetine- and sertraline-treated groups were significantly lower than that of the vehicle group. Treatment with fluoxetine and sertraline shifted the lower limit of the mean arterial blood pressure for cerebral blood flow autoregulation toward normal, and significantly increased the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) proteins in the ischemic region. These results suggest that SSRIs, such as fluoxetine and sertraline, facilitate recovery following photothrombotic cortical ischemia via enhancement of HO-1 and HIF-1alpha proteins expression, thereby providing a benefit in therapy of cerebral ischemia.

Continuous assessment of cerebral autoregulation in subarachnoid hemorrhage / 中国康复理论与实践

@#ObjectiveTo examined how autoregulation is affected by vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) by using transcranial Doppler. MethodsThe moving correlation coefficient between slow changes of arterial blood pressure and mean or systolic flow velocity (FV), termed Mx and Sx, respectively, was used to characterize cerebral autoregulation. Vasospasm was declared when the mean FV increased to more than 120 cm/s and the Lindegaard ratio was more than 3. This occurred in 15 of 32 SAH patients.On the basis of the bilateral transcranial Doppler recordings of the middle cerebral artery in vasospastic patients, Mx and Sx were calculated for baseline and vasospasm. ResultsMx increased during vasospasm (0.46±0.32) and was significantly higher (P=0.03) than at baseline (0.21±0.24) Sx was also increased (0.22±0.26 vs 0.05±0.21,P=0.03). Mx correlated with mean FV (P=0.577, P=0.006) and the Lindegaard ratio (r=0.672,P<0.01).Mx(P=0.006) and Sx (P=0.044) were higher on the vasospastic side compared with the contralateral side.ConclusionThe increased Mx and Sx during cerebral vasospasm demonstrate impaired cerebral autoregulation. Mx and Sx provide additional information on changes in autoregulation in SAH patients.

An automatic selections method for cerebral blood flow autoregulation signals from neonates

Interpretation and quantification of cerebral blood flow autoregulation can be carreid out from step responses to arterial blood pressure changes estimated with various identification methods. However estimates usually need to be visually inspected to rejected some that are not physiologically acceptable...