Transcranial doppler pulsatility index: Not an accurate method to assess intracranial pressure

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1050-1057

  Behrens, Anders ^a   Lenfeldt, Niklas ^a   Ambarki, Khalid ^a   Malm, Jan ^a   Eklund, Anders ^a   Koskinen, Lars Owe ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocity; Hydrocephalus; Intracranial pressure; Middle cerebral artery; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 77952966777     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000369519.35932.F2     Document Type: Article

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