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Vanelderen F, Bruyninckx D, Depreitere B. Is age or cardiovascular comorbidity the main predictor of reduced cerebrovascular pressure reactivity in older patients with traumatic brain injury? BRAIN & SPINE 2024; 4:102799. [PMID: 38681173 PMCID: PMC11052909 DOI: 10.1016/j.bas.2024.102799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2024] [Revised: 03/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Introduction The Pressure Reactivity index (PRx) has been proposed as a surrogate measure for cerebrovascular autoregulation (CA) and it has been described that older age is associated with worse PRx. The etiology for this reduced capacity remains unknown. Research question To investigate the relation between age and PRx in a cohort of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) while correcting for cardiovascular comorbidities. Material and methods This is a retrospective analysis on prospectively collected data in 151 consecutive TBI patients between 2013 and 2023. PRx was averaged over 5 monitoring days and correlated with demographic, patient and injury data. A multiple regression analysis was performed with PRx as dependent variable and cardiovascular comorbidities, age, Glasgow motor score and pupillary reaction as independent variables. A similar model was constructed without age and compared. Results Age, sex, thromboembolic history, arterial hypertension, Glasgow motor score and pupillary reaction significantly correlated with PRx in univariate analysis. In multivariate analysis, age had a significant worsening effect on PRx (p = 0.01), while the cardiovascular risk factors and injury severity had no impact. The comparison of the models with and without age yielded a significant difference (p = 0.01), underpinning the independent effect of age. Discussion and conclusion In the present cohort study in TBI patients it was found that older age independently impaired cerebrovascular pressure reactivity regardless of cardiovascular comorbidity. Pathophysiology of TBI and physiology of ageing seem to line up to synergistically produce a negative effect on brain perfusion.
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Kalimon OJ, Vekaria HJ, Velmurugan GV, Hubbard WB, Sullivan PG. Characterizing Sex Differences in Mitochondrial Dysfunction After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice. Neurotrauma Rep 2023; 4:627-642. [PMID: 37752924 PMCID: PMC10518693 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2023.0046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by an impact or penetrating injury to the head resulting in abnormal brain function. Mitochondrial dysfunction is an important hallmark of TBI and has been thoroughly studied in male rodent models of brain injury, but relatively little is known about these outcomes in females. These studies were designed to examine sex as a biological variable for mitochondria-related outcomes after the severe controlled cortical impact (CCI) mouse model of TBI. Synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondria were isolated from the sham- or CCI-injured cortex as well as the hippocampus ipsilateral to the craniotomy 3, 12, 24, or 48 h post-surgery, and then bioenergetics were measured. Subtle variations were observed in the timeline of mitochondrial dysfunction between sexes. Non-synaptic cortical mitochondria from injured females showed early impairment at 12 h post-CCI compared to mitochondria from injured males at 24 h post-CCI. Contrastingly, in the synaptic fraction, mitochondria from injured males showed early impairment at 12 h post-CCI, whereas mitochondria from injured females showed impairment at 24 h post-CCI. Based on bioenergetic impairments at 24 h post-CCI, synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondrial calcium loading was also measured at this time point. Consistent with bioenergetic data at 24 h, non-synaptic mitochondria from injured males had increased calcium loading compared to uninjured control, but this effect was not observed in females. Finally, histological assessment of cortical tissue sparing in each sex was measured at 7 days post-injury. There was a lack of sex-based differences in cortical tissue sparing after severe CCI. Overall, there were some subtle sex differences in mitochondrial outcomes after CCI, but these findings were not statistically significant. This study highlights the importance of utilizing both sexes when measuring mitochondrial function after severe CCI.
