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Angiographic evaluation of middle cerebral artery reperfusion caused by platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor complex antagonist murine 7E3 F(ab')2 in a model of focal cerebral ischemia in rats
Authors: Yang Yi , Li Qiu , Nakada Marian T. , Yang Tao , Shuaib Ashfaq 
Published: May 2009

Object. Antagonists of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GPIIb/IIIa) receptor complex are currently used for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes. The platelet GPIIb/IIIa mediates platelet aggregation, and blocking this receptor complex can reduce or prevent arterial thrombosis. To study the recanalization efficacy of a GPIIb/IIIa antagonist in treating cerebral ischemia, we investigated the therapeutic effects of murine 7E3 F(ab′)2 in a focal embolic cerebral ischemia model in rats.
Methods. Focal cerebral ischemia was produced by introducing an autologous thrombus into the right side of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). Thirty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into three groups of 10 rats each: control, 7E3 F(ab′)2 administered 1 hour postischemia, and 7E3 F(ab′)2 administered 3 hours postischemia. Animals in the therapeutic groups received intravenous infusion of 6 mg/kg 7E3 F(ab′)2 at 1 or 3 hours following cerebral embolization. Brain infarct volume, neurobehavioral scores, duration of bleeding, and findings on angiograms of the MCA (before and after infusion) were assessed in all animals.
Angiographic evaluation revealed full MCA recanalization in three of 10 animals in each 7E3 F(ab′)2 treatment group. Animals in these groups exhibited a significant reduction in infarct volume when compared with animals in the control group: 1) infarct volume 1 hour postischemia, 22 ± 13.9% (p = 0.005); 2) infarct volume 3 hours postischemia, 22.1 ± 14.8% (p = 0.008); and 3) infarct volume in control animals, 42.4 ± 16%. Postischemia treatment with 7E3 F(ab′)2 also improved the animal's neurobehavioral performance. The duration of bleeding significantly increased by more than two times, but there was no associated increase in intracerebral hemorrhage in any group.
Conclusions. On the basis of their findings, the authors conclude that murine 7E3 F(ab′)2 is a potent and safe antiplatelet agent in this experimental focal embolic cerebral ischemia model. Neuronal lesions were significantly reduced when the treatment was delayed up to 3 hours.
Reduced tumorigenicity of rat glioma cells in the brain when mediated by hygromycin phosphotransferase
Authors: Hormigo Adília , Friedlander David R. , Brittis Perry A. , Zagzag David , Grumet Martin 
Published: May 2009

Object. A variant of C6 glioma cells, C6R-G/H cells express hygromycin phosphotransferase (HPT) and appear to have reduced tumorigenicity in the embryonic brain. The goal of this study was to investigate their reduced capacity to generate tumors in the adult rat brain.
Methods. Cell lines were implanted into rat brains and tumorigenesis was evaluated. After 3 weeks, all rats with C6 cells showed signs of neurological disease, whereas rats with C6R-G/H cells did not and were either killed then or allowed to survive until later. Histological studies were performed to analyze tumor size, malignancy, angiogenesis, and cell proliferation. Cells isolated from rat brain tumors were analyzed for mutation to HPT by testing their sensitivity to hygromycin.
Conclusions. The results indicate that HPT suppresses tumor formation. Three weeks after implantation, only 44% of animals implanted with C6R-G/H cells developed tumors, whereas all animals that received C6 glioma cells developed high-grade gliomas. The C6R-G/H cells filled a 20-fold smaller maximal cross-sectional area than the C6 cells, and exhibited less malignant characteristics, including reduced angiogenesis, mitosis, and cell proliferation. Similar results were obtained in the brain of nude rats, indicating that the immune system did not play a significant role in suppressing tumor growth. The combination of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and HPT was more effective in suppressing tumorigenesis than either plasmid by itself, indicating that the GFP may protect against inactivation of the HPT. Interestingly, hygromycin resistance was lost in tumor cells that were recovered from a group of animals in which C6R-G/H cells formed tumors, confirming the correlation of HPT with reduced tumorigenicity.
Artificial elevation of brain tissue glycerol by administration of a glycerol-containing agent
Authors: König Kathrin , Rickels Eckhard , Heissler Hans E. , Zumkeller Matthias , Samii Madjid 
Published: May 2009

