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  1. Open Access 25-04-2024 | Brain Death | Online First

    Apnea Testing on Conventional Mechanical Ventilation During Brain Death Evaluation

    The apnea test is a critical component of brain death evaluation, to establish the absence of spontaneous respiratory effort, despite an adequate carbon dioxide stimulus [ 1 ]. The apnea test has traditionally been performed with disconnection from …

  2. 02-05-2024 | Acute Kidney Injury | Online First

    Clinical and histopathological characteristics of acute kidney injury in a cohort of brain death donors with procurement biopsies

    Acute kidney injury (AKI) can occur in nearly 50% of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and has been associated with a wide range of adverse events [ 1 ]. Therefore, it is not surprising that mortality is higher for many years …

  3. Open Access 01-12-2024 | Brain Death | OriginalPaper

    Bilateral vertebral artery injury leads to brain death following traumatic brain injury: a case report

    Vertebral artery injury following trauma is a rare case with incidence from 0.5 to 2% of all trauma cases. Traumatic vertebral artery injury (TVAI) can be related to cervical spine injury with some mechanisms, such as hyperflexion, hyperextension …

  4. Open Access 01-12-2024 | Brain Death | ReviewPaper

    Brain death: a review

    Thanatology is known as the scientific study of death and the related practices, as well as the study of the requirements of the terminally ill and their families. The medico-legal dilemmas concerning the description of death are not new [ 10 ].

  5. 05-04-2024 | Brain Death | Online First

    A Recruitment Maneuver After Apnea Testing Improves Oxygenation and Reduces Atelectasis in Organ Donors After Brain Death

    Apnea testing is an integral component of the determination of death by neurologic criteria, also known as brain death [ 1 ]. However, removing a patient with brain injury from a ventilator can be associated with serious complications [ 2 – 4 ].

  6. Open Access 12-12-2023 | Brain Death | OriginalPaper

    The use of quantitative pupillometry in brain death determination: preliminary findings

    Brain death (BD) is a state of irreversible cessation of all brain functions, including the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. However, the cardiovascular function is artificially maintained by controlled ventilation [ 1 ]. BD diagnosis …

  7. Open Access 23-02-2024 | Subarachnoid Hemorrhage | Online First

    Similarities in the Electrographic Patterns of Delayed Cerebral Infarction and Brain Death After Aneurysmal and Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

    While subarachnoid hemorrhage is the second most common hemorrhagic stroke in epidemiologic studies, the recent DISCHARGE-1 trial has shown that in reality, three-quarters of focal brain damage after subarachnoid hemorrhage is ischemic. Two-fifths …

  8. Open Access 01-12-2024 | ECMO | Letter

    Determination of brain death using 99mTc-HMPAO scintigraphy and transcranial duplex sonography in a patient on veno-arterial ECMO

    A 58-years-old man suffered an in-hospital cardiac arrest due to asystolia. Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation was successful, and vaECMO was established. However, severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy developed (Fig. 1 A), resulting in BD four days …

  9. 01-11-2023 | Autopsy | Letter

    Sudden unexplained death requires not only search for variants in SUD genes. but also extended autopsy, including the brain

  10. 25-08-2023 | Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis | OriginalPaper

    Brain MRI imaging markers associated with death in children with central nervous system involvement of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

    Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), which is characterized by hemophagocytic phenomena and cytokine storms, is a group of non-neoplastic proliferative disorders with rapid progression and high rates of lethality and disability that are …

  11. 05-01-2024 | Brain Death | Online First

    To Accelerate the Process of Brain Death Determination in China Through the Strategy and Practice of Establishing Demonstration Hospitals

    To date, the strategies and methods for brain death determination (BDD) still vary among countries. The United States proposed a definition of brain death and published BDD criteria (Harvard criteria) in 1968 and promulgated the Uniform Brain

  12. 21-11-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    Comment on: Canadian clinical practice guideline on brain death

  13. 21-11-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    In reply: Comment on: Canadian clinical practice guideline on brain death

  14. 02-10-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    In reply: Brain death is more than technical

  15. 01-09-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    Brain death is more than technical

  16. 26-09-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    Brazilian Contributions on Standardized Education for Brain Death Determination

  17. 26-09-2023 | Brain Death | Letter

    Response to “Some Contributions on Standardized Education for Brain Death Determination”

  18. 19-10-2023 | Brain Death | OriginalPaper

    Histological and clinical evaluation of discarded kidneys in a European cohort of deceased brain death donor kidneys of marginal quality

    The survival benefit of kidney transplantation compared to maintenance dialysis across all ages is indisputable [ 1 – 3 ]. However, there is a profound gap between organ demand and supply [ 4 ]. Strategies have been developed to increase the …

  19. Open Access 28-06-2023 | Brain Death | OriginalPaper

    Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion

    A “universalist” policy on brain death holds that brain death is death, and neurologic criteria for death determination are rightly applied to all, without exemptions or opt outs. This essay argues that advocates of a universalist brain death

  20. Open Access 03-02-2023 | Edema | OriginalPaper

    Brain water content in sudden unexpected infant death

    The extensive and rapid development of the human brain during the first years of life complicates the postmortem diagnosis of brain edema in infancy. The aim of this study was to describe brain water content, the brain weight/body weight ratio …

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