Endocrine changes in brain death and transplantation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 799-812

  Ranasinghe, Aaron M ^a,b   Bonser, Robert S ^a,b  

^a UHB NHS FT ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Neuropharmacology and Neurobiology Section   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain death; endocrine changes; hormonal supplementation; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIOTHYRONINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; STEROID; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASOPRESSIN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART PROTECTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESUSCITATION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 80052949428     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.03.003     Document Type: Review

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