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Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo). 1998;38 Suppl:200-7.
Microsurgical resection of incompletely obliterated intracranial arteriovenous malformations following stereotactic radiosurgery.
Chang SD, Steinberg GK, Levy RP, Marks MP, Frankel KA, Shuster DL, Marcellus ML.
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA.
Radiosurgery is effective in obliterating small arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), but less successful in thrombosing larger AVMs. This study reviewed patients who underwent surgical resection of their large AVMs following failed radiosurgical obliteration. AVMs from 36 patients (aged 7 to 64 years, mean 29.9) were surgically resected 1 to 11 years after radiosurgery. Initial AVM volumes were 0.7 to 117 cm3 (mean 21.6 cm3), and radiosurgical doses ranged from 4.6 to 45 Gray equivalent (GyE) (mean 21.1 GyE). Thirty AVMs (83%) were located in eloquent tissue. Venous drainage was deep (14), superficial (13), or both (9). Spetzler grades were II (2), III (12), IV (18), and V (4). Nine patients suffered rehemorrhage after radiosurgery but prior to surgery, while three patients developed radiation necrosis. Twenty-seven patients underwent endovascular embolization prior to surgery. During microsurgical resection, the AVMs were found to be significantly less vascular and more easily resected, compared to AVMs in patients who had not received radiosurgery. Histology showed endothelial proliferation with hyaline and mineralization in vessel walls. Partial or complete thrombosis of some AVM vessels, and evidence of vessel and brain necrosis were noted in many cases. Clinical outcome was excellent or good in 34 cases, with two patients dying of rebleeding from residual AVM. Five patients were neurologically worse following microsurgical resection. Final outcome was largely related to the pretreatment grade. Radiosurgery several years prior to surgical resection appears useful in treating unusually large and complex AVMs.
Online source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10235006&dopt=Abstract hemorrhage
Abdom Imaging. 1999 May-Jun;24(3):246-9.
CT assessment of abdominal hemorrhage in coagulopathic patients: impact on clinical management.
Nazarian LN, Lev-Toaff AS, Spettell CM, Wechsler RJ.
Department of Radiology, 7th Floor, Main Building, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 132 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107-5244, USA.
BACKGROUND: To assess how computed tomography (CT) affected clinical management in coagulopathic patients with suspected spontaneous abdominal hemorrhage. METHODS: Fifty-four patients with coagulopathy underwent CT for possible abdominal hemorrhage. Medical records were reviewed retrospectively for pre-CT management strategy, degree of clinical suspicion for abdominal hemorrhage, CT findings, and post-CT management strategy. RESULTS: Abdominopelvic CT demonstrated hemorrhage in 31/54 (57%) of patients; 20/54 (37%) of patients had retroperitoneal hemorrhage, 2/54 (4%) had hemoperitoneum, and 9/54 (17%) had hemorrhage confined to the thigh, groin, and/or abdominal wall. CT directly affected clinical management in 28/54 (54%) cases; 17/31 (55%) CT scans that were positive for hemorrhage had a clinical impact versus 11/23 (48%) negative CT scans. This difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.61). CT scans with a higher pretest suspicion for abdominal hemorrhage were more likely to have hemorrhage detected (p = 0.0046) but not more likely to have a clinical impact (p = 0.73). CONCLUSIONS: CT to assess for abdominal hemorrhage had a direct impact on clinical management in about one-half of coagulopathic patients. Positive and negative CT studies were equally likely to affect management.
Online source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10227887&dopt=Abstract hemorrhage
Pancreas. 1999 May;18(4):355-63.
Platelet-activating factor antagonist (TCV-309) attenuates the priming effects of bronchoalveolar macrophages in cerulein-induced pancreatitis rats.
Yamaguchi Y, Matsumura F, Liang J, Okabe K, Matsuda T, Ohshiro H, Ishihara K, Akizuki E, Yamada S, Ogawa M.
