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A Volumetric Method for Quantification of Cerebral Vasospasm in a Murine Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Published on: July 28, 2018
Deadly vasospasm
D P H Eijking1, C L A Reichert, A M Wagenvoort
1Department of Intensive Care, Medisch Centrum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, The Netherlands. daaneijking@hotmail.com
Abstract:
A patient with Prinzmetal's variant angina (PVA) developed a cardiac arrest due to coronary vasospasm and subsequent myocardial infarction. After resuscitation postanoxic brain injury was diagnosed. After an initial improvement of consciousness he deteriorated rapidly on the seventh day after admission due to severe brain ischaemia apparently caused by cerebral vasospasm, until ultimately brain death was diagnosed. To our knowledge, the association between PVA and cerebral vasospasm has never been described. The combination suggests that this patient had a generalized vasospastic disorder.
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