Raised intracranial pressure in acute viral encephalitis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 399-406

  Kumar, Gyanendra ^a   Kalita, Jayantee ^b   Misra, Usha Kant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acute viral encephalitis; AVE; ICP; Intracranial hypertension; Intracranial pressure; Osmotherapy

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; MANNITOL; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 67349226107     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2009.03.004     Document Type: Review

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