Cerebrovascular reactivity to acetazolamide in alert patients with cerebral infarction: Usefulness of first-pass radionuclide angiography using 99mtc-hmpao in monitoring cerebral haemodynamics

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1119-1122

  Chang, C C ^a   Kanno, H ^b   Yamamoto, I ^b   Kuwana, N ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide; Cerebral infarction; Cerebrovascular reactivity; Technetium 99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0034747977     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200110000-00010     Document Type: Review

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