Purpose: To evaluate the protective effect, effective time window, and mechanism of protection sevoflurane post-conditioning late on heart muscle ischemiareperfusion (I/R) lesion in isolated rat heart.Methods: Langendorff perfusion model was established Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. After 15 min stabilization, rats were assigned to 10 groups, based treatments given: control group (TTC), I/R group, ...

background: cerebral vasospasm is a preventable cause of death and disability in patients who experience aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah). the aim of this study is to investigate the incidence of cerebral vasospasm following traumatic sah and its relationship with different brain injuries and severity of trauma. method s: this cross-sectional study was conducted from october 2006 to mar...

background cerebral state index (csi) is derived from electroencephalograms to monitor the level of consciousness during anesthesia. some evidence shows that this indicator has been used to detect cerebral ischemia and prognostic outcomes for traumatic brain injury (tbi). objectives the present study was designed to investigate the correlation between glasgow coma score (gcs) and csi for brain-...

traumatic basal ganglia hematoma is a rare condition defined as presence of hemorrhagic lesions in basal ganglia or adjacent structures suchas internal capsule, putamen and thalamus. bilateral basal ganglia hematoma are among the devastating and rare condition. we herein report a 28-year old man, a victim of car-car accident who was brought to our surgical emergency room by immediate loss of co...

traumatic brain injury is a common entity. however cerebral infarction in infants is a rare entity while the diagnosis of this pathology in the pediatric population is usually difficult. the mild head trauma is rarely accompanied by intracranial injury and even less, with cerebral infarction. we herein report the first case of cerebral infarction after a mild brain trauma in a 2-year-old latin-...

While a wide array of pathological changes occur in cerebral arteries following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the most consistent is endothelial damage. Since the endothelium normally modulates reflexes that influence vascular tone, any damage to it may represent a significant contributor to cerebral vasospasm following SAH. This experimental study investigates the correlation between end...