Nonrecurring transient cortical blindness after coronary angiography: A role for hypoventilation and hypercarbia?

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 384-385

  Danenberg, Haim D ^a   Lotan, Chaim ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angiography; Complications; Radiocontrast

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOVENTILATION; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; SHOULDER PAIN; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOVENTILATION; MALE;

EID: 33644755465     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20635     Document Type: Article

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