Cerebral pulsatility index by transcranial Doppler sonography predicts the prognosis of patients with fulminant hepatic failure

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 327-331

  Kawakami, Manri ^a   Koda, Masahiko ^a   Murawaki, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral pulsatility index; Fulminant hepatic failure; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE EXACERBATIONS; CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURES; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PULSATILITY; PULSATILITY INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY;

HYDRODYNAMICS; PATIENT MONITORING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

HEMODYNAMICS;

BETA INTERFERON; LAMIVUDINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956151368     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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