Is prediction of outcome with magnetic resonance imaging in postresuscitation coma achievable and accurate?

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 364-366

  Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Cloft, Harry J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MIDAZOLAM;

ANESTHESIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAY MATTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; METHODOLOGY; NECROSIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

BRAIN; COMA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 65649125965     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21671     Document Type: Editorial

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