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ACTA NEUROLOGICA SCANDINAVICA
Volume 108, Issue 3, Pages 211-215Publisher
BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2003.00095.x
Keywords
cerebral microdialysis; glucose; glutamate; glycerol; head injury; lactate/pyruvate ratio
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We describe a penumbra zone with increased biochemical vulnerability in cerebral cortex underlying an evacuated acute subdural haematoma. Two microdialysis catheters were placed in this zone and one catheter was placed in the opposite, less injured hemisphere. The microdialysis perfusates were analysed bedside for glucose, pyruvate, lactate, glutamate, and glycerol. In the penumbra zone, but not in the opposite hemisphere, energy metabolism was seriously disturbed with signs of cell membrane degradation. During an adverse event (decrease in haemoglobin level, systemic blood pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure) the perturbation of energy metabolism increased in this zone. Energy metabolism recovered and the signs of cell membrane degradation disappeared after normalization of the physiological parameters. We use the term biochemical penumbra zone to describe an area with signs of energy failure and cell membrane degradation, which has a capacity to regain a normal metabolic pattern but also an increased vulnerability to secondary insults.
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