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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
Lower body positive pressure application with an antigravity suit in acute carotid occlusion
Karine Berthet1, Anne Claire Lukaszewicz, Marie-Germaine Bousser
1Department of Neurology, Lariboisière Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and University Paris 7 Diderot, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France.
Abstract:
The challenge in acute stroke is still to reperfuse as early as possible the ischemic territory. Since fibrinolytic therapies have a limited window with potential risk of bleeding, having a nonpharmacologic mean to recruit vessels in area surrounding necrosis might be useful. We propose here to use antigravity suit inflated at "venous" pressure levels to shift blood towards thoracic and brain territories. We report two cases of spectacular clinical recovery after acute carotid occlusion.
