The Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury on Cerebral Blood Flow and Autoregulation: A Review
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension
- Vol. 21 (4), 299-332
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10641969909068668
Abstract
In this decade, the brain argueably stands as one of the most exciting and challenging organs to study. Exciting in as far as that it remains an area of research vastly unknown and challenging due to the very nature of its anatomical design: the skull provides a formidable barrier and direct observations of intraparenchymal function in vivo are impractical. Moreover, traumatic brain injury (TBI) brings with it added complexities and nuances. The development of irreversible damage following TBI involves a plethora of biochemical events, including impairment of the cerebral vasculature, which render the brain at risk to secondary insults such as ischemia and intracranial hypertension. The present review will focus on alterations in the cerebrovasculature following TBI, and more specifically on changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF), mediators of CBF including local chemical mediators such as K+, pH and adenosine, endothelial mediators such as nitric oxide and neurogenic mediators such as catecholamines, as well as pressure autoregulation. It is emphasized that further research into these mechanisms may help attenuate the prevalence of secondary insults and therefore improve outcome following TBI.Keywords
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