[Clinical importance of assessment of collateral capacity in the circle of Willis. Benefit of a mathematical blood flow model for the every-day practice of vascular surgery] (original) (raw)

Magyar sebészet, 2001

Abstract

Collateral capacity of the Willisian arteries is of clinical importance during and after carotid endarterectomies. Assessment of cerebral hemodynamics using a flow circulation model based on a mathematical formula. Four patients suffering from ischemic stroke in moribund stage were investigated using transcranial color-coded duplex sonography. By compressing the common carotid arteries, the function of the Willisian collaterals was assessed. After the death of the patients, the circles were removed, the diameters and lengths of the arterial segments were measured. The data were analysed with the mentioned circulation model. The diameters of non-functioning collateral arteries were 0.4 mm, while that of the functional ones were 0.7 and 0.8 mm, respectively. In the two cases where the anterior communicating arteries did not function, a near-critical hemodynamical status was found in the end-arteries. This was especially true if the mean arterial blood pressure was 70 mmHg. The most cr...

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