Decompressive Craniectomy with Lattice Duraplasty?A Study on Intracranial Pressure and Imaging FeaturesDongxia Feng, MD11Little Rock, AR United States Keywords: craniectomy, intracranial pressure, duraplasty, outcome, ImagingInteractive Manuscript
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What is the background behind your study?
The effect of different duraplasty techniques after trauma may be different.
What is the purpose of your study?
To investigate the alteration of intracranial pressure and imaging features after decompressive craniectomy with lattice duraplasty in patients with severe head injury.
Describe your patient group.
Fifty patients suffered from severe head injury with brain swelling were operated using Amercian standard large trauma craniotomy, the lattice duraplasty technique was applied intraoperatively.
Describe what you did.
The pre- and post-operative ICP and imaging features were observed and recorded, followed by a statistical comparative study.
Describe your main findings.
The preoperative ICP was 37.6±7.9mmHg, the midline shift was 11.7±3.8mm, the patients with open ambient cistern were 3 cases. The postoperative ICP reduced to 14.1±6.3mmHgthe midline shift decreased to 4.6±2.7mm, and the patients with open ambient cistern were 31cases. Compared with preoperative data all postoperative data were improved significantly (P<0.01).
Describe the main limitation of this study.
This is a retrospective study.
Describe your main conclusion.
The technique of lattice duraplasty used in decompressive craniectomy could reduce ICP and midline shift.
Describe the importance of your findings and how they can be used by others.
It also could alleviatee the ambient cistern compression.
The effect of different duraplasty techniques after trauma may be different.
To investigate the alteration of intracranial pressure and imaging features after decompressive craniectomy with lattice duraplasty in patients with severe head injury.
Fifty patients suffered from severe head injury with brain swelling were operated using Amercian standard large trauma craniotomy, the lattice duraplasty technique was applied intraoperatively.
The pre- and post-operative ICP and imaging features were observed and recorded, followed by a statistical comparative study.
The preoperative ICP was 37.6±7.9mmHg, the midline shift was 11.7±3.8mm, the patients with open ambient cistern were 3 cases. The postoperative ICP reduced to 14.1±6.3mmHgthe midline shift decreased to 4.6±2.7mm, and the patients with open ambient cistern were 31cases. Compared with preoperative data all postoperative data were improved significantly (P<0.01).
This is a retrospective study.
The technique of lattice duraplasty used in decompressive craniectomy could reduce ICP and midline shift.
It also could alleviatee the ambient cistern compression.
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