✓ In recent years the development of secondary brain damage and derangement of neurochemical parameters after severe head injury has been monitored using microdialysis. Provided the blood—brain barrier is intact, glycerol is regarded as a potential marker for membrane phospholipid degradation. The authors report a case in which marked elevation of interstitial glycerol was induced after exogenous administration of a glycerol-containing agent.
A 25-year-old man was injured in a motorcycle accident and was admitted to the authors' institution with a unilateral dilated and fixed pupil and a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3. Computerized tomography scans revealed a large subdural hematoma on the left side, subsequent midline shift, and generalized edema. Emergency craniotomy was performed for evacuation of the hematoma. The patient was prepared for multisensory monitoring and a microdialysis catheter was inserted into his left frontal lobe. After a routine enema containing 85% glycerol had been administered, the authors measured a marked increase in glycerol in the dialysate. This occurred while the patient was in as stable a condition as could be expected given the circumstances. The increase in interstitial glycerol in the injured tissue was most likely due to an impaired blood—brain barrier. Thus, the interstitial glycerol concentration had been corrupted by exogenous glycerol, and the marker properties of glycerol in this case became questionable. Consequently, administration of glycerol, which is frequently found in various infusions and emulsions, can promote secondary brain damage by adversely shifting osmotic gradients.
Pathological mechanism and three-dimensional structure of cerebral dissecting aneurysms
Authors: Mizutani Tohru , Kojima Hideaki , Asamoto Shunji , Miki Yoshimasa 
Published: May 2009

Object. The goal of this study was to investigate the pathological mechanism and precise three-dimensional (3D) structure of cerebral dissecting aneurysms in association with their clinical course.
Methods. Nine aneurysm specimens were excised from eight patients. Of the nine aneurysms, seven arose from the vertebral artery, one from the anterior cerebral artery, and one from the superior cerebellar artery. Eight aneurysms were accompanied with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and one with infarction. Seven aneurysms were obtained at autopsy and two were obtained during surgery (trapping and bypass). All nine aneurysms were sectioned into serial axial slices measuring 5 to 10 µm in thickness. Taking each slice as an element, we reconstructed the 3D structure of the aneurysm.
The true lumen communicated with a pseudolumen through the disrupted portion of the internal elastic lamina (IEL) in all nine aneurysms. The ruptured portion was located just above the disrupted IEL. Two aneurysms had an exit back into the true lumen, but the other seven had no such exit.
Conclusions. The primary mechanism by which a cerebral dissecting aneurysm is created is by the sudden disruption of the IEL. The plane of dissection extends through the media. The majority of aneurysms have one entrance into the pseudolumen (entry-only type). This type is associated with an unstable clinical course. Some cerebral dissecting aneurysms have both an entrance and exit (entry—exit type). This type of aneurysm occasionally contains a constant flow of blood through the pseudolumen and is clinically more stable than entry-only aneurysms.
Three-dimensional computerized tomography angiography—guided surgery of acutely ruptured cerebral anuerysms
Authors: Matsumoto Masato , Sato Masanori , Nakano Masayuki , Endo Yuji , Watanabe Youichi , Sasaki Tatsuya , Suzuki Kyouichi , Kodama Namio 
Published: May 2009

