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J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2024; 85(03): 302-306
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1759826
Technical Note

Placement of a Catheter into the Transverse Sinus in Monitoring Intracranial Lesions: A Technical Note

Xingping Dai 
1   Department of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Yanyi Chen
2   Department of Integrated TCM and Western Medicine, The First Hospital of Changsha, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Mingyue Xia
1   Department of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Min Yi
3   Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese & Western Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Xia Xu
4   Department of General Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Dongsheng Wang
1   Department of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha, P.R. China
,
Edwin M. Nemoto
5   Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
› Author Affiliations Funding This research was funded by the grants from Key project of 2020 Hunan Province Natural Fund (No. 2020JJ4872); Key Projects of Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2020 (No. 202010); National Renowned Expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine Professor Li Jiabang Inheritance Studio, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Letter (2018) 134; the Study on the therapeutic effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on severe TBI patients and TBI mice. Hunan Science and technology Major projects subproject (No. 2020SK1014); and the China Scholarship Council Grant (No. 201206375041).
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Abstract

High intracranial pressure (ICP) can be induced by stroke, brain trauma, and brain tumor, and lead to cerebral injury. Monitoring the blood flow of a damaged brain is important for detecting intracranial lesions. Blood sampling is a better way to monitor changes in brain oxygen and blood flow than computed tomography perfusion and magnetic resonance imaging. This article describes how to take blood samples from the transverse sinus in a high ICP rat model. Also, it compares the blood samples from the transverse sinus and femoral artery/vein through blood gas analysis and neuronal cell staining. The findings may be of significance to the monitoring of the oxygen and blood flow of intracranial lesions.

Keywords

transverse sinus - catheterization - intracranial lesions - intracranial pressure


Publication History

Received: 02 April 2022

Accepted: 01 September 2022

Article published online:
16 February 2023

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