Acta Vet. Brno 2024, 93: 405-415
Canine cerebral circulation: a review
The cerebral vascular system (CVS) of mammals is a complicated three-dimensional structure that supplies brain parenchyma with oxygenated blood and nutrients, drains deoxygenated blood and catabolites out from it and participates in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) resorption, maintenance of intracranial pressure (ICP) stability, and brain thermoregulation. A thorough understanding of the morphology and function of CVS is essential for human as well as veterinary neurologists and neurosurgeons as it helps to diagnose intracranial pathological processes, to choose an optimal therapeutic approach for the specific patient concerning configuration and possible anomalies of their CVS, and to execute intracranial surgical procedures. The number of brain operations in dogs has rapidly grown, which prompted the authors to review the literature on the complex issue of canine intracranial blood vessels. The research strategy involved a PubMed, MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science search from January 1960 to January 2024 using the terms ‘canine brain blood vessels’ and ‘cerebral haemodynamics in dogs’ in the English language literature; references from selected papers were also scanned, and relevant articles were included.
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The accumulation and study of literature dealing with the canine cerebral vascular system morphology and function, intracranial pressure dynamic, and the preparation of the presented study were supported by the VEGA grant No 1/0014/21 of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
