Sex Differences in the Formation of Intracranial Aneurysms and Incidence and Outcome of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Review of Experimental and Human Studies

Translational Stroke Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 12-19

  Turan, Nefize ^a   Heider, Robert Allen James ^a   Zaharieva, Dobromira ^a   Ahmad, Faiz U ^a   Barrow, Daniel L ^a   Pradilla, Gustavo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial aneurysm; Sex differences; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SHEAR STRESS; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THERAPY EFFECT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MICE; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84955347802     PISSN: 18684483     EISSN: 1868601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12975-015-0434-6     Document Type: Review

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