Neurosonology is the set of ultrasonic imaging of the brain and other neural structures.
These diagnostic methods represent noninvasive, safe, and cost-effective bedside tests for evaluating cerebrovascular circulation in real time.
Carotid and vertebral duplex scanning, along with transcranial doppler, provide a non-invasive, portable and radiation-free way to detect, localize, and quantify disease and to evaluate hemodynamic responses, thus allowing a neurovascular examination at bedside.
In light of this, Neurosonology can be applied in several clinical contexts, such as stroke prevention, acute stroke diagnosis and early management, vasospasm detecting and monitoring, critical illness assessment and cerebral death confirmation.
Due to the aforementioned widespread field of application, Neurosonology is usually part of a multidisciplinary approach, involving Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Vascular Surgeons, Intensivists.
The goal of the present Research Topic is to analyze recent findings in the most important fields of application of Neurosonology, starting from but beyond cerebrovascular diseases, with particular interest in haemodynamic assessment and monitoring.
Indeed, in last years a crescent number of evidences highlighted the useful potential role of ultrasound imaging in neurocritical care, further vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage, such as providing a tool in indirectly but reliably monitoring intracranial pressure in severe traumatic and atraumatic encephalopathy.
In a multidisciplinar point of view, Neurosonology should really be considered ‘‘doctor’s stethoscope for the brain’’, representing an essential completion of a modern conception of Neurologist.
In light of what aforementioned, the Research Topic is aimed to collect articles focused on:
- carotid and vertebral duplex in assessment of carotid stenosis and subclavian steal, as post-surgical follow-up;
- large vessels disease diagnosis as stroke etiology, including dissections and intracranial stenosis;
- right-to-left shunt detection in stroke due to paradoxical embolism;
- the role of Neurosonology in monitoring the effect of early treatment of acute ischemic stroke, with particular interest in cerebral vasomotor reactivity as a main haemodynamic tool;
- assessment and monitoring of vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage;
- cerebral death declaration;
- haemodynamic monitoring of neurocritical patients, including indirect estimation of intracranial pressure, together to optic nerve diameter measurement.
These themes can be treated by original articles, reviews or metanalysis.
Neurosonology is the set of ultrasonic imaging of the brain and other neural structures.
These diagnostic methods represent noninvasive, safe, and cost-effective bedside tests for evaluating cerebrovascular circulation in real time.
Carotid and vertebral duplex scanning, along with transcranial doppler, provide a non-invasive, portable and radiation-free way to detect, localize, and quantify disease and to evaluate hemodynamic responses, thus allowing a neurovascular examination at bedside.
In light of this, Neurosonology can be applied in several clinical contexts, such as stroke prevention, acute stroke diagnosis and early management, vasospasm detecting and monitoring, critical illness assessment and cerebral death confirmation.
Due to the aforementioned widespread field of application, Neurosonology is usually part of a multidisciplinary approach, involving Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Vascular Surgeons, Intensivists.
The goal of the present Research Topic is to analyze recent findings in the most important fields of application of Neurosonology, starting from but beyond cerebrovascular diseases, with particular interest in haemodynamic assessment and monitoring.
Indeed, in last years a crescent number of evidences highlighted the useful potential role of ultrasound imaging in neurocritical care, further vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage, such as providing a tool in indirectly but reliably monitoring intracranial pressure in severe traumatic and atraumatic encephalopathy.
In a multidisciplinar point of view, Neurosonology should really be considered ‘‘doctor’s stethoscope for the brain’’, representing an essential completion of a modern conception of Neurologist.
In light of what aforementioned, the Research Topic is aimed to collect articles focused on:
- carotid and vertebral duplex in assessment of carotid stenosis and subclavian steal, as post-surgical follow-up;
- large vessels disease diagnosis as stroke etiology, including dissections and intracranial stenosis;
- right-to-left shunt detection in stroke due to paradoxical embolism;
- the role of Neurosonology in monitoring the effect of early treatment of acute ischemic stroke, with particular interest in cerebral vasomotor reactivity as a main haemodynamic tool;
- assessment and monitoring of vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage;
- cerebral death declaration;
- haemodynamic monitoring of neurocritical patients, including indirect estimation of intracranial pressure, together to optic nerve diameter measurement.
These themes can be treated by original articles, reviews or metanalysis.
