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Epidemiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America - 1 Apr 2010
Zacharia Brad E, Hickman Zachary L, Grobelny Bartosz T, DeRosa Peter, Kotchetkov Ivan, Ducruet Andrew F, Connolly E Sander
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Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is a form of hemorrhagic stroke that affects up to 30,000 individuals per year in the United States. The incidence of aSAH has been shown to be associated with numerous nonmodifiable (age, gender, ethnicity, family history, aneurysm location, size) and modifiable (hypertension, body mass index, tobacco and illicit drug use) risk factors. Although early repair of ruptured...
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