Chapter title |
Assessment of the Correlations Between Brain Weight and Brain Edema in Experimental Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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Chapter number | 15 |
Book title |
Brain Edema XVI
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Published in |
Acta neurochirurgica Supplement, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-18497-5_15 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-918496-8, 978-3-31-918497-5
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Authors |
Yu Hasegawa, Hidenori Suzuki, Takashi Nakagawa, Ken Uekawa, Nobutaka Koibuchi, Takayuki Kawano, Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama |
Abstract |
Because brain edema is correlated with poor outcome in clinical subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), appropriate evaluation methods for brain edema are important in experimental SAH studies. Although brain water content (BWC) is widely used to evaluate brain edema in stroke research, the usefulness of brain weight is undetermined. In this study, we examined the role of brain weight in the evaluation of brain edema in experimental SAH. The endovascular perforation model of SAH was used, and rats were assessed by neurological scoring (NS). The brains were quickly removed at 24 h after the operation, and the weights of wet cerebrum (WWC) and dry cerebrum (WDC) were measured to determine the brain water content (BWC). The correlations of those values with each other and to body weight (BW) were then examined to reveal the significance of brain weight. The rats were assigned to sham-operated (n = 8) and SAH (n = 16) groups. There were no significant differences in WWC between the groups (p = 0.61). WWC was correlated with BWC but not with NS in all rats. In addition, WWC was clearly correlated with BW and WDC, which is thought to substitute for the original brain weight. From these results, we suggest that the measurement of brain weight as an evaluation of brain edema is limited and that BW and original brain volume can be confounding factors in evaluation. |
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