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Acetazolamide (Diamox)

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Acetazolamide (ACZ) is used as a medication to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, pseudotumor cerebri, cystinuria, and hypokalemic periodic paralysis and to diminish edema related to epileptic activity. In addition, acetazolamide is used as part of the acetazolamide challenge test, which can be implemented to evaluate cerebrovascular reserve in patients with chronic cerebrovascular disease.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, USA

    Daniel Lopes Noujaim MD & Juan E. Small MD

  2. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat MD, MS

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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    Juan E. Small

  3. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Noujaim, D.L., Small, J.E., Ginat, D.T. (2015). Acetazolamide (Diamox). In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_44

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