Characterization of functional outcome and quality of life following subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients treated with and without nicardipine prolonged-release implants: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 955-960

  Barth, Martin ^a   Thomé, Claudius ^a   Schmiedek, Peter ^a   Weiss, Christel ^a   Kasuya, Hidetoshi ^b   Vajkoczy, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; Functional outcome; Nicardipine; Quality of life; Stroke; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

NICARDIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG RELEASE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; SHORT FORM 36; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ADOLESCENT; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICARDIPINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66849089784     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.2.17670     Document Type: Article

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