Our report serves to highlight Varicella vasculopathy as a rarity not to be overlooked in the differential diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Previous studies of stroke in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have had limited statistical power, combined stroke subtypes into composite outcomes, and lacked a reference population estimate. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies to summarise the stroke subtype-specific risk in patients with SLE compared to the general population. A systematic search...

531 of observation were available for analysis. In total, 46 women had been diagnosed during the follow up period by the consultant responsible for their care as suffering from a first stroke (ICD (8th revision) codes 430-438). Thirteen had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage, of whom four died; eight had an aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation detected by angio-graphy or at necropsy. Two oth...

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) associated with aneurysm have rarely been reported in the literature. The present study reports the case of a 21-year-old pregnant female patient who presented with a subarachnoid hemorrhage and an intracranial hematoma located in the anterior end of the corpus callosum. Furthermore, an anterior cerebral aneurysm and an AVM were identified by digital subtracti...

Lumbar puncture (LP) has for a long time been the mainstay of diagnosis in patients who presented with symptoms or signs of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). At present, computed tomography (CT) has replaced LP for this indication. In this review we shall outline the reasons for this change in diagnostic approach. In the first place, there are drawbacks in starting with an LP. One of these is tha...

Postmortem imaging notably CT, has been embraced in medicolegal death investigation. It allows for non-invasive interrogation of the skull and cranial contents prior to autopsy, forewarning likely findings excluding overt pathology such as fractures, haemorrhage, mass lesions. There are, however, deficiencies postmortem CT part due changes brain at or after death, inherent insensitivity subtle ...

This paper is a direct sequel to that of two of the authors (McKissock and Walsh, 1956) in which evidence was produced to suggest that surgical treatment for ruptured intracranial aneurysm led to a lower mortality rate than the 50% which had been widely accepted as the death rate under conservative treatment. In that paper was collected a series of 108 cases of ruptured aneurysm treated medical...

A pair of identical twins both of whom died of subarachnoid haemorrhage from ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysms are reported. These twins are compared to the three other reported twins with ruptured cerebral aneurysms.

Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to ruptured intracranial aneurysm is very common but there have been few reports of the pathology in brains of fatal cases. The work which has been done has largely been concerned with the distribution of clots and macroscopic infarcts (Robertson, 1949; Wilson, Riggs, and Rupp, 1954; Crompton, 1962). Tomlinson (1959) comments on ischaemic lesions observed macroscopi...