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Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow
Published on: March 15, 2021
Transcranial Doppler sonography as diagnostic method
1Neurological Clinic of University Hospital in Sarajevo.
Insights
Cerebrovascular disease (CVB) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, necessitating primary prevention. Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) offers a reliable, non-invasive method for early detection of CVB risk factors and complications.
Area of Science:
- Neurology
- Vascular Medicine
- Preventive Cardiology
Background:
- Cerebrovascular disease (CVB) is a significant global health burden, ranking as the third leading cause of mortality and a primary cause of disability and dementia.
- Developing countries, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe, face increasing incidence and prevalence of CVB.
- The age of onset for CVB is decreasing, with a substantial proportion of affected individuals now in the 46-59 age group.
Purpose of the Study:
- To emphasize the critical need for primary prophylaxis of cerebrovascular disease.
- To highlight the importance of early detection and management of risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, stress, and physical inactivity.
- To introduce Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) as a valuable non-invasive tool for assessing hemodynamic disorders and vascular complications.
Main Methods:
- Review of current epidemiological data on cerebrovascular disease prevalence and mortality.
- Discussion of primary prevention strategies focusing on risk factor modification.
- Introduction of Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) as a diagnostic method for evaluating cerebral hemodynamics.
Main Results:
- Cerebrovascular disease (CVB) remains a major cause of mortality and disability globally, with a concerning trend towards younger age groups.
- Early identification and intervention for risk factors are crucial for primary CVB prevention.
- Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) is presented as a patient-friendly, reliable, precise, and cost-effective non-invasive diagnostic technique.
Conclusions:
- Primary prevention of cerebrovascular disease is urgently required due to its high mortality and disability rates.
- Early detection of risk factors and vascular changes is paramount in combating CVB.
- Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD) is a highly suitable method for the non-invasive assessment of cerebrovascular health and hemodynamic status.
Abstract:
Having in mind the fact that cerebrovascular disease (CVB) takes today in medicine, in spite of diagnostic and therapeutic modernisation, the third place of mortality causes in the world (behind cordial and malignant diseases, but in front of depressions), and the second place of invalidity cause (right after trauma) as well as the second place of dementia cause (after Alzheimer disease), it urges primary prophylaxis. Developing countries, but before all countries of East and Middle Europe, where is our country, are highly risked areas where CV disease has trend of incidence and total frequency increase. In the neighbouring Croatia today CV disease is at the first place of mortality causes. In the world today 5 million people annually suffer CV disease, in Europe about 700.000, but frequency of suffering on Balkan is about 5 prom. Age of CV disease effecting unfortunately moved towards young age, and today 49% of effected by CV disease are of 46 to 59 years of age. Early detection and treatment of risk factors (before hypertension, smoking, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia, stress and physical non-activities) are the first aspect of CV disease prophylaxis. Together with this aspect of primary prophylaxis is early detection of complications of mentioned risk factors on the walls of blood vessels, before all changing in sense of arteriosclerosis, with consequence of disorder of cerebral haemodynamics. With that objective - verification of circulator and total haemodynamic disorders, there is obvious disclose of non-invasive diagnostic methods, and one of them is Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCD). TCD is method comfortable for patient, reliable and rather precise, dynamic, and can be repeated several times, without side effects and in comparison with others rather cheap.
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