Intra-arterial nimodipine for severe cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Influence on clinical course and cerebral perfusion

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1053-1060

  Hänggi, Daniel ^a   Turowski, B ^a   Beseoglu, K ^a   Yong, M ^a   Steiger, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DRUG EFFECT; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIMODIPINE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 46749108848     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1005     Document Type: Article

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