a preterm female baby with birth weight of 1.5kg was referred to our hospital on day 6 for difficulty in breathing. baby was admitted at birth for respiratory distress and feed intolerance to other hospital and in view of clinical deterioration baby was referred. baby had thrombocytopenia with platelets counts of 11000/ mm3 and high crp titer. baby had petechial haemorrhagic spots all over the ...

PURPOSE To study the visual prognosis in eyes with symptomatic retinal arterial macroaneurysm (RAM). METHODS Medical records were retrospectively reviewed for 62 patients (65 eyes) with symptomatic RAM. RESULTS The median visual acuity at presentation was 0.4 for eyes with vitreous hemorrhage (n=6), 0.01 for eyes with premacular hemorrhage (n=9), 0.1 for eyes with submacular hemorrhage with...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical evolution of perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage and non-perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage. METHODS The study was conducted retrospectively in a tertiary hospital center in the north region of Portugal. Included patients had no identifiable cause for subarachnoid hemorrhage. Several epidemiologic, clinical and imaging aspects were statistically ...

Zhang et al. reviewed iPhone and Android applications using search terms “stroke prevention”. We agree with their impression that mobile phone applications can serve as readily accessible source of healthcare information for general public. In our study, Apple iTunes and Android Google Play Store were searched for stroke-related applications using terms “stroke, brain attack, intracranial hemor...

BACKGROUND Nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic hemorrhage, a distinct form of subarachnoid hemorrhage, is a recently described variant of intracranial hemorrhage. We describe two patients who presented with unusual features of this type of subarachnoid hemorrhage and also two patients who had a perimesencephalic pattern of hemorrhage due to a ruptured posterior circulation aneurysm. CASE DESCRIPT...

BACKGROUND Emergency endoscopy for every patient with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is not possible in many medical centers. Simple guidelines to select patients for emergency endoscopy are lacking. The aim of the present report is to develop a simple scoring system to classify upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGIH) severity based on patient clinical profiles at the emergency departments....

objective: this study was performed for evaluation of accuracy of fetal weight estimation by clinical & ultrasonographic methods in iranian population . meterial & method:this prospective study was conducted on two hundred preg .nant mothers that reffered to obstetric department during years 1378 & 1379 . findings:our study showed that there was statistically significant difference between clin...

background hysteroscopy is the gold standard method for diagnosis of intrauterine pathologies. current study is a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). objective the aim of this study was a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). patients ...