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Administration off label of recombinant factor-VIIa (rFVIIa) to patients with blunt or penetrating brain injury without coagulopathy
Traumatic brain contusions may increase in size over time or may develop at a delay after injury. This may lead to neurological deterioration, long term morbidity or even death. Coagulation disorders after inj...
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Comparison of moderate hyperventilation and mannitol for control of intracranial pressure control in patients with severe traumatic brain injury – a study of cerebral blood flow and metabolism
Objective. To compare the respective effects of established measures used for management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients on cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral metabolic rates...
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Alteration in brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) plasma concentration following severe traumatic brain injury
Background. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a potent natriuretic and vasodilator factor which, by its systemic effects, can decrease cerebral blood flow (CBF). In aneurysmal subarchnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), BNP ...
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Role of brain natriuretic peptide in cerebral vasospasm
¶Background. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a potent natriuretic factor responsible for hyponatremia observed in patients with SAH. Through its systemic effects (reduction of blood volume and blood pressure) ...
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Basilar Vasospasm Following Spontaneous and Traumatic Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: Clinical Implications
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Complex Coloured Visual Hallucinations During Transient Hemianopia
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Altered Excitability of the Motor Cortex after Minor Head Injury Revealed by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Profuse Hemorrhage from Cerebral Vessels in Tangential Missile Injuries
Tangential missile injuries are recognized as a cause of cerebral damage by indriven bone fragments, parenchymal lacerations and intracerebral haematomas. Severe blood loss from this type of injury was not re...
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Suboccipital tangential gunshot wound
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Management of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm-early surgery, late surgery, or modulated surgery?
The management of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm is studied in two consecutive series: an earlier series, including 328 patients admitted from 1972 through 1984, for which the general attitude was delayed ...
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Association of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and cerebral aneurysm. Diagnosis and management
Between 1979 and 1989, 7 patients were admitted, with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and associated aneurysms (7% of the AVM patients and 2% of the aneurysm patients admitted during the same period...
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The incidence of multiple meningiomas—Do solitary meningiomas exist?
Since the advent of computed tomography (CT) the recognition of the occurrence of multiple intracranial meningiomas (MIM) in the same individual has been on the increase. In our material the incidence of MIM a...