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In vivo Monitoring of Cerebral Hemodynamics in the Immature Rat: Effects of Hypoxia-Ischemia and Hypothermia.

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BACKGROUND:Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI) encephalopathy occurs in 1-4 per 1,000 live term births and can cause devastating neurodevelopmental disabilities. Currently, therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the only treatment with proven efficacy. Since TH is associated with decreased cerebral metabolism and cerebral blood flow (CBF), it is important to assess CBF at the bedside. Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) has emerged as a promising optical modality to noninvasively assess an index of CBF (CBFi) in both humans and animals. In this initial descriptive study, we employ DCS to monitor the evolution of CBFi following HI with or without TH in immature rats. We investigate potential relationships between CBF and subsequent cerebral damage. METHODS:HI was induced on postnatal day 10 or 11 rat pups by right common carotid artery ligation followed by 60-70 min hypoxia (8% oxygen). After HI, the pups recovered for 4 h under hypothermia (HI-TH group, n = 23) or normothermia (HI-N group, n = 23). Bilateral measurements of hemispheric CBFi were made with DCS in unanesthetized animals at baseline, before HI, and 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 24 h after HI. The animals were sacrificed at either 1 or 4 weeks, and brain injury was scored on an ordinal scale of 0-5 (0 = no injury). RESULTS:Carotid ligation caused moderate bilateral decreases in CBFi. Following HI, an initial hyperemia was observed that was more prominent in the contralateral hemisphere. After initiation of TH, CBFi dropped significantly below baseline levels and remained reduced for the duration of TH. In contrast, CBFi in the HI-N group was not significantly decreased from baseline levels. Reductions in CBFi after 4 h of TH were not associated with reduced damage at 1 or 4 weeks. However, elevated ipsilateral CBFi and ipsilateral-to-contralateral CBFi ratios at 24 h were associated with worse outcome at 1 week after HI. CONCLUSIONS:Both HI and TH alter CBFi, with significant differences in CBFi between hypothermic and normothermic groups after HI. CBFi may be a useful biomarker of subsequent cerebral damage.

journal_name

Dev Neurosci

journal_title

Developmental neuroscience

authors

Buckley EM,Patel SD,Miller BF,Franceschini MA,Vannucci SJ

doi

10.1159/000381704

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-01-01 00:00:00

pages

407-16

issue

4-5

eissn

0378-5866

issn

1421-9859

pii

000381704

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pub_type

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In vivo Monitoring of Cerebral Hemodynamics in the Immature Rat: Effects of Hypoxia-Ischemia and Hypothermia.