Department of Surgery II, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
We investigated the role of platelet-activating factor (PAF) as a priming signal for cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC) expression by bronchoalveolar macrophages in acute pancreatitis. Pancreatitis was induced by four intramuscular injections of cerulein (50 micrograms/kg at 1-h intervals) in Wistar rats. The animals were injected intraperitoneally with 10 micrograms/kg of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a septic challenge. Pancreatitis rats were treated with a bolus intravenous injection of TCV-309 (3 or 30 micrograms/kg) 30 min before the septic challenge. Intense mononuclear cell infiltration and lung hemorrhage occurred in pancreatitis rats complicated with sepsis but were not seen in pancreatitis rats receiving a bolus TCV-309. Pancreatitis rats treated with TCV-309 had lower serum concentrations of CINC after septic challenge and lower levels of CINC messenger RNA (mRNA) in the lung, as well as fewer pulmonary infiltrates immunoreactive for CINC or Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18). In vitro CINC production in response to LPS by bronchoalveolar macrophages obtained from pancreatitis rats 6 h after the first cerulein injection, immediately before septic challenge, was enhanced but was significantly reduced in a TCV-309-sensitive manner. LPS-stimulated in vitro CINC production by naive bronchoalveolar macrophages was significantly enhanced by pretreatment with PAF. TMB-8 (an inhibitor of calcium release from endoplasmic reticulum) or W7 (calmodulin antagonist) completely abrogated the chemoattractant production by bronchoalveolar macrophages pretreated with PAF after LPS stimulation. Altered intracellular calcium, due to Ca2+ efflux from intracellular stores, may be involved in the "priming" of bronchoalveolar macrophages to release CINC after triggering with LPS during acute cerulein-induced pancreatitis. The PAF antagonist TCV-309 effectively prevented hyperactivity of bronchoalveolar macrophages and pancreatitis-associated lung injury after the septic challenge.
Online source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10231840&dopt=Abstract hemorrhage
Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao. 1999 Dec;21(6):415-20.
[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of brain-stem vascular malformations]
[Article in Chinese]
Wang C, Liu A.
Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Neuroscience, CAMS and PUMC, Beijing 100050.
OBJECTIVE: To study the various aspects of the brain-stem vascular malformations, including the histopathology, clinical presentation, neuroimaging, techniques of surgical operation. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 100 patients with 105 brain-stem vascular malformations had underwent microsurgery from 1987 to 1997 in the institute. RESULTS: Most brain-stem vascular malformations are cavernoma, some of them are not easily differentiated from telangiectasis. Meanwhile, they could also associate with venous malformation. In our group, 67% patients suffered from hemorrhage more than one time. The average number of bleeding in female is higher than in male's. There was no operative mortality. The outcome was improved and stable in 65% patients. Ninety-two patients have followed-up half a year to 11 years. Rebleeding after operation occurred in 4% cases. CONCLUSIONS: Active microsurgery should be adopted carefully for the patients with symptomatic brain-stem vascular malformations, while those with asymptomatic lesions need long-term clinical observations and neuroimaging follow-up.
Online source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12567486&dopt=Abstract hemorrhage [PubMed - in process]
Neurol Res. 1999 Apr;21(3):243-6.
Intra-ocular pressure changes during maximal isometric contraction: does this reflect intra-cranial pressure or retinal venous pressure?
Dickerman RD, Smith GH, Langham-Roof L, McConathy WJ, East JW, Smith AB.
Department of Surgery, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth 76107-2699, USA.
Recent publications have suggested that intra-ocular pressure (IOP) may be an indirect assessment of intra-cranial pressure (ICP). Both IOP and ICP have similar physiologic pressure ranges and similar responses to changes in intra-abdominal, intra-thoracic and aortic pressure. Previous studies have demonstrated the relationships between retinal arterial pressure and aortic pressure, intra-ocular pressure and retinal venous pressure, intra-cranial pressure and retinal venous pressure. Power athletes routinely utilize the Valsalva maneuver during weightlifting. In fact there are reports of stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, conjunctival, foveal and retinal hemorrhage, retinal detachment, hiatal hernia and pneumothorax associated with weightlifting. These events are thought to occur secondary to the extreme pressure elevations that occur in the intra-abdominal, intra-thoracic, intra-cranial, intra-ocular and vascular compartments. To date no human studies have examined the IOP changes that may occur with heavy resistance exercise. Therefore, we recruited power athletes (n = 11), who had participated in prior studies, from the local metropolitan area. The athletes had blood pressure status, drug screening and medical histories performed during previous investigations. Intra-ocular pressure was measured by noncontact tonometry at rest and during maximal isometric contraction. All subjects resting IOP were within normal ranges (mean 13 +/- 2.8 mmHg). Intra-ocular pressures were significantly (p < 0.0001) elevated in each subject during maximal contraction (mean 28 +/- 9.3 mmHg). One subject's IOP reached 46 mmHg during maximal contraction. Linear regression analysis demonstrated a significant linear relationship (r = 0.62, p < 0.0001) in the net change of IOP from rest to maximal contraction for each subject. This study demonstrates that IOP elevates to pathophysiologic levels during resistance exercise. The findings of conjunctival hemorrhages in two subjects further supports IOP being reflective of retinal venous pressure. The enormous pressures generated by power athletes during weightlifting leads to elevations in ICP which obstruct venous outflow leading to hemorrhage and elevations in IOP. The question remains as to whether these intermittent bursts of elevated IOP can lead to long-term pathological sequelae.
Online source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10319330&dopt=Abstract hemorrhage
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