A 4 day-clinical microdialysis monitoring in a patient with traumatic brain injury (tbi) suggests a possible link between brain serotonin and cerebral energy metabolism
Résumé
While the continuous microdialysis monitoring of cerebral biomarkers of energy metabolism is frequently used in neurocritical care, very few data on monoamine neurotransmitters, such as serotonin (5-HT), have been reported using clinical microdialysis. Consequently, taking the opportunity of a feasibility study for a project on TBI, we sought to determine 5-HT levels in the brain microdialysis samples obtained from a TBI patient, concomitantly with biomarkers of energy metabolism.