CHU Lili 1,2 , LIU Yi 1,2 , ZHOU Tingyuan 1,2 , TANG Songling 1,2 , MA Wen 1,2 , YAO Peng 1,2 , CAO Yu 1,2
  • 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Laboratory of Emergency Medicine, West China School of Medicine / West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Disaster Medical Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
CAO Yu, Email: yuyuer@126.com
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Elderly patients account for 80% of cardiac arrest patients. The incidence of poor neurological prognosis after return of spontaneous circulation of these patients is as high as 90%, much higher than that of young. This is related to the fact that the mechanism of hippocampal brain tissue injury after ischemia-reperfusion in elderly cardiac arrest patients is aggravated. Therefore, this study reviews the possible mechanisms of poor neurological prognosis after return of spontaneous circulation in elderly cardiac arrest animals, and the results indicate that the decrease of hippocampal perfusion and the number of neurons after resuscitation are the main causes of the increased hippocampal injury, among which oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and protein homeostasis disorder are the important factors of cell death. This review hopes to provide new ideas for the treatment of elderly patients with cardiac arrest and the improvement of neurological function prognosis through the comparative analysis of elderly and young animals.

Citation: CHU Lili, LIU Yi, ZHOU Tingyuan, TANG Songling, MA Wen, YAO Peng, CAO Yu. Mechanism of impaired hippocampal function in elderly cardiac arrest animals. West China Medical Journal, 2022, 37(11): 1711-1714. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202210222 Copy

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