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Acta Neurochir. Suppl. · Jan 2012
Randomized Controlled TrialA microdialysis study of oral vigabatrin administration in head injury patients: preliminary evaluation of multimodality monitoring.
- Keri L H Carpenter, Ivan Timofeev, Jürgens Nortje, Marek Czosnyka, John D Pickard, and Peter J Hutchinson.
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. klc1000@wbic.cam.ac.uk
- Acta Neurochir. Suppl. 2012 Jan 1;114:271-6.
BackgroundWe assessed the feasibility of administering a neuroprotective drug, vigabatrin (VGB; gamma-vinyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid) with multimodality monitoring, including cerebral microdialysis, in severe head injury patients, to measure surrogate endpoints and blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration.MethodsPatients (n = 20) were randomised to VGB (0.5 g twice-daily, enteric) or control. ICP, ABP, CPP and cerebrovascular pressure reactivity index (PRx) were monitored. Microdialysate glucose, lactate, pyruvate, glutamate, glycerol, amino acids, VGB and GABA were analysed.ResultsPreliminary evaluation of results (five VGB-treated patients) showed that VGB levels rose in brain microdialysates, followed by a modest increase in GABA. VGB and GABA increased more in abnormal brain than in sites further from lesions, and were higher after multiple VGB doses. Highest VGB and GABA microdialysate levels were 75 and 4 μmol/L respectively. Microdialysate glucose and glycerol sometimes decreased, and glutamate and tyrosine sometimes increased, following VBG administration; causation unproven. VGB did not overtly affect ICP, ABP, CPP, PRx, or microdialysate lactate, pyruvate and lactate/pyruvate ratio.ConclusionMultimodality monitoring, including cerebral microdialysis, is feasible for studying surrogate endpoints following drug administration. VGB crosses the BBB, leading to modest increases in extracellular GABA. Further analyses are ongoing. Microdialysis may assist the development of neuroprotective agents by determining penetration into extracellular fluid of the brain.
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