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Stellate ganglion blocktherapy for cerebral vascular accidents
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EditorUsing anterior paratracheal stellate ganglion blocks (APSGB), Gupta and colleagues1 found that it ... decreases cerebral vascular tone without affecting the capacity of cerebral blood vessels to react to the changes in carbon dioxide or to autoregulate. And, proposed that these results suggested that APSGB ... may have a therapeutic role in patients where cerebral insufficiency can be attributed to cerebral vasospasm.
Nottingham, UK
E-mail: Ravi.mahajan@nottingham.ac.uk