The use of antifibrinolytic drugs in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Schisano, G.
Surgical Neurology 10(4): 217-222
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0090-3019 PMID: 725719 Document Number: 137620
Antifibrinolytic drugs have been investigated in a series of 58 patients with recent aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. It is concluded that tranexamic acid (AMCA) provides a rational method for reducing the frequency of recurrences, and that antifibrinolytic treatment is a preliminary to surgical intervention. In the present series, ischemic complications, which often follow aneurysmal hemmorrhage, seem to be of a more serious nature. There is evidence also that hydrocephalus due to adhesive arachnoiditis is a rare occurrence. The last 20 patients of the present series have been treated with very low doses of AMCA associated with parotid kallikrein inhibitor (Trasylol); this dosage has been effective in preventing recurrence and has appeared to be freer from severe side effects.