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With the development of acute efficacious means of treatment of subarachnoid haemorrhage by operative or endovascular means, it is important to prevent and monitor the occurrence of late events such as vasospasm. Indeed, cerebral vasospasm is the cause of delayed ischemic deterioration in a subset of patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage. Methods such as cerebral angiography or transcranial doppler sonography [15] have been used to demonstrate its presence. Functional studies have been performed with SPECT and PET [9] and MRI was primarily used as an anatomical correlate [10, 11] for late cerebral dysfunction. In order to be able to acutely assess and select the patients suspected of suffering from vasospasm ischemia, it is necessary to dispose of a sensitive and specific modality that is able to both detect acutely ischemia and to exclude other causes of brain dysfunction.
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Lövblad, KO. et al. (2001). Diffusion-Weighted and Perfusion-Weighted MR of Cerebral Vasospasm. In: Seiler, R.W., Steiger, HJ. (eds) Cerebral Vasospasm. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplements, vol 77. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6232-3_26
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