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Cerebral Metabolism During Electrically Induced Seizures in Man
Jerome B. Posner, MD;
Fred Plum, MD;
Alan Van Poznak, MD
Arch Neurol. 1969;20(4):388-395.
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DURING convulsions, cerebral metabolism increases and the brain's need for oxygen and substrate rises.1,2 At the same time, respiration ceases and this plus the intense muscle activity of the convulsion results in arterial blood hypoxia. To meet the increased metabolic demands of cerebral seizures, cerebral vessels dilate, systemic blood pressure increases,3 and cerebral blood flow rises.1,4,5 However, these compensating mechanisms cannot prevent brain hypoxia if the arterial blood is desaturated and, as a result, during a generalized convulsion cerebral venous and cortical oxygen tension decrease,6 cerebral energy stores are depleted,6,7 and brain lactate rises.6,7
The present study was undertaken to determine whether the compensatory increase in cerebral blood flow can protect the human brain against hypoxia during a cerebral seizure if apnea and muscle movement are eliminated. The study was begun after a previous study suggested that cerebral hypoxia does not occur during
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Author Affiliations
New York
From the departments of neurology (Drs. Posner and Plum) and anesthesiology (Dr. Van Poznak), Cornell University Medical College-The New York Hospital, New York.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 10, 1968; accepted Jan 3, 1969.
Read before the American Neurological Association, Washington, DC, June 1968.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College, 525 E 68th St, New York 10021 (Dr. Posner).
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