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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 374-384Publisher
CAMBRIDGE MED PUBL
DOI: 10.1177/147323000603400406
Keywords
propofol; sevoflurane; inhalation anaesthesia; intravenous anaesthesia; positron emission tomography
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This study compared brain glucose metabolism during sevoflurane anaesthesia and propofol anaesthesia using positron emission tomography (PET) in the same eight human volunteers. All the volunteers were anaesthetized twice, with a 1-week interval. Half of the volunteers received sevoflurane on the first occasion and propofol on the second; the other half received the two anaesthetics in the reverse order. PET scans using F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose were performed after sevoflurane or propofol anaesthesia. The relative glucose metabolic rate (rGMR) in the brain was assessed with statistical parametric mapping. Propofol suppressed the rGMR of the neocortex area more than sevoflurane, and sevoflurane suppressed the rGMR of the paleocortex and telencephalon more than propofol. These findings suggest that these two anaesthetics act via different mechanisms and may provide an important clue to the relationship between anaesthesia and the brain.
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