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  • Physiology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Dynamic cerebral autoregulation (DCA) is crucial for maintaining stable cerebral blood flow.
  • Reproducibility of DCA parameters is limited, hindering clinical application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the influence of various analytical methods on the reproducibility of DCA parameters.
  • To identify which DCA metrics demonstrate reliable reproducibility in healthy subjects.

Main Methods:

  • An international, multi-center study involving 14 centers and 75 healthy subjects.
  • Analysis of 5-minute spontaneous blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity fluctuations.
  • Grouping DCA methods into transfer function analysis (TFA), autoregulation index (ARI), and correlation coefficient categories.

Main Results:

  • Only TFA gain in the low frequency (LF) band exhibited good reproducibility (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient [ICC] >0.6) in about half of estimates.
  • Other DCA metrics, including ARI and correlation methods, showed poor reproducibility (mean ICCs: ARI-like 0.30 ± 0.12, correlation 0.24 ± 0.23).
  • Reproducibility for TFA-like and ARI-like methods was lower than for surrogate data (p < 0.05).

Conclusions:

  • Most DCA parameters lack sufficient reproducibility for reliable clinical use.
  • Physiological variability or non-stationarity are likely primary contributors to the poor reproducibility of DCA parameters.
  • Transfer function analysis gain in the LF band represents a more reproducible measure of DCA.