Loading...
Studies of brain injury in survivors of cardiac arrest have been mostly limited to the acute setting and in the context of prognostication (JW Neurol Oct 17 2006). The few long-term survivor studies have focused on cognitive impairment and quality of life without establishing the extent of structural injury (Resuscitation 2009; 80:297). Now, researchers have combined structural and functional analyses to advance the understanding of long-term brain recovery after cardiac arrest resuscitation. Researchers performed an in vivo comparison of gray-matter loss by using voxel-based morphometry of 3-T structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 12 patients who survived cardiac arrest and 12 individually age- and sex-matched healthy controls. MR…