EPO and subarachnoid hemorrhage: Cerebral vasospasm and ischemic brain damage after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) by autologous blood injections into the cisterna magna in rabbits are reduced by EPO administered either by intraperitoneal injections of rhEPO or by delivery of adenoviral vectors encoding the human EPO into cisterna magna immediately after induction of SAH [130-133].