Journal: ASAIO Journal

Article Title: Noninvasive Neurological Monitoring in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

doi: 10.1097/mat.0000000000001013

Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 1. Diagram of the study protocol. *Brain CT without contrast was performed if the patient was stable enough to be transported. CT, computed tomography; EEG, electroencephalogram; GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; mRS, modified Rankin Scale; SSEP, somatosensory evoked potential; TCD, transcranial Doppler ultrasound.

Article Snippet: TCD (DWL; Compumedics DWL, El Paso, TX) was performed, and cerebral blood flow velocities (systolic, diastolic, and mean) were measured in both anterior (internal carotid artery, middle cerebral, anterior cerebral artery) and posterior (posterior cerebral artery, vertebral artery, basilar artery) intracranial circulation.

Techniques: Computed Tomography, Modification

Journal: Life

Article Title: Concomitant Dysregulation of Cerebral Vasoreactivity and Arterial Blood Pressure Is Closely Related in Patients with Carotid Stenosis

doi: 10.3390/life16030472

Figure Lengend Snippet: Chart flow of the present study. Assessment of the function of cerebrovascular reactivity and the cardiovascular autonomic nervous system in patients with severe internal carotid artery stenosis: three functional transcranial Doppler (TCD) tests were used to assess cerebrovascular reactivity, and the integrity of the cardiovascular autonomic nervous system was determined based on parameters of the validated autonomic indices of the Valsalva maneuver, namely sympathetic index, Valsalva heart rate ratio, and pressure recovery time. Both reduced cerebrovascular reactivity and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction may represent serious cerebrovascular risk factors. The image depicting severe internal carotid artery stenosis was obtained using duplex Doppler ultrasound in our laboratory and Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (Version 2602) was additionally use to prepare this figure.

Article Snippet: Bilateral middle cerebral artery (MCA) blood flow velocity (BFV, cm/s) was measured using 2 MHz transcranial Doppler (TCD) probes (DWL Multi-Dop T2, Compumedics Germany GmbH, Sipplingen, Baden, Germany) with participants in a semi-sitting position via the transtemporal window at a depth of 45–55 mm.

Techniques: Functional Assay