The diagnosis of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has become precise with the advent of computerized tomography (CT). Little, however, is known concerning the long-term prognosis. Seventy consecutive patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage (all known etiologies except hypertension excluded) proven by CT scan were studied. Follow up, averaging 2 1/2 years, was successful in all cases. The s...

A long term follow up study of 100 children referred with recurrent haematuria for at least one year to two regional paediatric nephrology units is described. The mean duration of follow up was 8.2 years. An adequate renal biopsy was obtained in 96 and eight cases of Alport's syndrome and 10 of IgA nephropathy were diagnosed (20% and 26% respectively of the biopsies examined by electron microsc...

The purpose of this survey was to investigate the likelihood of return t0 normal life and employment in patients who had suffered a head injury causing impaired consciousness for over twenty-four hours. In order to confine the study to those in whom unconsciousness could be attributed to direct injury to the brain at the time of the accident, patients with intracrania' haematoma resulting in ce...

BACKGROUND Many people with depression experience repeated episodes. Previous research into the predictors of chronic depression has focused primarily on the clinical features of the disease; however, little is known about the broader spectrum of sociodemographic and health factors inherent in its development. Our aim was to identify factors associated with a long-term negative prognosis of dep...

Maternal fever and neural tube defects c Maternal hyperthermia during the first trimester seems to contribute to an increased risk for neural tube defects (NTDs). Animal studies in the 1980s suggested that fever might lead to NTDs; in humans, however, this association was harder to confirm. A case-control study was undertaken to investigate an epidemic of NTDs near the Mexican border in Texas. ...

Although delirium has been described as a transient syndrome characterized by disordered attention, thinking and perception, as well as other symptoms, recent research has documented the heterogeneity of the clinical course of delirium and high rates of persistence of delirium symptoms for up to 12 months.1-5 Furthermore, delirium appearsto be an important indicator of various adverse outcomes ...