Brain death: determination with brain stem evoked potentials and radionuclide isotope studies.
Thirty-three patients fulfilling the clinical criteria for brain death were tested by Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEP) and Radionuclide Cerebral Angiography and Brain Perfusion Studies. There was a significant correlation between the BAEP and radionuclide study outcomes. All patients with absence of BAEP showed no cerebral perfusion. These findings, added to the clinical findings, resulted in a final diagnosis of brain death in all patients. It is concluded that BAEP and Radionuclide Cerebral Perfusion studies are useful adjuncts for proving that brain death has really occurred.
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Hacettepe University Medical School, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey.
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Cataltepe
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Topcu
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Erbas
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Aras
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D002648:Child; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon