Variable presentations of postpartum angiopathy

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 670-676

  Fugate, Jennifer E ^a   Ameriso, Sebastián F ^b   Ortiz, Gustavo ^c   Schottlaender, Lucia V ^b   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Flemming, Kelly D ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b FLENI   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; eclampsia; intracranial hemorrhage; postpartum angiopathy; PRES; reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; women

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; MAGNESIUM; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTPARTUM ANGIOPATHY; POSTPARTUM HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOGENIC EDEMA; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOCONSTRICTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857644946     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.639575     Document Type: Article

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