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- Darko Orešković, Jurica Maraković, Robert Varda, Milan Radoš, Ivana Jurjević, and Marijan Klarica.
- Ruđer Bošković Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: doresk@irb.hr.
- Neuroscience. 2018 Nov 10; 392: 164-171.
AbstractIntracranial hypertension, which often follows a severe brain injury, is usually treated with intravenous (i.v.) application of hyperosmolar solutions. The mechanism of intracranial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure decrease after such a treatment is still unclear. The aim of this article was to try to explain the mechanism of CSF pressure reduction after i.v. hyperosmolar mannitol bolus in regard to the changes in CSF volume. Two types of experiments were done on anesthetized cats before and after hyperosmolar mannitol application: ventriculo-cisternal perfusion at different perfusion rates, simultaneously measuring the perfusate outflow volume, and CSF pressure recording in the lateral ventricle before and during artificial CSF infusion. Mannitol application in the first group of cats significantly reduced collected prefusate volume during ventriculo-cisternal perfusion, and in the second group it prevented CSF pressure increase caused by artificial CSF infusion. Our results strongly suggest that the mechanism of hyperosmolar mannitol action after its i.v. application is based on osmotic fluid retrieval from interstitial and cerebrospinal compartments into the microvessels. This shift, without significant volume change inside the cranium, causes a predominant decrease of CSF volume in the spinal part of the system, which in turn leads to lowering of the CSF pressure. Spinal CSF volume decrease is enabled by the extensibility of the spinal dura, this way providing the possibility for CSF volume redistribution inside the CSF system, together with CSF pressure decrease. This mechanism of mannitol action is in accordance with the new hypothesis of CSF physiology.Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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