Transient encephalopathy from angiographic contrast: A rare complication in neurointerventional procedures

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 383-388

  Guimaraens, Leopoldo ^a   Vivas, Elio ^a   Fonnegra, Andrés ^a   Sola, Teresa ^a   Soler, Lluis ^a   Balaguer, Ernest ^a   Medrano, Jaime ^a   Gandolfo, Carlo ^a   Casasco, Alfredo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Clinica Nuestra Senora del Rosario   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Contrast; Cortical edema; Neurotoxicity; Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISORIENTATION; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953137548     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9609-4     Document Type: Article

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