title: Vertebrobasilar insufficiency: stable xenon computed tomography-cerebral blood flow study in posterior circulation revascularization.
abstract: Preoperative and postoperative local cerebral blood flow were measured by the stable xenon computed tomography-cerebral blood flow technique in 15 patients with vertebrobasilar insufficiency. The surgery included end-arterectomy or angioplasty of the vertebral artery (five cases), superficial temporal artery-superior cerebellar artery anastomosis (eight cases), and superficial temporal artery-posterior cerebral artery anastomosis (two cases). Fourteen (93.3%) of the 15 patients improved in the post-operative period. Low local cerebral blood flow in the ischemic area without infarction manifested a constant and significant increase postoperatively. In summary, the stable xenon computed tomography-cerebral blood flow technique is thought to be a simple and useful method for assessing local cerebral blood flow in posterior circulation perioperatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Neurological Institute, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Touho
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karasawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shishido
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibamoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002548:Cerebral Revascularization; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014978:Xenon
chemical_list: D014978:Xenon