The severity of ischemia determines and predicts malignant brain edema in patients with large middle cerebral artery infarction

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Dohmen, Christian ^a,b   Galldiks, Norbert ^b,c   Bosche, Bert ^a,b   Kracht, Lutz ^a   Graf, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Emission tomography; Ischemic stroke; Malignant infarction

Indexed keywords

FLUMAZENIL C 11;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82655179100     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330648     Document Type: Article

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