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- Olivia J. Kalimon
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lexington VA Healthcare System, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lexington VA Healthcare System, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lexington VA Healthcare System, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Lexington VA Healthcare System, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Tarudji AW, Miller HA, Curtis ET, Porter CL, Madsen GL, Kievit FM. Sex-based differences of antioxidant enzyme nanoparticle effects following traumatic brain injury. J Control Release 2023; 355:149-159. [PMID: 36720285 PMCID: PMC10006352 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2023.01.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), reactive oxygen species (ROS) are released in excess, causing oxidative stress, carbonyl stress, and cell death, which induce the additional release of ROS. The limited accumulation and retention of small molecule antioxidants commonly used in clinical trials likely limit the target engagement and therapeutic effect in reducing secondary injury. Small molecule drugs also need to be administered every several hours to maintain bioavailability in the brain. Therefore, there is a need for a burst and sustained release system with high accumulation and retention in the injured brain. Here, we utilized Pro-NP™ with a size of 200 nm, which was designed to have a burst and sustained release of encapsulated antioxidants, Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and catalase (CAT), to scavenge ROS for >24 h post-injection. Here, we utilized a controlled cortical impact (CCI) mouse model of TBI and found the accumulation of Pro-NP™ in the brain lesion was highest when injected immediately after injury, with a reduction in the accumulation with delayed administration of 1 h or more post-injury. Pro-NP™ treatment with 9000 U/kg SOD1 and 9800 U/kg CAT gave the highest reduction in ROS in both male and female mice. We found that Pro-NP™ treatment was effective in reducing carbonyl stress and necrosis at 1 d post-injury in the contralateral hemisphere in male mice, which showed a similar trend to untreated female mice. Although we found that male and female mice similarly benefit from Pro-NP™ treatment in reducing ROS levels 4 h post-injury, Pro-NP™ treatment did not significantly affect markers of post-traumatic oxidative stress in female CCI mice as compared to male CCI mice. These findings of protection by Pro-NP™ in male mice did not extend to 7 d post-injury, which suggests subsequent treatments with Pro-NP™ may be needed to afford protection into the chronic phase of injury. Overall, these different treatment effects of Pro-NP™ between male and female mice suggest important sex-based differences in response to antioxidant nanoparticle delivery and that there may exist a maximal benefit from local antioxidant activity in injured brain.
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- Aria W Tarudji
- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 262 Morrison Center, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 262 Morrison Center, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA; ProTransit Nanotherapy, 16514L St., Omaha, NE 68135, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 262 Morrison Center, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- ProTransit Nanotherapy, 16514L St., Omaha, NE 68135, USA
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- Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 262 Morrison Center, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA.
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Svedung Wettervik T, Lewén A, Enblad P. Fine tuning of neurointensive care in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: From one-size-fits-all towards individualized care. World Neurosurg X 2023; 18:100160. [PMID: 36818739 PMCID: PMC9932216 DOI: 10.1016/j.wnsx.2023.100160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is a severe type of acute brain injury with high mortality and burden of neurological sequelae. General management aims at early aneurysm occlusion to prevent re-bleeding, cerebrospinal fluid drainage in case of increased intracranial pressure and/or acute hydrocephalus, and cerebral blood flow augmentation in case of delayed ischemic neurological deficits. In addition, the brain is vulnerable to physiological insults in the acute phase and neurointensive care (NIC) is important to optimize the cerebral physiology to avoid secondary brain injury. NIC has led to significantly better neurological recovery following aSAH, but there is still great room for further improvements. First, current aSAH NIC management protocols are to some extent extrapolated from those in traumatic brain injury, notwithstanding important disease-specific differences. Second, the same NIC management protocols are applied to all aSAH patients, despite great patient heterogeneity. Third, the main variables of interest, intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure, may be too superficial to fully detect and treat several important pathomechanisms. Fourth, there is a lack of understanding not only regarding physiological, but also cellular and molecular pathomechanisms and there is a need to better monitor and treat these processes. This narrative review aims to discuss current state-of-the-art NIC of aSAH, knowledge gaps in the field, and future directions towards a more individualized care in the future.
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- Teodor Svedung Wettervik
- Corresponding author. Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Neurosurgery, Uppsala University, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Zeiler FA, Aries M, Czosnyka M, Smieleweski P. Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury: An Overview of Recent Advances in Personalized Medicine. J Neurotrauma 2022; 39:1477-1494. [PMID: 35793108 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2022.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Impaired cerebral autoregulation (CA) in moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been identified as a strong associate with poor long-term outcomes, with recent data highlighting its dominance over cerebral physiologic dysfunction seen in the acute phase post injury. With advances in bedside continuous cerebral physiologic signal processing, continuously derived metrics of CA capacity have been described over the past two decades, leading to improvements in cerebral physiologic insult detection and development of novel personalized approaches to TBI care in the intensive care unit (ICU). This narrative review focuses on highlighting the concept of continuous CA monitoring and consequences of impairment in moderate/severe TBI. Further, we provide a comprehensive description and overview of the main personalized cerebral physiologic targets, based on CA monitoring, that are emerging as strong associates with patient outcomes. CA-based personalized targets, such as optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt), lower/upper limit of regulation (LLR/ULR), and individualized intra-cranial pressure (iICP) are positioned to change the way we care for TBI patients in the ICU, moving away from the "one treatment fits all" paradigm of current guideline-based therapeutic approaches, towards a true personalized medicine approach tailored to the individual patient. Future perspectives regarding research needs in this field are also discussed.
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- Frederick Adam Zeiler
- Health Sciences Centre, Section of Neurosurgery, GB-1 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3A1R9;
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- University of Maastricht Medical Center, Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht, Netherlands;
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- university of cambridge, neurosurgery, Canbridge Biomedical Campus, box 167, cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, cb237ar;
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- Cambridge University, Neurosurgery, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
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