Object. The aim of this study was to assess whether aneurysm surgery can be performed in patients with ruptured cerebral aneurysms by using three-dimensional computerized tomography (3D-CT) angiography alone, without conventional catheter angiography.
Methods. In a previous study, 60 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from ruptured aneurysms were prospectively evaluated using both 3D-CT and conventional angiography, which resulted in a 100% accuracy for 3D-CT angiography in the diagnosis of ruptured aneurysms, and a 96% accuracy in the identification of associated unruptured aneurysms. The results led the authors to consider replacing conventional angiography with 3D-CT angiography for use in diagnosing ruptured aneurysms, and to perform surgery aided by 3D-CT angiography alone without conventional angiography. Based on the results, 100 consecutive patients with SAH who had undergone surgery in the acute stage based on 3D-CT angiography findings have been studied since December 1996. One hundred ruptured aneurysms, including 41 associated unruptured lesions, were detected using 3D-CT angiography. In seven of 100 ruptured aneurysms, which included four dissecting vertebral artery aneurysms, two basilar artery (BA) tip aneurysms, and one BA—superior cerebellar artery aneurysm, 3D-CT angiography was followed by conventional angiography to acquire diagnostic confirmation or information about the vein of Labbé, which was needed to guide the surgical approach for BA tip aneurysms. All of the ruptured aneurysms were confirmed at surgery and treated successfully. Ninety-three patients who underwent operation with the aid of 3D-CT angiography only had no complications related to the lack of information gathered by conventional angiography. The 3D-CT angiography studies provided the authors with the aneurysm location as well as surgically important information on the configuration of its sac and neck, the presence of calcification in the aneurysm wall, and its relationship to the adjacent vessels and bone structures.
Conclusions The authors believe that 3D-CT angiography can replace conventional angiography in the diagnosis of ruptured aneurysms and that surgery can be performed in almost all acutely ruptured aneurysms by using only 3D-CT angiography without conventional angiography.
Neuroprotective and behavioral efficacy of nerve growth factor—transfected hippocampal progenitor cell transplants after experimental traumatic brain injury
Authors: Philips Matthew F. , Mattiasson Gustav , Wieloch Tadeusz , Björklund Anders , Johansson Barbro B. , Tomasevic Gregor , Martínez-Serrano Alberto , Lenzlinger Philipp M. , Sinson Grant , Grady M. Sean , McIntosh Tracy K. 
Published: May 2009

Object. Immortalized neural progenitor cells derived from embryonic rat hippocampus (HiB5), were transduced ex vivo with the gene for mouse nerve growth factor (NGF) to secrete NGF (NGF-HiB5) at 2 ng/hr/105 cells in culture.
Methods. Fifty-nine male Wistar rats weighing 300 to 370 g each were anesthetized with 60 mg/kg sodium pentobarbital and subjected to lateral fluid-percussion brain injury of moderate severity (2.3–2.4 atm, 34 rats) or sham injury (25 rats). At 24 hours postinjury, 2 µl (150,000 cells/µl) of [3H]thymidine-labeled NGF-HiB5 cells were transplanted stereotactically into three individual sites in the cerebral cortex adjacent to the injury site (14 rats). Separate groups of brain-injured rats received nontransfected (naive [n])-HiB5 cells (12 animals) or cell suspension vehicle (eight animals). One week postinjury, animals underwent neurological evaluation for motor function and cognition (Morris water maze) and were killed for histological, autoradiographic, and immunocytochemical analysis. Viable HiB5 cell grafts were identified in all animals, together with reactive microglia and macrophages located throughout the periinjured parenchyma and grafts (OX-42 immunohistochemistry). Brain-injured animals transplanted with either NGF-HiB5 or n-HiB5 cells displayed significantly improved neuromotor function (p < 0.05) and spatial learning behavior (p < 0.005) compared with brain-injured animals receiving microinjections of vehicle alone. A significant reduction in hippocampal CA3 cell death was observed in brain-injured animals receiving transplants of NGF-HiB5 cells compared with those receiving n-HiB5 cells or vehicle (p < 0.025).
Conclusions. This study demonstrates that immortalized neural stem cells that have been retrovirally transduced to produce NGF can markedly improve cognitive and neuromotor function and rescue hippocampal CA3 neurons when transplanted into the injured brain during the acute posttraumatic period.
Fatal progression of posttraumatic dural arteriovenous fistulas refractory to multimodal therapy
Authors: Friedman Jonathan A. , Meyer Fredric B. , Nichols Douglas A. , Coffey Robert J. , Hopkins L. Nelson , Maher Cormac O. , Meissner Irene D. , Pollock Bruce E. 
Published: May 2009

