Patient age and vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 911-917

  Ryttlefors, Mats ^a   Enblad, Per ^a   Ronne Engström, Elisabeth ^a   Persson, Lennart ^a   Ilodigwe, Don ^b   Macdonald, R Loch ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Cerebral vasospasm; Delayed ischemic neurological deficits; Elderly; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

CLAZOSENTAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; DIOXANES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRIDINES; PYRIMIDINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SULFONAMIDES; TETRAZOLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958018006     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181ed11ab     Document Type: Article

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