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Abstract #2064

Abnormal Brain Tissue Sodium Metabolism on MRI After Cardiac Arrest in Children

Ericka L. Fink1,2, Patrick M. Kochanek1,2, Ashok Panigrahy3, Fernando E. Boada4,5

1Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 3Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 4Radiology, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 5Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States


In two children with cardiac arrest, tissue sodium concentration was increased in regions of the brain that are most vulnerable to hypoxia-ischemia and reperfusion (basal ganglia and occipitoparietal cortex), representing prolonged or delayed deranged brain tissue Na metabolism.

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