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A comparative study on the efficacy of 10% hypertonic saline and equal volume of 20% mannitol in the treatment of experimentally induced cerebral edema in adult rats

BACKGROUND: Hypertonic saline and mannitol are commonly used in the treatment of cerebral edema and elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) at present. In this connection, 10% hypertonic saline (HS) alleviates cerebral edema more effectively than the equal volume of 20% mannitol. However, the exact und...

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Autores principales: Zeng, Hong-Ke, Wang, Qiao-Sheng, Deng, Yi-Yu, Jiang, Wen-Qiang, Fang, Ming, Chen, Chun-Bo, Jiang, Xin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-153