A Rare Syndrome After Intracranial Hemorrhage Operation: Ogilvie Syndrome

Incidence of Intracranial Hemorrhage After a Cranial Operation

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of patients who underwent a cranial operation and postoperatively suffered an intracranial hemorrhage significant enough to require evacuation. MATERIALS & METHODS : 3,109 cranial operations were performed at Houston Methodist Hospital (Texas Medical Center campus) between January 2009 and December 2013. Of these, 59 cases required a second operation fo...

Ogilvie syndrome after use of vincristine: tomographic findings

manifests clinically as a yellowish mass in the lateral corner of the eye, which becomes more evident with retropulsion of the globe. The imaging tests that can facilitate the diagnosis of subconjunctival fat prolapse are CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the orbits, the most important radiological finding being that of a mass with fat density or fat-like signal intensity, respectively...

Holt-Oram Syndrome: A Rare Variant

Holt-Oram syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, characterised by skeletal abnormalities of the upper limb associated with congenital heart defect, mainly atrial and ventricular septal defects. Skeletal defects exclusively affect the upper limbs in the preaxial radial ray distribution and are bilateral and asymmetrical. They range from clinodactyly, absent or digitalised thumb, hypoplastic...

Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome) with Chilaiditi syndrome.

[Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction or Ogilvie syndrome].

Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction is a clinical condition with the symptoms, signs and radiological appearances of acute large bowel obstruction but without any apparent mechanical cause. The mortality rate for patients undergoing surgery was 57%. The incidence of caecal-perforation was 1 for 7 patients. The pathogenesis of the syndrome is unknown but in more then 80% of cases many conditions th...