Feasibility and safety of intrathecal nimodipine on posthaemorrhagic cerebral vasospasm refractory to medical and endovascular therapy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 784-790

  Hänggi, Daniel ^a   Beseoglu, Kerim ^a   Turowski, Bernd ^a   Steiger, Hans Jakob ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Intrathecal nimodipine lavage; Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NIMODIPINE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 49749111103     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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