Neurosurgery
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Predictors of cerebral infarction in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Cerebral infarction would be expected to be associated with poor outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), although there are few data on which to base this assumption. The goals of this study were to determine the impact of cerebral infarction on outcome and to examine predictors of infarction in these patients. ⋯ Cerebral infarction was strongly associated with poor outcome after aneurysmal SAH. The most important potentially treatable factor associated with infarction was symptomatic vasospasm.