Arterial cerebrovascular complications in 94 adults with acute bacterial meningitis

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Klein, Matthias ^a   Koedel, Uwe ^a   Pfefferkorn, Thomas ^a   Zeller, Grete ^a   Woehrl, Bianca ^a   Pfister, Hans Walter ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE; NIMODIPINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERIAL CEREBROVASCULAR COMPLICATION; ARTERIAL NARROWING; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CEREBRAL ARTERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STIFF NECK; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADULT; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 81555231190     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10565     Document Type: Article

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