Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy

It has astonished neuroscientists since the advent of decompressive craniectomy as to why a seemingly successfully achieved goal of reduction in intracranial pressure (ICP), by removing a portion of the cranial vault and the resultant intracranial volume augmentation, fails to give the desired benef...

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Main Authors: Sudip Kumar Sengupta, Harjinder Singh Bhatoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-10-01
Series:Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1697727
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description It has astonished neuroscientists since the advent of decompressive craniectomy as to why a seemingly successfully achieved goal of reduction in intracranial pressure (ICP), by removing a portion of the cranial vault and the resultant intracranial volume augmentation, fails to give the desired beneficial clinical outcome in every case and in fact, at times, proves to be deleterious in some conditions with a shared problem of refractory raised ICP. The authors propose a hypothesis based on the understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the brain that can explain the fallacy.
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Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
decompressive craniectomy
cortical pressure injury
hypothesis
title Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
title_full Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
title_fullStr Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
title_full_unstemmed Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
title_short Cortical Pressure Injury: A Hypothesis to Explain the Incongruity of Clinical and Radiologic Improvement in Decompressive Craniectomy
title_sort cortical pressure injury a hypothesis to explain the incongruity of clinical and radiologic improvement in decompressive craniectomy
topic decompressive craniectomy
cortical pressure injury
hypothesis
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