✓ The authors report the case of a man who suffered from progressive, disseminated posttraumatic dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) resulting in death, despite aggressive endovascular, surgical, and radiosurgical treatment.
This 31-year-old man was struck on the head while playing basketball. Two weeks later a soft, pulsatile mass developed at his vertex, and the man began to experience pulsatile tinnitus and progressive headaches. Magnetic resonance imaging and subsequent angiography revealed multiple AVFs in the scalp, calvaria, and dura, with drainage into the superior sagittal sinus. The patient was treated initially with transarterial embolization in five stages, followed by vertex craniotomy and surgical resection of the AVFs. However, multiple additional DAVFs developed over the bilateral convexities, the falx, and the tentorium. Subsequent treatment entailed 15 stages of transarterial embolization; seven stages of transvenous embolization, including complete occlusion of the sagittal sinus and partial occlusion of the straight sinus; three stages of stereotactic radiosurgery; and a second craniotomy with aggressive disconnection of the DAVFs. Unfortunately, the fistulas continued to progress, resulting in diffuse venous hypertension, multiple intracerebral hemorrhages in both hemispheres, and, ultimately, death nearly 5 years after the initial trauma.
Endovascular, surgical, and radiosurgical treatments are successful in curing most patients with DAVFs. The failure of multimodal therapy and the fulminant progression and disseminated nature of this patient's disease are unique.
Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms by using Guglielmi detachable coils in awake patients: safety and feasibility
Authors: Qureshi Adnan I. , Suri M. Fareed K. , Khan Jehanzeb , Kim Stanley H. , Fessler Richard D. , Ringer Andrew J. , Guterman Lee R. , Hopkins L. Nelson 
Published: May 2009

Object. Embolization of intracranial aneurysms performed using Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs) is performed with the patient in a state of general anesthesia at most centers. Such an approach does not allow intraprocedural evaluation of the patient's neurological status and carries additional risks associated with general anesthesia and mechanical ventilation. At the authors' institution, GDC embolization of intracranial aneurysms is performed in awake patients after administration of sedative and analgesic agents (midazolam, fentanyl, morphine, and/or hydromorphone). To determine the feasibility and safety of this approach, the authors have retrospectively reviewed their clinical experience.
Methods. The authors reviewed the medical records of all patients in whom GDC embolization for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms was undertaken between February 1, 1990 and October 31, 1999. Clinical presentation, medical comorbidities, anesthetic agents used, intraprocedural complications, and final procedural outcome were recorded for each patient.
Guglielmi detachable coil embolization was attempted in the awake patient in 150 procedures. Among 92 procedures for unruptured aneurysms, 75 (82%) were completed without complications. Four procedures were completed with complications. Of the 92 procedures, 13 were aborted due to patient uncooperativeness (one patient), complications (three patients), morphological characteristics of the aneurysm or surrounding vessels that made embolization technically difficult (eight patients), or vasospasm (one patient). Among 58 procedures for ruptured aneurysms, the procedure was completed without complication in 48 cases (83%). The procedure was completed with complications in five cases and two patients required induction of general anesthesia during the procedure. Five procedures were aborted because morphological characteristics of the aneurysm or surrounding vessels made embolization technically difficult (two patients) or because of aneurysm rupture (two patients) or the appearance of a transient neurological deficit (one patient).
Conclusions. Embolization of intracranial aneurysms performed using GDCs in the awake patient appears to be safe and feasible and allows intraprocedural evaluation of the patient. Potential advantages, including decreased cardiopulmonary morbidity rates, shorter hospital stay, and lower hospital costs, still require confirmation by a direct comparison with other anesthetic procedures.
Results of combined stereotactic radiosurgery and transarterial embolization for dural arteriovenous fistulas of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses
Authors: Friedman Jonathan A. , Pollock Bruce E. , Nichols Douglas A. , Gorman Deborah A. , Foote Robert L. , Stafford Scott L. 
Published: May 2009

