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Avoidance and Treatment of Vasospasm

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Cerebral vasospasm is caused by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) most often secondary to aneurysm rupture. Other less common causes of SAH include hemorrhage from an arteriovenous malformation, vasculitis, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome as well as cerebral trauma.

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  1. Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Martin G. Radvany MD & James Chen BS

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Correspondence to Martin G. Radvany MD .

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Kieran Murphy

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom

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Radvany, M.G., Chen, J. (2014). Avoidance and Treatment of Vasospasm. In: Murphy, K., Robertson, F. (eds) Interventional Neuroradiology. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4582-0_9

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