Resistive Index Variability in Anterior Cerebral Artery Measurements During Daily Transcranial Duplex Sonography: A Predictor of Cerebrovascular Complications in Infants Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation?
Resistive index variability of 10% or greater on any day had a statistically significant risk of cerebrovascular complication development. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation at younger than 3 days conferred an increased risk of cerebrovascular complications.
The present study demonstrates that uterine cervical distension results in a similar pattern of spinal cord neuronal activation as seen with other noxious visceral stimuli. The inhibition of cFos expression by intrathecal ketorolac suggests that spinal cyclo-oxygenase plays a role in uterine cervical distension-induced nociception.