Hydrocephalus after spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Corticosteroid therapy of experimental hydrocephalus after intraventricular-subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Symptomatic hydrocephalus after subarachnoid haemorrhage seems to result both from mechanical obstruction of arachnoid villi and basilar cisterns and from an inflammatory cellular reaction in the villi. Subarachnoid haemorrhage was induced in rabbits using whole blood injected through an implanted intraventricular needle. Control rabbits receiving intraventricular methyl prednisolone acetate bu...

Acute hydrocephalus after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

This issue of Stroke includes an important discussion of acute hydrocephalus after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), contributed by a group of investigators from The Netherlands who have made several important recent contributions to our understanding of the pathophysiology of SAH. The data of Hasan et al, derived from a careful study of 473 consecutive patients with SAH admitted within 72 hours a...

Lumbar puncture in spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Seventy-four patients with proved spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage were studied. Sixty-four underwent computed tomography and 55 underwent lumbar puncture. Seven cases deteriorated dramatically after lumbar puncture, six of these showing evidence of cerebral dislocation on further investigation. Four of the seven had not undergone computed tomography and three underwent computed tomography ...

Haemoglobin scavenging after subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Rapid and effective clearance of cell-free haemoglobin after subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is important to prevent vasospasm and neurotoxicity and improve long-term outcome. Haemoglobin is avidly bound by haptoglobin, and the complex is cleared by CD163 expressed on the membrane surface of macrophages. We studied the kinetics of haemoglobin and haptoglobin in cerebrospinal fluid after SAH. We ...

Biochemical changes after spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage. 3. Coagulation and lysis with special reference to recurrent haemorrhage.