Diagnostic Accuracy of Transcranial Doppler for Brain Death Confirmation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jason J Chang Georgios K Tsivgoulis Aristeidis H Katsanos Marc Malkoff Andrei V Alexandrov

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2015)

The results of this meta-analysis suggest that transcranial Doppler is a highly accurate ancillary test for brain death confirmation. However, transcranial Doppler evaluates cerebral circulatory arrest rather than brain stem function, and this limitation needs to be taken into account when interpreting the results of this meta-analysis.

Keyphrases

systematic review
resting state
white matter
cerebral ischemia
cerebral blood flow
meta analyses
blood flow
functional connectivity
subarachnoid hemorrhage
randomized controlled trial
high resolution
case control
brain injury
blood brain barrier
mass spectrometry
cell proliferation