What is ICV dosing?

Intracerebroventricular drug administration is a method that bypasses the blood-brain barrier and other mechanisms that limit drug distribution into the brain, allowing high drug concentrations to enter the central compartment.

What is ICV infusion?

Intracerebroventricular Drug Infusion Intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusion helps bypass the BBB by permitting high concentrations of a drug to directly reach the central compartment of the brain. 21. For ICV drug infusion, a plastic drug reservoir can also be implanted subcutaneously in the scalp.

What is ICV route?

Intrathecal delivery methods include intracerebroventricular (ICV), intrathecal-lumbar and intracisternal routes. The ICV route enables the administration of drugs into a lateral cerebral ventricle via an implanted device (reservoir and catheter).

How does intracerebral injection work?

Intracerebral (i.c.) injections are made into brain tissue and generally require stereotaxic implantation of microinjection guide sleeves in order to deliver the drug to a specific locus in the brain. Intrathecal (i.t.) injections are made into the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the spinal cord.

What is ICM injection?

For intra-cisterna magna (ICM) delivery, an established dose of therapeutic virus is injected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-filled subarachnoid space between the cerebellum and the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

What is intraspinal injection?

Overview. In intrathecal drug delivery, pain medications and/or medications used for spasticity are introduced directly to the spinal fluid (intrathecal space) through a drug delivery system comprised of a pump and catheter.

What is the meaning of intraventricular?

Definition of intraventricular : situated within, occurring within, or administered into a ventricle intraventricular hemorrhage.

Can the brain be injected?

Beyond the Blood–Brain Barrier Intracerebral injection is the most direct method for drug delivery to the target site. In this method, intermittent bolus injections are administered locally in the brain, where the drugs are diffused with minimal systemic exposure and toxicity (Bergonzi et al., 2016; Greig, 1987).

What is back injection?

A spinal injection is a special shot administered directly into the bone mass of the spine. There are a few different kinds of spinal injections, but each has some common basics. First, all are administered under the direction of x-ray support.

What is intrapleural injection?

An intrapleural drug is injected through the chest wall into the pleural space or instilled through a chest tube placed intrapleurally for drainage. Doctors use intrapleural administration to promote analgesia, treat spontaneous pneumothorax, resolve pleural effusions, and administer chemotherapy.

What is intraventricular meningioma?

Intraventricular meningiomas are rare tumors usually encountered in adults and are somewhat distinct from the far more common extra-ventricular meningioma. On imaging, they classically present as vividly enhancing solid mass at the trigone of the lateral ventricles.