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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2014

Imaging of cerebral blood flow in patients with severe traumatic brain injury in the neurointensive care.

Elham Rostami, Henrik Engquist, Per Enblad

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Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Diffuse traumatic brain injury in mice is associated with a transient mismatch of cerebral blood flow and energy metabolism.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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  9. Tracing the path of disruption:CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024
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  11. The Renin Angiotensin System as a Therapeutic Target in Traumatic Brain Injury.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elham RostamiSection of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden ; Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden.
Henrik EngquistDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.
Per EnbladSection of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ischemia is a common and deleterious secondary injury following traumatic brain injury (TBI). A great challenge for the treatment of TBI patients in the neurointensive care unit (NICU) is to detect early signs of ischemia in order to prevent further advancement and deterioration of the brain tissue. Today, several imaging techniques are available to monitor cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the injured brain such as positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography, xenon computed tomography (Xenon-CT), perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and CT perfusion scan. An ideal imaging technique would enable continuous non-invasive measurement of blood flow and metabolism across the whole brain. Unfortunately, no current imaging method meets all these criteria. These techniques offer snapshots of the CBF. MRI may also provide some information about the metabolic state of the brain. PET provides images with high resolution and quantitative measurements of CBF and metabolism; however, it is a complex and costly method limited to few TBI centers. All of these methods except mobile Xenon-CT require transfer of TBI patients to the radiological department. Mobile Xenon-CT emerges as a feasible technique to monitor CBF in the NICU, with lower risk of adverse effects. Promising results have been demonstrated with Xenon-CT in predicting outcome in TBI patients. This review covers available imaging methods used to monitor CBF in patients with severe TBI.

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brain injurycerebral blood flowimagingneurointensive careXenon-CT

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PMID25071702
PMCPMC4083561

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