RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIFIC-GRAVITY, WATER-CONTENT, AND SERUM-PROTEIN EXTRAVASATION IN VARIOUS TYPES OF VASOGENIC BRAIN EDEMA
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIFIC-GRAVITY, WATER-CONTENT, AND SERUM-PROTEIN EXTRAVASATION IN VARIOUS TYPES OF VASOGENIC BRAIN EDEMA
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00695604
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
12.7
通讯作者:
HOSSMANN, KA
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作者:
BOTHE, HW;BODSCH, W;HOSSMANN, KA
Vasogenic brain edema was induced in cats by cold injury (6 animals), brain tumors (5 animals), and brain abscesses (6 animals). Water and electrolyte content, specific gravity, blood volume, and the amount of extravasated serum proteins were determined in small tissue samples taken from gray and white matter at various distances from the lesion. Edema was strictly confined to the white matter of the affected hemisphere and declined from the lesion to the more peripheral regions. It was characterized by the extravasation of serum proteins and an increase of the water and Na content with little or unpredictable changes of K and blood volume. The calculated Na content of edema fluid varied between 129 and 135 .mu.eq/ml, and serum protein content between 8.1 and 11.9 mg/ml. In all 3 types of edema, specific gravity and water content correlated closely with the same slope and intercept of the calculated regression (y = 1.119 - 0.0011x, r = -0.91). Evidently, the main denominator of specific gravity of edematous white matter is water content and this relationship is not significantly altered by variations of blood volume or serum protein content.