Impairment of Cerebral Autoregulation Predicts Delayed Cerebral Ischemia After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Author(s) -
Karol P. Budohoski,
Marek Czosnyka,
Peter Smielewski,
Magdalena Kasprowicz,
Adel Helmy,
Diederik Bulters,
John D. Pickard,
Peter J. Kirkpatrick
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.112.669788
Subject(s) - medicine , vasospasm , transcranial doppler , subarachnoid hemorrhage , odds ratio , cerebral vasospasm , anesthesia , confidence interval , autoregulation , ischemia , cardiology , blood pressure
Delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) is a recognized contributor to unfavorable outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Recent data challenge the concept of vasospasm as the sole cause of ischemia and suggest a multifactorial process with dysfunctional cerebral autoregulation as a component. We tested the hypothesis that early autoregulatory failure, detected using near-infrared spectroscopy-based index, TOxa and transcranial Doppler-based index, Sxa, can predict DCI.
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