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Cerebral Hemodynamics During Spinal Cord Stimulation
Author(s) -
MEGLIO MARIO,
CIONI BEATRICE,
VISOCCHI MASSIMILIANO
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1991.tb04057.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodynamics , spinal cord , anesthesia , stimulation , spinal cord stimulation , cardiology , psychiatry
An increase of cerebral blood flow (CBF) during spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been shown in man using the 133Xenon inhalation technique. We report the effects of SCS on cerebral hemodynamics studied with transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD). Twenty‐six patients with epidural electrodes implanted at the cervical level (11 patients) and at the thoracic level (15 patients) were investigated with recordings of CBF velocity in the middle cerebral arteries before and during SCS, Sixty‐three and two‐thirds percent of patients with cervical stimulation and 29.4% of patients with thoracic stimulation showed a decrease afcerebral vas‐cularresistance simultaneously with an increase of the velocity of CBF.