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Intracranial Venous Thrombosis, Presentation Occlusion of the cerebral veins or dural venous sinuses may present as a stroke syndrome, subarachnoid haemorrhage or as isolated rais...
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, The most common cause of a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. Intracranial aneurysms are now considered to be acquired...
Vitreous Haemorrhage, This includes post-laser or post-vitrectomy recurrent vitreous haemorrhages, vitreous haemorrhage in Tersons' syndrome or after acute PVD and h...
CT or MRI scan if intracranial haemorrhage or other major haemorrhage is suspected. Vitamin K deficiency bleeding treatment and management Immediate management When ...
Raised Intracranial Pressure (Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment), Focal deficit followed by seizures : focal deficit can be associated with a mass lesion and when there is oedema or haemor...
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, In idiopathic intracranial hypertension there is raised pressure within the skull (raised intracranial pressure), which puts pressure ...
Intraventricular Haemorrhage in Babies, What is an intraventricular haemorrhage? A haemorrhage means a bleed - that is blood leaking out of blood vessels into the area su...
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, What is a subarachnoid haemorrhage? A subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) occurs when there is bleeding around the brain into the subarachnoid space....
Subconjunctival Haemorrhage, What is a subconjunctival haemorrhage? Subconjunctival haemorrhage: "Red eye" ...
Vitreous Haemorrhage, What is vitreous haemorrhage? Vitreous haemorrhage occurs when blood leaks into the vitreous humour inside the eye. , Diabetic eye disease Retinal v...
Subconjunctival Haemorrhage (Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment), It is worth noting that a haemorrhage without a posterior margin (ie extends posteriorly so that the whole extent of the hae...
Differential diagnosis The important differential diagnoses are haemorrhagic stroke , including intracranial haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage , and transient ischaemic ...
Intracranial Abscesses, Cerebrospinal fluid: lumbar puncture is rarely helpful (unless required to rule out meningitis) and is contra-indicated if increased intracranial pressure i...
Complications Complications are usually related to haemorrhage, especially intracranial haemorrhage . Prognosis If patients survive the first two years of life, the life...
Postpartum Haemorrhage, The 2011-13 Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity report identified 13 direct deaths due to obstetric haemorrhage in the UK and Ireland, w...
Antepartum Haemorrhage, What is an antepartum haemorrhage? Antepartum haemorrhage (APH) is usually defined as bleeding from the birth canal after the 24th week of pregn...
Neonatal intracranial haemorrhage can be a presenting feature of severe cases as can haematoma and prolonged bleeding from the cord or umbilical area [ 7 ] .
Non-traumatic intracranial haemorrhage - eg, subarachnoid haemorrhage . Unruptured vascular malformation.
The neurological symptoms may also result from the development of the fragile network of moyamoya vessels prone to vascular rupture leading to cerebral haemorrhage. In adults, about half o...
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Synonyms: pseudotumour cerebri, benign intracranial hypertension What is idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)? Raised ...