Decompressive craniectomies, facts and fiction: A retrospective analysis of 526 cases

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 919-926

  Tagliaferri, Fernanda ^a   Zani, Giulia ^b   Iaccarino, Corrado ^a   Ferro, Salvatore ^c   Ridolfi, Lorenza ^c   Basaglia, Nino ^b   Hutchinson, Peter ^d   Servadei, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c Emilia Romagna Regional Health Care Department   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Bone flap size; Decompressive craniectomy; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BONE GRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862695665     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1318-0     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Aarabi B, Hesdorffer DC, Ahn ES, Aresco C, Scalea TM, Eisenberg HM (2006) Outcome following decompressive craniectomy for malignant swelling due to severe head injury. J Neurosurg 104:469-479
2. Aarabi B, Hesdorffer DC, Simard JM, Ahn ES, Aresco C, Eisenberg HM, McCunn M, Scalea T (2009) Comparative study of decompressive craniectomy after mass lesion evacuation in severe head injury. Neurosurgery 64:927-939
3. Albanese J, LeoneM, Alliez JR, Kaya JM, Antonini F, Alliez B,Martin C (2003) Decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury: evaluation of the effects at one year. Crit Care Med 31:2535-2538
4. Bentley JN, Figueroa RE, Vender JR (2009) From presentation to follow-up: diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis. Neurosurg Focus 27:E4
5. Bullock MR, Chesnut R, Ghajar J, Gordon D, Hartl R, Newell DW, Servadei F,Walters BC,Wilberger J (2006) Surgical management of traumatic parenchymal lesions. Neurosurgery 58:S25-46
6. Compagnone C, Murray GD, Teasdale GM, Maas AI, Esposito D, Princi P, D'Avella D, Servadei F (2005) The management of patients with intradural post-traumatic mass lesions: a multicenter survey of current approaches to surgical management in 729 patients coordinated by the European Brain Injury Consortium. Neurosurgery 57:1183-1192
7. Cooper DJ, Rosenfeld JV, Murray L, Arabi YM, Davies AR, D'Urso P, Kossmann T, Ponsford J, Seppelt I, Reilly P, Wolfe R (2011) Decompressive craniectomy in diffuse traumatic brain injury. N Engl J Med 364:1493-1502
8. Cooper PR, Rovit RL, Ransohoff J (1976) Hemicraniectomy in the treatment of acute subdural hematoma: a re-appraisal. Surg Neurol 5:25-28
9. De Bonis P, Pompucci A, Mangiola A, D'Alessandris QG, Rigante L, Anile C (2010) Decompressive craniectomy for the treatment of traumatic brain injury: does an age limit exist? J Neurosurg 112:1150-1153
10. De Bonis P, Pompucci A, Mangiola A, Paternoster G, Festa R, Nucci CG, Maviglia R, Antonelli M, Anile C (2011) Decompressivecraniectomy for elderly patients with traumatic brain injury: it's probably not worth the while. J Neurotrauma 28:2043-2048
11. Di Rienzo A, Iacoangeli M, Rychlicki F, Veccia S, Scerrati M (2008) Decompressive craniectomy for medically refractory intracranial hypertension due to meningoencephalitis: report of three patients. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 150:1057-1065
12. Escudero Augusto D, Marques Alvarez L, Taboada Costa F (2008) Up-date in spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage. Med Intensiva 32:282-295
13. Guresir E, Schuss P, Vatter H, Raabe A, Seifert V, Beck J (2009) Decompressive craniectomy in subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurg Focus 26:E4
14. Hukkelhoven CW, Steyerberg EW, Rampen AJ, Farace E, Habbema JD, Marshall LF, Murray GD, Maas AI (2003) Patient age and outcome following severe traumatic brain injury: an analysis of 5600 patients. J Neurosurg 99:666-673
15. Jennett B, Bond M (1975) Assessment of outcome after severe brain damage. Lancet 1:480-484
16. Jiang JY, Xu W, Li WP, Xu WH, Zhang J, Bao YH, Ying YH, Luo QZ (2005) Efficacy of standard trauma craniectomy for refractory intracranial hypertension with severe traumatic brain injury: a multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled study. J Neurotrauma 22:623-628
17. Kocher T (1901) Die Therapie des Hirndruckes. In: Hölder A (ed) Hirnerschütterung. Hirndruck und chirurgische Eingriffe bei Hirnkrankheiten, Vienna, pp 262-6
18. Li LM, Timofeev I, Czosnyka M, Hutchinson PJ (2010) Review article: the surgical approach to the management of increased intracranial pressure after traumatic brain injury. Anesth Analg 111:736-748
19. Mitchell P, Gregson BA, Vindlacheruvu RR, Mendelow AD (2007) Surgical options in ICH including decompressive craniectomy. J Neurol Sci 261:89-98
20. Munch E, Horn P, Schurer L, Piepgras A, Paul T, Schmiedek P (2000) Management of severe traumatic brain injury by decompressive craniectomy. Neurosurgery 47:315-322
21. Polin RS, Shaffrey ME, Bogaev CA, Tisdale N, Germanson T, Bocchicchio B, Jane JA (1997) Decompressive bifrontal craniectomy in the treatment of severe refractory posttraumatic cerebral edema. Neurosurgery 41:84-92
22. Ransohoff J, Benjamin V (1971) Hemicraniectomy in the treatment of acute subdural haematoma. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 34:106
23. Sahuquillo J, Arikan F (2006) Decompressive craniectomy for the treatment of refractory high intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. doi:10.1002/14651858. CD003983
24. Servadei F (2011) Clinical value of decompressive craniectomy. N Engl J Med 364:1558-1559
25. Taylor A, Butt W, Rosenfeld J, Shann F, Ditchfield M, Lewis E, Klug G, Wallace D, Henning R, Tibballs J (2001) A randomized trial of very early decompressive craniectomy in children with traumatic brain injury and sustained intracranial hypertension. Childs Nerv Syst 17:154-162
26. The Brain Trauma Foundation, The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2000) The joint section on neurotrauma and critical care. Intracranial pressure treatment threshold. J Neurotrauma 17:493-495
27. Timofeev I, Czosnyka M, Nortje J, Smielewski P, Kirkpatrick P, Gupta A, Hutchinson P (2008) Effect of decompressive craniectomy on intracranial pressure and cerebrospinal compensation following traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurg 108:66-73
28. Vahedi K, Hofmeijer J, Juettler E, Vicaut E, George B, Algra A, Amelink GJ, Schmiedeck P, Schwab S, Rothwell PM, Bousser MG, van der Worp HB, Hacke W (2007) Early decompressive surgery in malignant infarction of the middle cerebral artery: a pooled analysis of three randomised controlled trials. Lancet Neurol 6:215-222
29. Wendell LC, Khan A, Raser J, Lang SS, Malhotra N, Kofke WA, LeRoux P, Park S, Levine JM (2010) Successful management of refractory intracranial hypertension from acute hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a woman with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. Neurocrit Care 13:113-117
30. Williams RF, Magnotti LJ, Croce MA, Hargraves BB, Fischer PE, Schroeppel TJ, Zarzaur BL, Muhlbauer M, Timmons SD, Fabian TC (2009) Impact of decompressive craniectomy on functional outcome after severe traumatic brain injury. J Trauma 66:1570-1574
31. Wirtz CR, Steiner T, Aschoff A, Schwab S, Schnippering H, Steiner HH, HackeW, Kunze S (1997) Hemicraniectomy with dural augmentation in medically uncontrollable hemispheric infarction. Neurosurg Focus 2:E3