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Treatment of experimental focal cerebral ischemia with mannitol. Assessment by intracellular brain pH, cortical blood flow, and electroencephalography.

Abstract
Intracellular brain pH, cortical blood flow (CBF), and electrocorticograms were recorded in regions of severe and moderate ischemia in 10 control rabbits and 10 rabbits given mannitol, 1 gm/kg, after occlusion of a major branch of the middle cerebral artery. Pooling the data from all 20 animals, preocclusion CBF was 46.4 +/- 3.6 ml/100 gm/min and intracellular brain pH was 7.01 +/- 0.04 (means +/- standard error of the means). Although mannitol administration mildly improved CBF in regions of severe ischemia, this increase was not sufficient to prevent metabolic deterioration as assessed by brain pH. However, in regions of moderate ischemia, CBF improved significantly with mannitol and the gradual decline in brain pH observed in control animals was prevented. For example, in the treated moderate ischemia sites 4-hour postocclusion CBF and pH values were 31.8 ml/100 gm/min and 6.89 +/- 0.09, respectively, as compared to control values of 14.3 ml/100 gm/min and 6.75 +/- 0.06. These results suggest that mannitol may be of benefit in stabilizing regions of moderate, but not severe, ischemia after vessel occlusion.
AuthorsF B Meyer, R E Anderson, T M Sundt Jr, T L Yaksh
JournalJournal of neurosurgery (J Neurosurg) Vol. 66 Issue 1 Pg. 109-15 (Jan 1987) ISSN: 0022-3085 [Print] United States
PMID3097275 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Mannitol
Topics
  • Animals
  • Brain (metabolism)
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation (drug effects)
  • Electroencephalography
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Ischemic Attack, Transient (drug therapy)
  • Mannitol (therapeutic use)
  • Rabbits

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