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Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 1999;36(2):311-318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4097/kjae.1999.36.2.311   
Effect of Bilateral Superior Cervical Sympathectomy on Focal Cerebral Infarction Induced by Autologous Blood Clot in Rabbits.
Chang Sung Kim, Cheol Joo Park, Keon Hee Ryu, Sie Hyun You, Nae Yun Yang, Jai Min Lee, Jun Whan Choi, Ou Kyoung Kwon
Department of Anesthesiology, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Many reports suggest that cervical sympathectomy improves cerebral blood flow. But the basal & medial areas of brain are innervated bilaterally, so unilateral sympathectomy may not improve the outcome of infarction of those areas effectively. Actually it was reported that only bilateral, not unilateral cervical sympathectomy increased the blood flow of thalamus which known to be innervated bilaterally, and also reported that unilateral sympathectomy did not reduce the infarct size of caudate nucleus. So we studied the effect of bilateral superior cervical sympathectomy on focal cerebral infarction.
METHODS
Twenty rabbits were divided into two groups. In the sham-operated control group (n=10), focal infarction was achieved by administering an autologous blood clot into the internal carotid artery after exposure of bilateral superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. In the sympathectomy group (n=10), bilateral superior cervical sympathetic ganglia were excised following embolization. Seven hours after embolization, brains were sliced into 2 mm coronal sections, stained with 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride, and infarct sizes were determined via image analysis.
RESULTS
There were no differences in the physiologic variables between two groups. The percentage of infarct size was significantly greater in the control group as compared to the sympathectomy group in both cortex (23+/-8% vs 12+/-5%, respectively; P<0.05) and subcortical area (35+/-8% vs 17+/-8%, respectively; P<0.05).
CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that bilateral superior cervical sympathectomy may reduce the infarct size of subcortical area as well as of cerebral cortex measured at 7 hours following induction of focal cerebral infarction.
Key Words: Sympathetic nervous system, ganglionic blockade, superior cervical, bilateral; Brain, infarction, focal


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