Journal «Angiology and Vascular Surgery» • 

2011 • VOLUME 17 • №3

Intraoperative monitoring of cerebral blood-flow and condition of cerebral at open and endovascular interventions in carotid system

Kuntcevich G.I.1, Tanashyan M.M.1, Scrylev S.I.1, Krotenkova M.V.1, Shchipakin V.L.1, Koshcheev A.Yu.1, Lagoda O.V.1, Gemdjian Ed.G.2, Medvedev R.B.1, Kulikova S.N.1
1 Research Centre of Neurology under the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia;
2 National Research Center for Hematology Laboratory of Biostatistics, Moscow, Russia.

The aim of our research is to study hemodynamic and embolic situation during the carotid endarterectomy (CEA), carotid angioplastic and stenting (CAS), and to reveal the prognostic significance of the data provided by intraoperative monitoring of the brain blood flow in exposing acute ischemic lesions in brain. Intraoperative monitoring of blood flow in artery ophthalmic vas carried out with 60% of patients, in the middle cerebral artery-with 40% during the main stages of CEA, and with 64 patients in the middle cerebral artery during CAS. The comparison of the data of intraoperative monitoring of blood flow in middle cerebral artery with the result of brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) 24 hours after the operation shows, that solid microembolic signals and vasospasm are prognostic signals (sensibility and specifics make up 95%) in the development of acute ischemic cerebral lesions. The monitoring of blood flow in artery ophthalmic is of the greatest diagnostic value in estimation of the hemodynamic situation, but it is of the lowest practical value in detecting microembolic signals. According to the data of the intraoperative blood flow monitoring in middle cerebral artery in group CEA the development of acute ischemic cerebral lesions were predicted with 11,1% of patients and the cause of postoperative stroke, developed by 2,9% of the patients, was specified. According to the result of DW-MRI, acute ischemic cerebral lesions were diagnosed with 21% of patients, that is, 18% of ischemic cerebral lesions were asymptomatic. In group CAS ischemic cerebral lesions were prognosed with 30% of patients, actually they were later detected with 40,6% of cases by means of DW-MRI. According to the data of intraoperative of blood flow monitoring the cause of the development of postoperative stroke was specified in 6,2% of cause; in 34,4% of cause the acute ischemic cerebral lesions were asymptomatic.

KEY WORDS: carotid endarterectomy, carotid angioplastic and stenting, intraoperative monitoring of blood flow, artery ophthalmic, middle cerebral artery, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, postoperative stroke.

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