Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Oct 1999
Case ReportsEmergency endovascular treatment of a life-threatening hemorrhage from traumatic rupture of the left extracranial vertebral artery.
Hemorrhagic complications from transection of cervical arteries in blunt traumas are rare. We report a case of potentially fatal hemorrhage from rupture of the left vertebral artery in a closed trauma, successfully treated by endovascular injection of glue. Endovascular embolization may be considered as an alternative to surgical exploration in the treatment of traumatic lesions of vertebral arteries.
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Intensive care medicine · Oct 1999
Effect of aerosolized prostacyclin and inhaled nitric oxide on experimental hypoxic pulmonary hypertension.
To compare the effect of different concentrations of inhaled nitric oxide and doses of nebulized prostacyclin on hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in pigs. ⋯ Inhalation of clinically used concentrations of nitric oxide and doses of prostacyclin can decrease elevated pulmonary arterial pressure in an animal model of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction without impairing systemic hemodynamics or gas exchange.