Acute decompressive hemicraniectomy to control high intracranial pressure in patients with malignant MCA ischemic strokes

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 225-232

  Wang, David Z ^a   Nair, Deepak S ^a   Talkad, Arun V ^a  

^a OSF Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; HETASTARCH; MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACIDOSIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANURIA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SURGERY; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHILL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONVULSION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECOMPRESSIVE HEMICRANIECTOMY; DEHYDRATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DUROTOMY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEART FAILURE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHLEBITIS; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THIRST; THORAX PAIN; TISSUE NECROSIS; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

EID: 79955835268     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-011-0121-1     Document Type: Article

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