Angiographic and hemodynamic effect of high concentration of intra-arterial nicardipine in cerebral vasospasm

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1080-1086

  Linfante, Italo ^a,d   Delgado Mederos, Raquel ^b   Andreone, Vincenzo ^c   Gounis, Matthew ^a   Hendricks, Laura ^a   Wakhloo, Ajay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Interventional neuroradiology; Intra arterial; Nicardipine; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

NICARDIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MONOTHERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARDIPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 58149475669     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000327698.66596.35     Document Type: Article

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