Blood pressure in intracerebral hemorrhage - How low should we go?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 2426-2427

  Frontera, Jennifer A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; NICARDIPINE; URAPIDIL;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANKIN SCALE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 84879076812     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1305047     Document Type: Editorial

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