Effects of blood pressure lowering in the acute phase of total anterior circulation infarcts and other stroke subtypes

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-243

  Ahmed, Niaz ^a   Wahlgren, Nils Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Cerebral ischaemia; Cerebrovascular disease; Classification; Nimodipine; Outcome; Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project; Stroke subtype

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIMODIPINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037265546     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069498     Document Type: Article

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