Rete mirabile

T.A. Becker, D.R. Kipke, M.C. Preul, W.D. Bichard, C.G. McDougall. In vivo assessment of calcium alginate gel for endovascular embolization of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation model using the Swine rete mirabile. Neurosurgery. 2002 51(2) 453 59. 

Becker, T. A., Kipke, D. R., Preul, M. C., Bichard, W. D. McDougaU, C. G. (2002) Endovascular embolization of a cerebral arteriovenous matformation model using the swine rete mirabile. Neurosurgery, 51, 453—459. 

Murayama, Y., Vinuela, F., Ulhoa, A., Akiba, Y., Duckwiler, G. R., Gobin, Y. P., Vinters, H. V. Greff, R. J. (1998) Nonadhesive hquid embolic agent for cerebral arteriovenous malformations preliminary histopathological studies in swine rete mirabile. Neurosurgery, 43, 1164-1172. 

The toxicity of DMSO has been discussed in a few reports (Chaloupka et al. 1994 Sampei et al. 1996 Murayama et al. 1998 Chaloupka et al. 1999). The first paper of Chaloupka and coworkers emphasized the risk of severe vasospasm after injection of 0.8 ml EVOH and DMSO in the swine rete mirabile with subsequent infarction. Injection of 0.5 ml resulted in delayed (7-14 days) subarachnoid hemorrhage with angionecrosis on histology and arterial microaneurysms. Two other studies reexamined this toxicity... 

This system, which uses countercurrent heat exchange to limit the loss of heat between arterial and venous blood, is called the rete mirabile ( wonderful net ). 

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