Changes in cerebral blood flow pattern after carotid endarterectomy.
A comparison was made between pre- and postoperative cerebral blood flow measurements in 20 patients who underwent endarterectomy. Most patients showed no difference between both studies. However in 4 of the series an increase in blood flow was observed while in another 4 patients a decrease occurred. Especially patients with a low preoperative flow seemed to have profited from the endarterectomy.
Mosmans
P C
PC
Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit MBL-TNO, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Jonkman
E J
EJ
D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D002341:Carotid Artery Thrombosis / Q000601:surgery; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery; D004691:Endarterectomy; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes
D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes; D010100:Oxygen