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Relationship between Venous Pressure and Cortical Blood Flow

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IN man, acute occlusion of the superior vena cava results in complete obstruction to cerebral venous drainage, with gross changes in the electroencephalogram. In the dog, however, complete constriction of the superior vena cava results in a rise in cerebral venous pressure, but no significant changes in the EEG1 (Fig. 1). Venous pressure is compounded of a number of variables2 and a number of pressure-flow relations have been demonstrated in distensible vascular beds3.

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JACOBSON, I., HARPER, A. & MCDOWALL, D. Relationship between Venous Pressure and Cortical Blood Flow. Nature 200, 173–175 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200173b0

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