Preoperative APACHE II and GCS scores as predictors of outcomes in patients with malignant MCA infarction after decompressive hemicraniectomy

Neurology India

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 608-612

  Tsai, Chia Lin ^a   Chu, Hsin ^a,b   Peng, Giia Sheun ^a   Ma, Hsin I ^c   Cheng, Chun An ^a   Hueng, Dueng Yuan ^c,d  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Taiwan)

^b Georgetown Univ School of Medicine   (Taiwan)

^c TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

APACHE; Decompressive hemicraniectomy; Glasgow coma scale; Malignant middle cerebral artery infarction; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE HEMICRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANKIN SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872175354     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.105195     Document Type: Article

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