ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2016
Use of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Brain Death in Patients with Severe Cerebral Injury.
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- Multi-Modal Assessment of Cerebral Hemodynamics in Resuscitated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients: A Case-Series.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Monitoring of Neuroendocrine Changes in Acute Stage of Severe Craniocerebral Injury by Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Image Features Based on Artificial Intelligence Algorithm.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2021Article
- Confirmation of Brain Death with Positron Emission Tomography.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2020Article
- Effects of one-lung flooding on porcine haemodynamics and gas exchange.International journal of medical sciences · 2020Article
- The Role of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of Brain Death.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2019Review
- Technical Considerations in the TCD Evaluation of Cerebral Circulatory Arrest in Death by Neurological Criteria.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of NeuroimagingReview
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Abstract
BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the use of transcranial Doppler (TCD) for diagnosis of brain death in patients with severe cerebral injury. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective study enrolled 42 patients based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. All patients were divided into either the brain death group or the survival group according to prognosis. Blood flow of the brain was examined by TCD and analyzed for spectrum changes. The average blood flow velocity (Vm), pulse index (PI), and diastolic blood flow in reverse (RDF) were recorded and compared. RESULTS The data demonstrated that the average speed of bilateral middle cerebral artery blood flow in the brain death group was significantly reduced (P<0.05). However, the PI of the brain death group increased significantly. Moreover, RDF spectrum and nail-like sharp peak spectrum of the brain death group was higher than in the survival group. CONCLUSIONS Due to its simplicity, high repeatability, and specificity, TCD combined with other methods is highly valuable for diagnosis of brain death in patients with severe brain injury.
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