Intra-arterial milrinone for reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Headache

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-145

  Bouchard, Manon ^a   Verreault, Steve ^a   Gariépy, Jean Luc ^a   Dupré, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Headache; Milrinone; Reversible; Thunderclap; Vasoconstriction; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; MILRINONE; NIMODIPINE; NORADRENALIN BITARTRATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PREDNISONE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MILRINONE; PREDNISONE; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 58149215912     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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