Response to Letter Regarding Article by Banki et al, 'Acute Neurocardiogenic Injury After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage'

Authors :: Michael T. Lawton
Poyee P. Tung
Jacob C. Miss
Barbara J. Drew
Elyse Foster
Wade S. Smith
Jonathan G. Zaroff
Nader M. Banki
William W. Parmley
Michael W. Dae
Alexander Kopelnik
Source :: Circulation. 113
Publication Year :: 2006
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2006.
Abstract: We were very interested to read Dr Gnecchi-Ruscone’s comments regarding our article.1 Similar to stress cardiomyopathy (SC), elevated catecholamine levels are frequently observed after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).2 In our series, the mean plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 129±102 pg/mL and 372±494 pg/mL, respectively.3 The majority of the levels are lower than those reported for SC, …

Subjects :: Norepinephrine (medication)
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
business.industry
Physiology (medical)
Anesthesia
medicine
Catecholamine
Cardiomyopathy
Plasma epinephrine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
medicine.disease
business
medicine.drug

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