Malignant middle cerebral artery infarction

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-163

  Wartenberg, Katja E ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebral edema; decompression; hemicraniectomy; malignant MCA infarction; malignant stroke

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; SARUPLASE;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICRODIALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT MONITORING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858795012     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32835075c5     Document Type: Review

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