hyperventilation/atrophy

Although heart rate (HR) responses to hyperventilation (HV) have been used as a cardiovascular autonomic function test, autonomic involvement during HV remains uncertain. To clarify the relationship between autonomic activity and cardiovascular changes during HV, we compared cardiovascular responses

Patients with infantile spinal muscular atrophy rarely decide to have their own children especially if there is major respiratory impairment. We studied prospectively the pregnancy course and outcome of a 34-year-old woman with spinal muscular atrophy type II who delivered a healthy boy. Pregnancy

In case of cranial trauma, early respiratory troubles either of central or peripheral origin often accelerate the deterioration of the neurological situation. The different values of PCO2, PO2, pH and alcaline reserve measured on samples of CSF in comatose patients prove the central acidosis related

We present the case reports of two patients with severe traumatic brain injury who, in the absence of external stimuli, developed episodes of acute elevation of intracranial pressure (plateau waves) associated with jugular bulb oxyhemoglobin (SjO2) desaturation, severe reduction of cerebral tissue

Hyperventilation (HV) is routinely used in the management of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) in severe head injury. However, this treatment continues to be controversial because it has been reported that long-lasting reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF) due to profound sustained hypocapnia may

The relationship between sympathetic skin response (SSR) and cardiovascular autonomic function tests (CVTs) was investigated in 15 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), 15 patients with clinical evidence of multiple system atrophy (MSA) with autonomic failure, and in 15 healthy control

The effects of a standard 3 minutes' hyperventilation on the full-field pattern-reversal visual evoked potential (VEP) were studied in 33 normal subjects, 30 definite multiple sclerosis patients and in twenty-five patients with abnormal VEPs due to either tumourous compression of the anterior visual

Standardized hyperventilation in young subjects induces changes in the EEG, a decrease in the velocity of the cerebral blood flow and a decline in cognitive performance, which are comparable to those occurring in patients with cerebral ischaemia. The anti-ischaemic properties of aniracetam and 3-OH

Hyperventilation is commonly used as a constituent of antiedematous therapy after global cerebral ischemia. The effect of hyperventilation on brain functions, however, is complex, and a number of mechanisms involved remains unclear. In this study, we attempted to determine whether postischemic

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy combined with motor neuron degeneration caused by mutations in the SMN 1 gene locus (5q11.2-13.2). Rett syndrome (RS) is an X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental

OBJECTIVE Mild hypercapnia with hyperventilation has been reported to significantly decrease recovery time from inhaled anesthesia in young and middle-aged patients. However, its efficacy has not yet been clarified in elderly patients, although delayed emergence can deteriorate their quality of

It has been shown previously that hyperventilation modifies the features of the nystagmus in cerebellar patients (Walker and Zee, 1999). It has been hypothesized that hyperventilation influences the oculomotor control through a metabolic effect on cerebellar calcium channels, which play a critical

The metabolic brain acidosis after trauma has been thought to be harmful and to contribute to neurological deterioration. Amelioration of the brain acidosis either by systemic buffering agents or by hyperventilation has been proposed as a method of treatment. The objective of this study was to