Urgent endarterectomy using pretreatment with free radical scavenger, edaravone, and early clamping of the parent arteries for cervical carotid artery stenosis with crescendo transient ischemic attacks caused by mobile thrombus and hemodynamic cerebral ischemia - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Kobayashi, Masakazu ^a   Ogasawara, Kuniaki ^a   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Saito, Hideo ^a   Komoribayashi, Nobukazu ^a   Suga, Yasunori ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Crescendo transient ischemic attacks; Hemodynamic cerebral ischemia; Mobile thrombus

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ARGATROBAN; HEPARIN; IOFETAMINE I 123; NORPHENAZONE; SCAVENGER;

AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ANTIPYRINE; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33947674780     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.121     Document Type: Article

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