Role of intraventricular sodium nitroprusside in vasospasm secondary to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: A 5-year prospective study with review of the literature

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-8

  Agrawal, A ^a,b   Patir, R ^a   Kato, Y ^b   Chopra, S ^a   Sano, H ^b   Kanno, T ^b  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delayed cerebral vasospasm; Intraventricular sodium nitroprusside; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDE POISONING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT MONITORING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; ECHOGRAPHY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 65449160999     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: 14392291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1085454     Document Type: Article

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