Increased cortisol levels are associated with delayed cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-345

  Vergouwen, Mervyn D I ^a   Van Geloven, Nan ^a   De Haan, Rob J ^a   Kruyt, Nyika D ^a   Vermeulen, Marinus ^a   Roos, Yvo B W E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Delayed cerebral ischemia; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; SIMVASTATIN; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 77955097260     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9331-8     Document Type: Article

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