Fulminant postpartum cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-117

  Fugate, Jennifer E ^a   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a   Kallmes, David F ^a   Cloft, Harry J ^a   Flemming, Kelly D ^a   Giraldo, Elias A ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NIMODIPINE; PENTOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASOPRESSIN; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGITATION; APNEA; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BABINSKI REFLEX; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMA; CONFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATERNAL DISEASE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MIGRAINE; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYURIA; POSTPARTUM CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMNOLENCE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASOCONSTRICTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855574298     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.811     Document Type: Article

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