Scientific article
English

Reliability of the blood flow velocity pulsatility index for assessment of intracranial and cerebral perfusion pressures in head-injured patients

Published inNeurosurgery, vol. 71, no. 4, p. 853-861
Publication date2012
Abstract

It has been postulated that the Gosling pulsatility index (PI) assessed with transcranial Doppler (TCD) has a diagnostic value for noninvasive estimation of intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP).

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Area Under Curve
  • Blood Flow Velocity/physiology
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation/physiology
  • Cohort Studies
  • Craniocerebral Trauma/diagnosis/diagnostic imaging/physiopathology
  • Databases, Factual/statistics & numerical data
  • Female
  • Glasgow Coma Scale
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Pressure/physiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulsatile Flow
  • ROC Curve
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
ZWEIFEL, Christian et al. Reliability of the blood flow velocity pulsatility index for assessment of intracranial and cerebral perfusion pressures in head-injured patients. In: Neurosurgery, 2012, vol. 71, n° 4, p. 853–861. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182675b42
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