Background: Cerebral autoregulation (CA) continuously adjusts cerebrovascular resistance to maintain cerebral blood flow (CBF) constant despite changes in blood pressure. Also, CBF is proportional to changes in arterial carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) (cerebrovascular CO 2 reactivity). Hypercapnia elicits cerebral vasodilation that attenuates CA efficacy, while hypocapnia produces cerebral vasoconstriction that enhances CA efficacy. In this study, we quantified the influence of sevoflurane anesthesia on CO 2 reactivity and the CA-CO 2 relationship.

Methods: We studied patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), prone to cerebrovascular disease, and compared them to control subjects. In 33 patients (19 DM, 14 control), end-tidal CO 2 , blood pressure, and CBF velocity were monitored awake and during sevoflurane-based anesthesia. CA, calculated with transfer function analysis assessing phase lead (degrees) between low-frequency oscillations in CBF velocity and mean arterial blood pressure, was quantified during hypocapnia, normocapnia, and hypercapnia.

Results: In both control and DM patients, awake CO 2 reactivity was smaller (2.8%/mm Hg CO 2 ) than during sevoflurane anesthesia (3.9%/mm Hg; P <0.005). Hyperventilation increased CA efficacy more (3 deg./mm Hg CO 2 ) in controls than in DM patients (1.8 deg./mm Hg CO 2 ; P <0.001) in both awake and sevoflurane-anesthetized states.

Conclusions: The CA-CO 2 relationship is impaired in awake patients with type 2 DM. Sevoflurane-based anesthesia does not further impair this relationship. In patients with DM, hypocapnia induces cerebral vasoconstriction, but CA efficacy does not improve as observed in healthy subjects.

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