Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) 1) lacerates the brain parenchyma and disrupts white matter tracts; 2) causes mass effect and disturbs the function of neighboring white matter tracts or cortical regions; and 3) releases molecules that induce inflammation and oxidative stress, which creates a tissue microenvironment that predisposes to death of neurons. Because of the aforementioned deleterious e...

OBJECTIVES To assess the associations between preoperative treatment with 5-alpha reductase inhibitors and the risks of blood transfusion during transurethral resection of the prostate and blood clot evacuation or emergency department visits for hematuria within 1 month after surgery. METHODS We used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database in this population-based coh...

THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY The patient made an uncomplicated recovery, her haemothorax resolved and she was discharged after seven days. Follow-up examination including an MRI scan of the spine, 13 months later, showed no evidence of recurrence ofthe tumour or of other pathological changes. Discussion. The unusual feature of our patient was the presentation with symptoms of dyspnoea ...

Intracerebral hematoma is a fairly frequently occurring condition and a comprehensive review of the incidence, etiology, and treatment of this type of hematoma has been presented by Craig and Adson.' Although as early as 1903 Cushing4 reported the successful evacuation of an intracerebral dot, only sporadically since then have cases of successful surgical treatment of this type of hematoma been...

Many coastal communities throughout the world are threatened by local (or near-field) tsunamis that could inundate low-lying areas in a matter of minutes after generation. Although the hazard and sustainability literature often frames vulnerability conceptually as a multidimensional issue involving exposure, sensitivity, and resilience to a hazard, assessments often focus on one element or do n...

Acute arterial thromboembolism and venous thrombosis are limb-threatening and potentially life-threatening conditions. Acute arterial thrombus prohibits perfusion to affected limbs, resulting in emergent limb salvage situations. Acute lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common condition that can cause substantial disability, with the most common feared complication being a life-thre...

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer-reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature on demographic, storm-related, and psychosocial correlates of natural disaster evacuation behavior...

Etta D. Pisano , Henry Fuchs, Andrei State, Mark A. Livingston, Gentaro Hirota, William F. Garrett and Mary C. Whitton a Departments of Radiology, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, USA b Computers Science, The University of North Carolina { Chapel Hill School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, Chapel H...