METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL VASOSPASM Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, neurosurgery. SUBSTANCE: the suggested method deals with treating patients with developed secondary cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoidal hemorrhage as a result of arterial aneurism rupture of cerebral vessels. One should carry out clipping of arterial aneurism simultaneously with applying extraintracranial microvascular anastomosis (EICMA) between the branch of ipsilateral surface temporal artery and cortical branch of middle cerebral artery. Therapy course should be conducted including maintenance of systolic arterial pressure being 25-30% higher against "working" one and normovolemic variant of hemodilution. Moreover, minimum volume of infusion should be performed in nocturnal hours, and ratio of enterally injected liquid and intravenous infusion should be maintained to be 1: 6 during the 1st d, and then - 1:2. EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy. 1 cl, 1 ex