Object. Most dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses do not have angiographically demonstrated features associated with intracranial hemorrhage and, therefore, may be treated nonsurgically. The authors report their experience using a staged combination of radiosurgery and transarterial embolization for treating DAVFs involving the transverse and sigmoid sinuses.
Methods. Between 1991 and 1998, 25 patients with DAVFs of the transverse and/or sigmoid sinuses were treated using stereotactic radiosurgery; 22 of these patients also underwent transarterial embolization. Two patients were lost to follow-up review. Clinical data, angiographic findings, and follow-up records for the remaining 23 patients were collected prospectively. The mean duration of clinical follow up after radiosurgery was 50 months (range 20–99 months).
The 18 women and five men included in this series had a mean age of 57 years (range 33–79 years). Twenty-two (96%) of 23 patients presented with pulsatile tinnitus as the primary symptom; two patients had experienced an earlier intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Cognard classifications of the DAVFs included the following: I in 12 patients (52%), IIa in seven patients (30%), and III in four patients (17%). After treatment, symptoms resolved (20 patients) or improved significantly (two patients) in 96% of patients. One patient was clinically unchanged. No patient sustained an ICH or irradiation-related complication during the follow-up period. Seventeen patients underwent follow-up angiographic studies at a mean of 21 months after radiosurgery (range 11–38 months). Total or near-total obliteration (> 90%) was seen in 11 patients (65%), and more than a 50% reduction in six patients (35%). Two patients experienced recurrent tinnitus and underwent repeated radiosurgery and embolization at 21 and 38 months, respectively, after the first procedure.
Conclusions. A staged combination of radiosurgery and transarterial embolization provides excellent symptom relief and a good angiographically verified cure rate for patients harboring low-risk DAVFs of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses. This combined approach is a safe and effective treatment strategy for patients without angiographically determined risk factors for hemorrhage and for elderly patients with significant comorbidities.
Radiation necrosis following gamma knife surgery: a case-controlled comparison of treatment parameters and long-term clinical follow up
Authors: Chin Lawrence S. , Ma Lijun , DiBiase Steven 
Published: May 2009

Object. Radiation necrosis is the only significant complication of gamma knife surgery (GKS). The authors studied treatment plan parameters in patients who had radiation necrosis to determine if risk factors for necrosis could be identified.
Methods. Between September 1994 and December 1998, 286 patients were treated with GKS by the senior author. Of the 243 patients who were suitable for analysis, 17 developed radiation necrosis and were prospectively followed. Concurrently, 17 patients without necrosis were randomly selected as case controls on the basis of histological findings in their lesions. Integral dose—volume histograms (DVHs) were calculated and dose—volume treatment parameters were determined. A comparison was made with both the established Kjellberg and Flickinger isonecrosis risk lines. Clinical outcome was assessed according to time to resolution of symptoms and return to normal radiographic appearance.
Conclusions. Treatment plan variables associated with the risk of necrosis were increased tumor volume (TV) integral dose, increased TV, and increased 10-Gy volume. Other risk factors included repeated radiosurgery to the same lesion and glioma histological findings. The Kjellberg 1% risk line predicted a 5% risk of radiation necrosis and the Flickinger 3% risk line predicted a 3% risk. The median time to development of necrosis was 4 months, and symptomatic and radiographic recovery times were 7.5 and 10.5 months, respectively. The median survival time in patients with necrosis was 30 months. The authors recommend prospective TV determination and DVH calculation for all radiosurgical treatments and the avoidance of repeated radiosurgical treatments to the same lesion when possible.
A 20-year review of percutaneous balloon compression of the trigeminal ganglion
Authors: Skirving David J. , Dan Noel G. 
Published: May 2009

Object. The aim of this study was to investigate outcomes and complication rates associated with percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) of the trigeminal ganglion over a long follow-up period.
Methods. This retrospective review was conducted in 496 patients with typical symptoms of unilateral trigeminal neuralgia who underwent 531 PBCs of the trigeminal ganglion between 1980 and 1999. The mean length of follow up was 10.7 years. The treatment used was a modification of that first described by Mullan and Lichtor in 1983.
There were nine technical failures. Of the 522 successful procedures, prompt pain relief ensued in all patients except one. Recurrence of pain was found in 95 patients (19.2%) within 5 years and in 158 patients (31.9%) over the entire study period. Symptomatic dysesthesias occurred in 19 patients (3.8%), but corneal anesthesia and anesthesia dolorosa did not.
Conclusions. In this review the authors present data on the largest cohort of patients with the longest follow up for this procedure in the current literature. The balance between the recurrence rate and troublesome sensory complications achieved in this series is favorable when compared with previously published studies on outcomes of PBC and the two alternative percutaneous methods, radiofrequency thermocoagulation and glycerol rhizolysis. The PBC procedure has additional advantages in that it is relatively straightforward and quick, and can be performed during a brief period of general anesthesia with no discomfort to the patient. This makes it an attractive first choice in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.