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Regional cerebral blood flow after omental transposition to the ischaemic brain in man. A five year follow-up study

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Regional cerebral blood flow, recorded by the133Xenon inhalation method, was measured preoperatively and over a five years postoperative period in six patients with completed stroke and stabilized neurological deficits, who had undergone omental transposition for revascularization of the ischaemic brain. Comparisons of the preoperative blood flow values with those recorded following surgery demonstrate a postoperative increase of blood flow in five patients, with a high statistical degree of significance in four of them at the final examination. The flow increase was noted over the infarcted areas of the brain, upon which the omentum had been placed, as well as areas of the ischaemic hemisphere without omental placement and the contralateral hemisphere. Out of the five patients who demonstrated preoperative flow values below the expected norm for age, four showed final postoperative cerebral blood flow within the normal limits for their age. The results are consistent with the assumption that the transposed omentum played a role in postoperative blood flow increase, by adding collateral circulation to the ischaemic brain.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Boston University Medical School, Boston, USA

    H. S. Goldsmith M. D.

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Sassari Medical School, Sassari, Italy

    P. Bacciu

  3. Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Sassari Medical School, Sassari, Italy

    P. Ruju

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    M. Cossu, A. Pau, E. Sehrbundt Viale & G. L. Viale

  6. Department of Neurophysiopathology, University of Genoa Medical School, Genoa, Italy

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Goldsmith, H.S., Bacciu, P., Cossu, M. et al. Regional cerebral blood flow after omental transposition to the ischaemic brain in man. A five year follow-up study. Acta neurochir 106, 145–152 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01809458

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