Neurovascular pulsatile compression and neurosurgical decompression of the rostral ventrolateral medulla in medically resistant hypertensive patients

Kidney and Blood Pressure Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 433-437

  Legrady, Peter ^a   Voros, Erika ^a   Bajcsi, Dora ^a   Sonkodi, Sandor ^a   Barzo, Pal ^a   Abraham, Gyorgy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Compression; Decompression; Hypertension; Medulla; Neurovascular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL DECOMPRESSION; NEUROVASCULAR PULSATILE COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE;

EID: 58349112385     PISSN: 14204096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000195696     Document Type: Article

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