Cerebrospinal fluid and plasma nitrite and nitrate concentrations after head injury in humans

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1243-1251

  Clark, Robert S B ^a,b   Kochanek, Patrick M ^a,b   Obrist, Walter D ^b   Wong, Hector R ^b   Billiar, Timothy R ^b   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^b   Marion, Donald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; cerebrospinal fluid; critical illness; Glasgow Coma Scale; head injury; hypothermia; neurologic emergencies; nitrate; nitric oxide; nitrite

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INJURY SCALE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0030014264     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199607000-00030     Document Type: Article

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