Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether maternal hypertension affects fetal brain maturation, and examine treatment with magnesium sulfate has a protective effect on the brain. Methods: A total 26 fetuses, including 11 dead fetuses pregnant women who were found have whose pregnancy terminated due reason, 15 did not risk factor but died for various reasons as control group, ...

Some people who have survived a life-threatening crisis report an extraordinary experience. Near-death experiences (NDE) occur with increasing frequency because of improved survival rates resulting from modern techniques of resuscitation. The content of NDE and the effects on patients seem similar worldwide, across all cultures and times. The subjective nature and absence of a frame of referenc...

Results: There were 228 patients who were pronounced brain dead, mostly after traumatic brain injury, cerebral hematoma, or aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Brain death was declared within 24 hours of ictus in 30% of the patients and within 3 days in 62%. All patients were using one or more vasopressors, and 61% of the patients received vasopressin for diabetes insipidus. An apnea test could...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of spiral CT in the diagnosis of brain death. METHODS Spiral CT was evaluated prospectively in 14 brain-dead patients and in 11 healthy subjects. A two-phase protocol was used. Twenty seconds after intravenous injection of a nonionic iodinized contrast medium, the CT table was drawn through the gantry at a rate of 10 mm/s while sc...