Clinical Manifestations of Intracranial Hypertension and Herniation Syndrome

Prevalence of clinical manifestations of premenstrual syndrome and

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of clinical manifestations of PMS and its severe from, PMDD by considering somatic and mood symptoms during two consecutive menstrual cycles in students of Bandar Abbas Medical University at 2000. Methods: We conducted a prospective randomized descriptive study on 302 students by preparing and distributing questionnaires a...

Posttraumatic Refractory Intracranial Hypertension and Brain Herniation Syndrome: Cerebral Hemodynamic Assessment before Decompressive Craniectomy

BACKGROUND The pathophysiology of traumatic brain swelling remains little understood. An improved understanding of intracranial circulatory process related to brain herniation may have treatment implications. OBJECTIVE To investigate the cerebral hemodynamic changes associated with brain herniation syndrome due to traumatic brain swelling. METHODS Nineteen head-injured patients with evidenc...

Emergency Neurological Life Support: Intracranial Hypertension and Herniation.

Sustained intracranial hypertension and acute brain herniation are "brain codes," signifying catastrophic neurological events that require immediate recognition and treatment to prevent irreversible injury and death. As in cardiac arrest, a brain code mandates the organized implementation of a stepwise management algorithm. The goal of this emergency neurological life support protocol is to imp...

Clinical Manifestations of Portal Hypertension

The portal hypertension is responsible for many of the manifestations of liver cirrhosis. Some of these complications are the direct consequences of portal hypertension, such as gastrointestinal bleeding from ruptured gastroesophageal varices and from portal hypertensive gastropathy and colopathy, ascites and hepatorenal syndrome, and hypersplenism. In other complications, portal hypertension p...

Intracranial Herniation Syndromes