Diagnosing brain death by CT perfusion and multislice CT angiography

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-271

  Escudero, Dolores ^a   Otero, Jesús ^a   Marqués, Lara ^a   Parra, Diego ^a   Gonzalo, José Antonio ^a   Albaiceta, Guillermo M ^a   Cofiño, Luis ^a   Blanco, Armando ^a   Vega, Pedro ^a   Murias, Eduardo ^a   Meilan, Ángela ^a   Roger, Ricardo López ^a   Taboada, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cerebral circulatory arrest; Cerebral computed perfusion; Cerebral computed tomographic angiography; Organ donor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350570446     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-009-9243-7     Document Type: Article

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