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. 1993 Jul-Aug;14(4):822-6.

Intraarterial papaverine for the treatment of vasospasm.

M P Marks 1, G K Steinberg 1, B Lane 1
PMCID: PMC8333834  PMID: 8352152

Abstract

The authors describe the use of intraarterial papaverine to treat vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage. Two cases are reported: a 40-year-old woman with a posterior communicating artery aneurysm and a 67-year-old man with a posterior cerebral artery aneurysm. Both patients developed symptomatic, angiographically demonstrated vasospasm that responded to papaverine infusion.

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