| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The number of organ transplantation from the brain dead donor is increasing under the revised organ transplantation law, which has been gone into effect from July, 2010 in Japan. However, cases not to be able to evaluate the brainstem reflex, such as cases with the injury of the eye, or cervical cord, cannot make diagnosis according to the Criteria of brain death in Japan. In the other country, the auditory evoked potential (ABR) or short latency somato-sensory evoked potential (SSEP) is used as the complementary test for the brainstem function. In this study, we discussed about the usefulness of the evoked potential, especially of ABR as the complementary test for the diagnosis of brain death and the serial finding of ABR with the cases suffering from critical intracranial disease admitted to our department. Our study suggested that ABR was important complementary test for the diagnosis of brain death, but was not complete test for the evaluation of the brainstem function.
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