HYPERONCOTIC ARTIFICIAL CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND METHOD OF TREATING NEURAL TISSUE EDEMA THEREWITH

摘要

Neural tissue edema is treated by circulating a hyperoncotic artificial cerebrospinal fluid in the cerebrospinal fluid pathway in the vicinity of edematous tissue to cause the edematous tissue to be dehydrated due to an oncotic gradient between the hypertonic artificial cerebrospinal fluid and intracellular fluid and withdrawing the fluid from the pathway after it has been so circulated.