Journal article
Endovascular treatment of severe vasospasm in nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage
Neurocritical care, Vol.15(3), pp.537-541
12/2011
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-011-9548-1
PMID: 21528398
Abstract
Nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has usually a benign prognosis and uneventful course; however, recent reports suggest that these patients may develop severe symptomatic vasospasm.
Description of the clinical course of one patient with nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic SAH who required intraarterial infusion of calcium antagonists and transluminal balloon angioplasty for treatment of symptomatic vasospasm. The perimesencephalic clot burden was quantified to determine if there is a relationship with the development of symptomatic vasospasm.
Despite maximized clinical management, the patient described in this report developed vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), requiring multiple endovascular interventions. The volumetric quantification of subarachnoid blood was 15.4 ml, and was mostly localized in the cisternal space.
Nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic SAH may have a "malignant" course requiring close neurocritical care monitoring and multiple clinical and endovascular interventions. Moreover, large cisternal hemorrhage was correlated with the development of DCI in this patient with non-aneurysmal SAH.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Endovascular treatment of severe vasospasm in nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Creators
- Edgar A Samaniego - Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute, 8900 N Kendall Drive, Miami, FL 33176, USA. edgarsama@gmail.comGuilherme DabusKarel FuentesItalo Linfante
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurocritical care, Vol.15(3), pp.537-541
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12028-011-9548-1
- PMID
- 21528398
- ISSN
- 1541-6933
- eISSN
- 1556-0961
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2011
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Radiology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984020656102771
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