Lethal subarachnoid bleeding under immunosuppressive therapy due to mycotic arteritis

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2003, Pages

  Weigel, Stefanie ^a   Kloska, Stephan ^a   Kehl, Hans Gerd ^a   Freund, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic angiography; Digital subtraction angiography; Mycotic arteritis; Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISOLONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEADACHE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THALAMUS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERITIS; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHILD; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERITIS; ASPERGILLOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THALAMUS;

EID: 0347519326     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1741-3     Document Type: Article

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