BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP), subjected to high NaCl intake, show severe hypertension, organ damage, and early death. Preventive treatment with an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor is known to reduce mortality. Previously we found that proteinuria always precedes cerebral edema in SHRSP. Hence, in this study ACE inhibition was started l...

objective(s) opioid abuse is still remained a major mental health problem, a criminal legal issue and may cause ischemic brain changes including stroke and brain edema. in the present study, we investigated whether spontaneously withdrawal syndrome might affect stroke outcomes. materials and methods addiction was induced by progressive incremental doses of morphine over 7 days. behavioral signs...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a life-threatening acute metabolic complication occurring in patients with type 1 diabetes, due to an insulin deficiency. Moderate hypertriglyceridemia commonly observed DKA but severe triglyceride level exceeding 10 g/l very rarely reported. Acute kidney injury (AKI) serious condition which still carries mortality of around 50%. Cerebral edema devastating leading...

background: stroke is the third leading cause of invalidism and death in industrialized countries. there are conflicting reports about the effects of angiotensin ii on ischemia-reperfusion brain injuries and most data have come from chronic hypertensive rats. in this study, hypotensive and non-hypotensive doses of candesartan were used to investigate the effects of angiotensin ii at1 receptor b...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify whether the distribution of Hounsfield Unit (HU) values across the intracranial area in computed tomography (CT) images can be used as an effective diagnostic tool for determining the severity of cerebral edema in pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. METHODS CT images, medical records and radiology reports on 70 pediatric patien...

The brain achieves homeostasis of its intracellular and extracellular fluids by precisely regulating the transport of solute and water across its major cellular barriers: endothelia of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), choroid plexus epithelia, and neuroglial cell membranes. Cerebral edema, the pathological accumulation of fluid in the brain's intracellular and extracellular spaces, is a major cau...

The mechanisms responsible for cerebral edema formation in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) are not well understood, although evidence suggests ischemia as a contributing factor. Previous studies have shown that the Na-K-Cl cotransporter of cerebral microvascular endothelial cells and astrocytes is a major participant in ischemia-induced cerebral edema in stroke. The present study was conducted to t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Global cerebral edema is common among patients with poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage and is associated with poor outcome. Currently no targeted therapy exists largely due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying mechanisms. METHODS This is a prospective observational study including 39 consecutive patients with poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage with multimoda...

During a Plasmodium chabaudi infection in interleukin-10 (IL-10) knockout mice, there is greater parasite sequestration, more severe cerebral edema, and a high frequency of cerebral hemorrhage compared with infection of C57BL/6 mice. Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment ameliorated both cerebral edema and hemorrhages, suggesting that proinflammatory responses contributed to cerebral compl...