Increased sympathetic nervous activity in patients with nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage.

• Activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which leads to elevation of circulating catecholamines, is implicated in the genesis of cerebral vasospasm and cardiac aberrations after subarachnoid hemorrhage. To this juncture, sympathetic nervous testing has relied on indirect methods only.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Anestesi och intensivvård (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Adult

Aged

Female

Humans

Indicator Dilution Techniques

Intracranial Pressure

Kinetics

Male

Middle Aged

Norepinephrine

blood

Reference Values

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

complications

physiopathology

Sympathetic Nervous System

physiopathology

Time Factors

Vasospasm

Intracranial

etiology

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