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Vasospasm, Intracranial

"Vasospasm, Intracranial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Constriction of arteries in the SKULL due to sudden, sharp, and often persistent smooth muscle contraction in blood vessels. Intracranial vasospasm results in reduced vessel lumen caliber, restricted blood flow to the brain, and BRAIN ISCHEMIA that may lead to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vasospasm, Intracranial" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Vasospasm, Intracranial" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 122 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2014
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.