• Neurological research · Dec 2001

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    Clinical cerebral microdialysis: brain metabolism and brain tissue oxygenation after acute brain injury.

    • J Meixensberger, E Kunze, E Barcsay, A Vaeth, and K Roosen.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, University of Würzburg, Germany. meix@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
    • Neurol. Res. 2001 Dec 1;23(8):801-6.

    AbstractWhile continuous monitoring of brain tissue oxygenation (P(ti)O2) is known as a practicable, safe and reliable monitoring technology supplementing traditional ICP-CPP-monitoring, the impact of cerebral microdialysis, now available bedside, is not proven extensively. Therefore our studies focused on the practicability, complications and clinical impact of microdialysis during long term monitoring after acute brain injury, especially the analysis of the correlation between changes of local brain oxygenation and metabolism. Advanced neuromonitoring including ICP-CPP-p(ti)O2 was performed in 20 patients suffering from acute brain injury. Analysis of the extracellular fluid metabolites (glucose, lactate, pyruvate, glutamate) were performed bedside hourly. No catheter associated complications, like infection and bleeding, occurred. However, longterm monitoring was limited in 5 out of 20 patients caused by obliteration of the microdialysis catheter after 3-4 days. In the individual patients partly a correlation between increased lactate levels as well as lactate pyruvate ratios and hypoxic brain tissue oxygenation could be found. Analysing the data sets of all patients only a low correlation was detected indicating physiological and increased lactate and lactate/pyruvate ratio during sufficient brain oxygenation. Additionally, concentrations of excitatory amino acid glutamate were found in normal and elevated range during periods of hypoxic oxygenation (P(ti)O2 < 10 mmHg) and intracranial hypertension. Our data strongly suggest partly evidence of correlation between hypoxic oxygenation and metabolic disturbances after brain injury. On the other hand brain metabolism is altered without changes of cerebral oxygenation. Further studies are indicated to improve our pathophysiological knowledge before microdialysis is routinely useful in neurointensive care.

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