Is lowering blood pressure hazardous in patients with significant ipsilateral carotid stenosis and acute ischaemic stroke? Interim assessment in the 'Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke' Trial

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-25

  Sare, Gillian M ^a   Gray, Laura J ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna ^b   Chen, Christopher ^c   Bath, Philip M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acute ischaemic stroke; Carotid stenosis; Cerebral blood flow; Clinical trial

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGLYCERIN; RECURRENCE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 63149174845     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e32831e30bd     Document Type: Article

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