Vasopressin serum levels in patients with severe brain lesions and in brain-dead patients Níveis séricos de arginina vasopressina em pacientes com lesão cerebral grave e em pacientes com morte encefálica

Autor: Eliane de Araújo Cintra, Jayme Antunes Maciel Jr, Sebastião Araújo, Margaret de Castro, Edna Freitas Martins, Antônio Luiz Eiras Falcão, Luiz A.C. Sardinha, Renato G.G. Terzi, Desanka Dragosavac, Ana Paula Devite Cardoso, Rosmari A.R.A. Oliveira
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 62, Iss 2a, Pp 226-232 (2004)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0004-282X
1678-4227
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2004000200007
Popis: INTRODUCTION: Patients with severe brain lesions (SBL) and brain-dead patients (BD) frequently present with vasopressin (AVP) secretion disorders. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate AVP serum levels in SBL and BD patients. DESIGN: Prospective, open label, observational trial. SETTING: A general teaching hospital. METHOD: Three groups of adult subjects (age> 18y) of both sexes were included in this study: control group: 29 healthy volunteers; SBL group: 17 patients with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)< 8; and BD group: 11 brain-dead patients. Samples of venous blood were collected in the morning at rest from healthy volunteers and at 8 hourly intervals over a period of 24h from SBL and BD patients for AVP determinations. Concomitantly, some clinical and laboratorial variables were also recorded. RESULTS: AVP serum levels (pg/ml) were [mean (SD); median]: control [2.2(1.1); 2.0]; SBL [5.7(6.3); 2.9]; and BD [2.6(1.0); 2.8]. AVP serum levels varied greatly in SBL patients, but without statistically significant difference in relation to the other groups (p=0.06). Hypotension (p=0.02), hypernatremia (p=0.0001), serum hyperosmolarity (p=0.0001) and urinary hypoosmolarity (p=0.003) were outstanding in BD patients when compared with SBL. CONCLUSIONS: The AVP serum levels did not demonstrate significant statistical difference between the groups, only showing a greater variability in SBL patients (manifested as serum spike levels). Hypernatremia and hyperosmolarity were present in BD patients, indicating a failure of the hypothalamic-pituitary system in AVP production and release.INTRODUÇÃO: Pacientes com lesão cerebral grave (LCG) ou com morte encefálica (ME) freqüentemente apresentam alterações na secreção de vasopressina (AVP). OBJETIVO: Avaliar os níveis séricos de AVP em pacientes com LCG e ME. DESENHO: Estudo prospectivo, aberto, observacional. LOCAL: Um hospital geral universitário. MÉTODO: Sujeitos adultos (idade >18 anos), de ambos os sexos, foram divididos em três grupos: grupo controle: 29 voluntários sadios; grupo LCG: 17 pacientes com pontuação na Escala de Coma de Glasgow (ECG)
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