Attempts at prevention or treatment of intracranial arterial spasm: an update.

Numerous approaches to the prevention and treatment of intracranial arterial spasm have been made during the past three decades. In the present article, the author has assembled data about such attempts that were not included in a similar compilation published in 1980. Since 1980, there has been some progress toward the satisfactory management of this detrimental condition, but much remains to be done.