Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: Treatment with combined intra-arterial verapamil infusion and intracranial angioplasty

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Farid, Hamed ^a   Tatum, J K ^a   Wong, C ^a   Halbach, V V ^a   Hetts, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 80051835249     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2341     Document Type: Article

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