Cerebral hemodynamics and autoregulation in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome caused by pre-/eclampsia

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 204-208

  Oehm, Eckard ^a   Hetzel, Andreas ^a   Els, Thomas ^a   Berlis, Ansgar ^a   Keck, Christoph ^a   Will, Hans Gerd ^b   Reinhard, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Clinical Center Villingen Schwenningen   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33746329282     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093810     Document Type: Article

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