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18.07.2017 | Editorial
CTP and DCI: We Need Clarification
verfasst von:
Thomas Mattingly
Erschienen in:
Neurocritical Care
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Ausgabe 1/2017
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Excerpt
The work “Changes in Cerebral Perfusion with Induced Hypertension in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: a Pilot and Feasibility Study” by Murphy et al. [
1] is a retrospective investigation regarding the utility of computed tomography perfusion (CTP) before and after treatment of delayed clinical ischemia (DCI) via induced hypertension (IH). This work builds on an extensive history of treatment of DCI using “triple H therapy” by applying an efficient and widely available method of measuring cerebral blood flow. The literature surveyed in this paper reflects the current conflict regarding treatment of DCI: namely, DCI is linked to worse outcomes after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), but treatment of DCI has not been shown to improve outcomes. …