Active clinical trials for "Intracranial Hypertension"

This study is designed to evaluate the accuracy of a non-invasive method phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MR-ICP) for assessing intracranial pressure (Phase 1). To perform second phase contrast imaging to evaluate the patency and flow of ventricular catheters after MR-ICP imaging (Phase 2).

This study will test the use of video ophthalmoscope to provide information about intracranial pressure without the use of invasive methods, anesthesia or contact with the eye.

Investigators will compare magnetic resonance (MR) elastography measurements to other forms of noninvasive methods of detecting raised intracranial pressure, including optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging measurements of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and indirect signs of raised intracranial pressure on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic value of central retinal artery Doppler study in case of increased intracranial pressure.

The goal of this phase 1 randomized controlled safety and feasibility clinical trial are to determine the safety of external lumbar drainage (ELD) in select patients with severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The main questions it aims to answer are (i) if ELD is feasible and (ii) safe to perform in severe TBI patients who have radiological evidence of patent basal cisterns and midline shift <5mm without increasing the risk of neurological worsening or cerebral herniation. All participants will receive routine usual care. The study group will additionally have ELD for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage. A comparison will be made between the usual treatment plus ELD (interventional) groups, and the usual treatment (control) groups on incidence rate of neurological worsening or cerebral herniation events, and whether total hours with raised intracranial pressure (ICP) are different.

In modern medicine, doctors attempt to monitor all physiological variables to assess their evolution and to decide, based on their changes, the therapeutic attitudes to adopt. Furthermore, this helps to establish a forecast of the evolution to be expected. The measurement of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) has become indispensable for managing brain pathology at the anterior and middle fossa level. Doctors generally carry out this measurement at the frontal level. However, experimental and clinical studies have shown that supra-tentorial ICP measurement does not precisely predict the ICP situation in the posterior fossa. The increased ICP in the posterior fossa is directly responsible for the clinical deterioration and eventual death in patients with tumour, hemorrhagic, or ischemic pathology of the posterior fossa structures. Some of these lesions are treatable, and their effects reversible if the increase in ICP in the posterior fossa is controlled by pharmacological or even surgical means, preventing it from reaching high levels. This need for on-time ICP control is genuine in the cerebellar hemispheres' lesions, not so much in lesions involving the brainstem. Therefore, the increase in ICP in the posterior fossa needs to be known and documented to facilitate decision-making regarding the therapy to be adopted, be it medical or surgical. It is known what the abnormal ICP levels are at the supratentorial level, but what is not known whether these same levels apply to the posterior fossa. In other words, what it is not know with certainty is whether the same levels of ICP in the posterior fossa and its elevation during the same time are going to have equally pernicious effects or these effects are greater or lesser. Doctors need to have tables of ICP values in the posterior fossa to help them decide when these values are in the physiological range. When posterior fossa intracranial pressure lye in the pathological range, and patients need pharmacological treatment or surgical decompression, knowing for sure the posterior fossa ICP is essential. Finally, when doctors also need to know when any therapeutic attempt is useless. Currently, doctors only monitor the ICP at the supra-tentorial level and deduce the changes in the posterior fossa from the CT and MRI images, that is, the size of the lesions, the occlusion of the cisterns, the internal cerebral hernias (cerebellar tonsils, trans-tentorial hernia from bottom to top). However, doctors do not have a tool that can objectify the pathophysiological situation of the posterior fossa's structures in real-time. Monitoring the posterior fossa ICP will help doctors in decision-making in patients with traumatic, hemorrhagic, ischemic, or tumour pathologies (in the latter case, in the postoperative period of posterior fossa tumours). This posterior fossa ICP measurement will lead to improvements in morbidity/mortality in this subgroup of patients.

Spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage (SICH) is a hemorrhage caused by the rupture of a blood vessel within the brain parenchyma that is non-traumatic. Its rapid onset and dangerous condition seriously threaten human health; it accounts for about 15% of strokes and 50% of stroke-related mortality. Hunan Province is recognized as one of the high incidence areas of cerebral hemorrhage in the world; according to statistics, the direct economic loss caused by cerebral hemorrhage in Hunan Province is more than 1 billion yuan per year, which should be paid great attention. A 30-day follow-up study of large-volume cerebral hemorrhage (defined as supratentorial hemorrhage greater than 30 ml, infratentorial greater than 5 ml, and thalamus and cerebellum greater than 15 ml) found that the morbidity and mortality rate of ICH with hemorrhage of 30-60 ml was as high as 44-74%, while the morbidity and mortality rate of ICH with hemorrhage of <30 ml was 19% and that of >60 ml was 91%. According to studies, the occurrence of hematoma occupancy and malignant cerebral edema in large-volume cerebral hemorrhage can lead to secondary malignant intracranial pressure elevation and subsequent secondary brain injury, which are the main factors of high morbidity and mortality and poor prognosis in patients with large-volume cerebral hemorrhage. Clinical monitoring and management is the key to treatment, and despite aggressive surgical treatment and anti-brain edema therapy, a large number of patients progress to malignant brain edema disease, leading to poor outcomes. Therefore, this project intends to conduct a multicenter clinical trial of non-invasive monitoring of large volume cerebral hemorrhage on the curtain in the Hunan region to explore the impact of non-invasive brain edema monitoring management based on bioelectrical impedance technology on patient prognosis; and to explore early biomarkers of malignant brain edema through metabolomic analysis and the mechanism of malignant brain edema occurrence through multi-omic analysis to provide data support for the clinical treatment application of malignant brain edema.

Introduction: Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is essential in several medical situations, however, currently there is an invasive technique, costly, not widely available and sometimes contraindicated. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) pulsatility index (PI) measure can provide indirect information on the cerebrovascular resistance (CVR) augmentation, which is present concomitantly with intracranial hypertension (ICH). The hypothesis that PI measure accurately indicates cerebral compliance impairment (CCI) has been not assessed by large studies currently, and would be of value as a non invasive technique to denote earlier installing of therapeutics to prevent the effects of ICH. Likewise, a novel technique of intracranial compliance assessment by means of an external sensor has been developed, still in need of being prospectively studied. Objective: The present study aims to assess PI accuracy indicating CCI, and dynamic cerebral auto regulation (dCAR) during internal jugular veins (IJVs) compression observed by both invasive and non-invasive techniques. Methods: A prospective, observational controlled study, including critical neurological patients with ICP monitoring in normal range (under 20 mmHg). Initially, dCAR is monitored, then, the IJVs are compressed for 60 seconds with ultrasound guidance. We evaluate optic nerve sheath prior to intervention, and dCAR, ICP values, ICP waveforms and PI variation at different times, correlating results.

The aim of this study is to investigate any direct correlation between increased intrathoracic pressure, intraabdominal pressure and intracranial pressure, following a controlled elevation in intraabdominal pressure and intrathoracic pressure (PEEP). The second end-point is to investigate any correlation between elevated intracranial pressure and vasopressin release, urine output and urine and serum osmolality by measuring their values at different time-points.

In the brain and its borders, blood vessels coexist with lymphatic vessels exclusively in the dura mater, the outermost layer of meninges. Dural lymphatics are present in various vertebrate species, including humans, and a cluster of experimental studies in the mouse strongly suggest their relevance in the pathophysiology of chronic and acute neurological disorders in humans. Demonstrating this assumption is however still at stake and the lymphatic regulatory mechanisms involved remain poorly characterized. Our main objective is to assess dural lymphatics contribution to the pathophysiology of a rare neurological disorder: idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). In IIH patients, intracranial hypertension causes severe headache and visual loss and is associated with a stenosis of dural sinuses and abnormal retention of fluids in the central nervous system. Angioplasty treatment by stent placement into venous sinuses is frequently followed by recurrent stenosis suggesting that, in addition to the blood vessels, the duro-lymphatic environment contributes to disease progression. Several studies have found hot spots of lymphatic uptake at confluence points between cerebral veins and dural sinuses. Based on this premise, the investigators predict a causal link between lymphatic and venous behavior around dural sinuses and the remodeling of dural lymphatics in neurovascular conditions such as IIH. Our approach will combine radiological observations from human patients with experimental analyses in mouse models. The investigators have recently developed a technique of high resolution vessel wall imaging to explore and compare the lymphatic networks between individuals. This advanced MR-imaging technique has been validated through a translational study comparing the lymphatic networks in mice and humans (Jacob et al. 2022, JExpMed). Using this tool, the investigators aim to monitor dural lymphatic and sinus wall abnormalities in patients with IIH. In this view, cohorts of IIH patients and controls without neurological disorders (n = 20/cohort) will be scanned by MRI to perform high resolution vessel wall imaging of the dural lymphatics, sinus and cerebral veins.