We report the case of a 4-year-old female child who developed an arterial ischemic stroke in the left middle cerebral artery territory, due to a proximal stenosis of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery, most probably related to transient cerebral arteriopathy of childhood. Computed tomography scan, magnetic resonance imaging, perfusion magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance angiography ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recent interest has emerged in the use of pharmacologic methods to maximize blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal intensity changes in functional MR imaging (fMRI). Adenosine antagonists, such as caffeine and theophylline, have been identified as potential agents for this purpose. The present study was designed to determine whether caffeine-induced decreases in ...

To determine the effects of mild blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI), several groups of rats were subjected to blast injury or sham injury in a compressed air-driven shock tube. The effects of bTBI on relative cerebral perfusion (laser Doppler flowmetry [LDF]), and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) cerebral vascular resistance were measured for 2 h post-bTBI. Dilator responses to reduc...

This paper presents an unified algorithm that enables detection of lesions in cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV) and time to peek (TTP) perfusion maps. The algorithm has one adaptive parameter for each type of perfusion map, the rest of algorithm is common for all kinds of perfusion images. There are two steps of the algorithm: in the first step the algorithm detects symmetr...

Abstract We herein describe our technique of “branch first continuous perfusion arch repair (BF-CPAR)” which does away with both cerebral circulatory arrest and the need for deep hypothermia. use this all aortic surgeries including type A acute dissections.

Measurements of cerebral perfusion have become an important part of diagnostic imaging and therapy monitoring in a variety of brain diseases. Magnetic resonance perfusion imaging provides high-resolution images of various perfusion parameters in addition to the important morphological information acquired during the same imaging session. In conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diff...

Background: The assessment of brain death can be challenging in critically ill patients, and cerebral perfusion quantification might give information on the brain tissue viability. Intravoxel incoherent motion perfusion imaging is a magnetic resonance imaging technique, which extracts perfusion information from a diffusion-weighted sequence, and provides local, microvascular perfusion assessmen...

The cerebral circulation was studied on 40 clinical cases which underwent open heart surgery under extracorporeal circulation by the low flow rate-hypothermic-hemodilution technique, by means of Kr85, opthalmoscope, blood gas and pH, and cerebral metabolism. Cerebral blood flow decreased to 65.2 per cent of the control value after the start of extracorporeal bypass, but recovered by the later p...

Magnetic resonance imaging sequences such as diffusion and spectroscopy have been well studied in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, but no data exist on magnetic resonance perfusion imaging. Since inflammation is known to modulate the microcirculation, we investigated the hypothesis that changes in the local perfusion might be one of the earliest signs of lesion development. Twenty patients with d...

Small shifts in brain temperature after hypoxia-ischaemia affect cell viability. The main determinants of brain temperature are cerebral metabolism, which contributes to local heat production, and brain perfusion, which removes heat. However, few studies have addressed the effect of cerebral metabolism and perfusion on regional brain temperature in human neonates because of the lack of non-inva...