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A Fatal Strike By an Inverted Cerebral Perfusion Pressure

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Authors: Wang, Xiang; Liu, Yan-Hui; Mao, Qing; You, Chao

Source: Neurosurgery Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 4, November 2015, pp. 568-570(3)

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/WNQ.0000000000000118

This is the first documented case of a most extremely high intracranial pressure recorded by now and an inverted cerebral perfusion pressure at the time of an aneurysm rupture. This case illustrates the challenges of managing patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and the proposes that inverted cerebral perfusion pressure may be a fatal signal for the prognosis.

Keywords: ICP monitor; aneurysm rupture; external ventricular drainage; extremely high intracranial pressure

Document Type: Case Report

Affiliations: Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Publication date: 01 November 2015

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