Endovascular treatment for a unusually large mycotic aneurysm manifesting as intracerebral hemorrhage - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 544-547

  Hara, Yoshie ^a   Hosoda, Kohkichi ^a   Wada, Taro ^a   Kimura, Hidehito ^a   Kohmura, Eiji ^b  

^a Kobe Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Endovascular treatment; Mycotic cerebral aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; ANEURYSM; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FRONTAL LOBE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOCARDITIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947145702     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.544     Document Type: Article

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