%0 Journal Article
%T Role of Transcranial Doppler Sonography in Diagnosis of Brain Death: A Single Center Study
%A Fariba Ghorbani
%A Hosein Delavarkasmaei
%A Katayoun Najafizadeh
%A Meysam Mojtabae
%A Mohammad Reza Kamranmanesh
%A Niloofar Basharzad
%A Seyed Hossein Ardehali
%A Seyed Mohammadreza Hashemian
%J Archive of "Tanaffos".
%D 2016
%X Diagnosis of brain death relies on clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) criteria. Waiting for 24 hours is mandatory to make definitive diagnosis of the condition in the Iranian protocol. Although it has been previously shown that oscillatory or spiked systolic or reversed diastolic flow patterns in transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) are associated with faster brain death confirmation, it has not yet been approved in our protocol. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the applicability of this method to our organ donation system
%K Brain death
%K Transcranial Doppler Sonography
%K Electroencephalography
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410117/