Nicardipine prolonged-release implants for preventing cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage: Effect and outcome in the first 100 patients

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 389-394

  Krischek, Boris ^a,b,d   Kasuya, Hidetoshi ^a   Onda, Hideaki ^c   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Kofu Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Delayed ischemic neurological deficit; Intracranial aneurysm; Nicardipine; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

NICARDIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG IMPLANT; DRUG RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARDIPINE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 35148877316     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.389     Document Type: Article

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