Subarachnoid clot volume correlates with age, neurological grade, and blood pressure

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-266

  Rosen, David S ^a   Amidei, Chris ^a   Tolentino, Jocelyn ^a   Reilly, Christopher ^a   Macdonald, R Loch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Hypertension; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

TIRILAZAD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 33846967761     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249271.56816.03     Document Type: Article

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