Potential role of PMD-TCD monitoring in the management of hemodynamically unstable intracranial stenosis

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 305-307

  Palazzo, Paola ^a,b   Barlinn, Kristian ^a,c   Balucani, Clotilde ^a   Zhao, Limin ^a   Prestley, Timothy W ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Basilar artery occlusion; Hypervolemic hemodilution; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXTRAN 40;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODILUTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MONITORING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; SYMPTOM; TRANSCRANIAL POWER MOTION DOPPLER; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ANTICOAGULANTS; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; HEMODILUTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84863768869     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2010.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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