Long-Term Results After Microvascular Decompression in Essential Hypertension
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Long-term results after microvascular decompression in essential hypertension.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In 1998, 8 patients with severe, intractable arterial hypertension and MR tomography-demonstrated neurovascular contact of a looping artery at the root entry zone of cranial nerves IX and X, causing neurovascular compression, underwent neurosurgical decompression. The short-term results showed a normalization of blood pressure with a markedly reduced antihypertensive drug...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/hs1201.099799