منابع مشابه
Decompressive Craniectomy.
Decompressive Craniectomy (DC) is used to treat elevated intracranial pressure that is unresponsive to conventional treatment modalities. The underlying cause of intracranial hypertension may vary and consequently there is a broad range of literature on the uses of this procedure. Traumatic brain injury (TBI), middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction, and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)...
متن کاملDecompressive craniectomy in pediatric patients
More frequently than adults, pediatric victims of severe traumatic brain injury experience diffuse severe cerebral edema without mass lesions. These patients require methods to reduce intracranial pressure quickly and reliably. Surgical decompression provides rapid relief of increased intracranial pressure and is an alternative to maximal medical therapy for these individuals. Based on previous...
متن کاملDecompressive craniectomy in subarachnoid hemorrhage.
OBJECT The aim of this study was to analyze decompressive craniectomy (DC) in the setting of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with bleeding, infarction, or brain swelling as the underlying pathology in a large cohort of consecutive patients. METHODS Decompressive craniectomy was performed in 79 of 939 patients with SAH. Patients were stratified according to the indication for DC: 1) primary brai...
متن کامل[Does decompressive craniectomy improve other parameters besides ICP? Effects of the decompressive craniectomy on tissular pressure?].
Second level therapeutic maneuvres for controlling intracranial hypertension (ICH) proposed by the European Brain Injury Consortium and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons include barbiturates, moderate hypothermia and more recently the decompressive craniectomy (DC).In most patients, ICP can be maintained below 25 mmHg after a DC. However, the exact effect of DC on brain oxygenat...
متن کاملC. Balan, B. Alliez Decompressive Craniectomy 73 Decompressive Craniectomy – from option to standard – Part II
The paper intends an update to the theoretical and practical data on a seldom utilized technique but often considered as last therapeutically option, so the necessity to realize it correctly. In this second part are presented the indications of the technique for each type of pathology, together with the results and latest guideline indications.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JHN Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2325-2839
DOI: 10.29046/jhnj.005.1.004