Most cases of brain edema after arteriography are associated with focal brain infarction resulting from embolism or other vascular complications of the procedure. Rarely , brain edema not apparently a result of infarction has been reported as a complication of arteriography [1-4] . Available details of such cases are limited, but some authors have attributed the brain edema to a toxic effect of...

Massive cerebral infarction is often accompanied by early death, secondary to brain edema and trans-tentorial herniation. Several reports indicate beneficial effects of decompressive craniectomy in this situation, but the efficacy of this procedure is still a matter of debate. A n experimental study in a period of3 years was done on2 3 patients with brain edema due to massive cerebral infa...

Psychostimulants consumption is a serious social and health problem worldwide. The increase in drug abuse has a huge socio-economic impact in society, and more precisely carries great costs in health treatments. In fact, it is well known that cocaine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), amphetamine (AMPH) and methamphetamine (METH) have several neurotoxic effects, such as neurodegeneratio...

Brain edema (BE) research lacks quantitative regional methods. We modified the method of Pappius and McCann (1969), who used radioactive iodinated P serum albumin (R1SA) as a label for vasogenic BE fluid. To correct for intravascular plasma volume we used Cr^ labelled red blood cells and calculated equivalent extravascular plasma volume (EVPV). The modified RISA method was compared with a stand...

R. Ricci A. Bacci V. Tugnoli S. Battaglia M. Maffei R. Agati M. Leonardi BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Little is known about the metabolic properties of brain edema associated with tumors. This work was conducted on the basis of the assumption that, in the presence of intra-axial and extra-axial brain tumors, the white matter involved by the edema is a site of metabolic change that involves the struc...

objective(s): neuroprotective effects of female gonadal steroids are mediated through several pathways involving multiple peptides and receptors after traumatic brain injury (tbi). two of these peptides are including the regulatory peptides neuromedin u (nmu) and neuromedin s (nms), and their common receptor neuromedin u2 receptor (nmur2). this study investigates the effects of physiological do...

Cerebral ischemia is known to be accompanied by brain edema. This increase in brain tissue water content probably influences the final outcome of an ischemic insult negatively. Despite extensive investigations on different aspects of brain edema, information on edema development during the early recirculation period following ischemia is sparse. We assessed changes in brain water content, as re...

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...

IntroductIon Brain edema is a serious clinical event and could cause various neurological symptoms such as dizziness and headache. Drugs frequently used to relieve brain edema include steroid, dehydrant (e.g., mannitol), and diuretics. But the effects of these drugs were limited in patients with severe edema. Bevacizumab has been applied in the treatment of cerebral radiation necrosis.[1] Case ...