[Treatment of cerebral oedema]
1Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, CHU d'Angers, 4, rue Larrey, 49033 cedex, Angers, France.
Abstract:
Progress in brain imaging, monitoring and physiopathology allows the identification of brain oedema from brain swelling, determination of its interstitial or intracellular nature, as well as blood-brain barrier permeability and the evaluation of the impact on cerebral haemodynamic. Common treatment of all types of cerebral oedema is based on prevention of self-sustained disorders due to increased intracranial pressure resulting in ischemic cerebral oedema. The specific treatment of each type of cerebral oedema is reviewed. Optimization of conventional anti-oedematous strategies is based on the precise determination of the nature of the cerebral oedema and of the blood-brain barrier status.
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