The prognostic value of gray-white-matter ratio in cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Scheel, Michael ^a   Storm, Christian ^a   Gentsch, Andre ^a   Nee, Jens ^a   Luckenbach, Fridolin ^a   Ploner, Christoph J ^a   Leithner, Christoph ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Computed tomography; Gray white matter ratio; Hypothermia; Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ENOLASE;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAY MATTER; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84875839914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-21-23     Document Type: Article

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