Marks M P, Steinberg G K, Lane B
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1993 Jul-Aug;14(4):822-6.
The authors describe the use of intraarterial papaverine to treat vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage. Two cases are reported: a 40-year-old woman with a posterior communicating artery aneurysm and a 67-year-old man with a posterior cerebral artery aneurysm. Both patients developed symptomatic, angiographically demonstrated vasospasm that responded to papaverine infusion.