Vascular anomalies, either aneurysmal or arteriovenous, figure predominantly as the causative lesions in spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage. Such haemorrhage as the presenting feature of intracranial tumour, although much rarer, is sufficiently well recognized not to cause diagnostic difficulties; _ ,J ablost invariably some evidence of a space-occupying lesion, if not of a pathological circu...

BACKGROUND Variceal bleeding is a frequent cause of death in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Over the past 40 years a number of new techniques have been introduced to control active variceal haemorrhage. Many randomised controlled trials were performed to evaluate these new therapies. While most have demonstrated efficacy in controlling haemorrhage few showed improved survival....

BACKGROUND Small bowel bleeding is a leading indication for small bowel capsule endoscopy. The Suspected Blood Indicator (SBI) is a software feature directed to automatically detect bleeding lesions during small bowel capsule endoscopy. OBJECTIVE - We aimed to assess SBI diagnostic accuracy for small bowel haemorrhage or potentially bleeding lesions during small bowel capsule endoscopy for sm...

THE occurrence of secondary haemorrhage after a contusion with a blunt instrument is fortunately not too common, but its association with intractable glaucoma and possible blood-staining of the cornea makes its treatment necessary to prevent blindness. The purpose of this short account of two cases is to confirm the value of the hypotensive method described by Kenny (1959) and Werner (1959), wh...

UNLABELLED Haemorrhage of a parathyroid adenoma is a rare clinical presentation. This report describes a previously fit and well 54-year-old woman who presented with acute neck swelling and pain with an overlying ecchymosis. Admission laboratory tests revealed a raised parathyroid hormone and hypercalcaemia. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed widespread anterior cervical haemorrhage and a l...

Something of the part played by the placenta in the causation of antepartum hemorrhage was known as far back as the time of Hippocrates. The early ^thers of medicine believed that if the placenta was found over the internal os, had fallen there from its normal position. In the seventeenth century Ambrose Pare taught and practised version and Creech delivery as the treatment for antepartum haemo...

ABNORMAL bleeding has been recognized as a presenting symptom in multiple myeloma (Wintrobe, 1961) though less frequently encountered than pain, tumours, deformity, pathological fractures and neuralgic or neurological symptoms. Bernard, Inceman, Zara and Christol (1952) comment that haemorrhage is found more frequently as a secondary or terminal feature than as a presenting symptom, but concede...

A histological review of dura mater taken from a post-mortem series of 50 paediatric cases aged up to 5 months revealed fresh bleeding in the dura in 36/50, the bleeding ranging from small perivascular haemorrhages to extensive haemorrhage which had ruptured onto the surface of the dura. Severe hypoxia had been documented clinically in 27 of the 36 cases (75%). In a similar review of three infa...

ABNORMAL bleeding has been recognized as a presenting symptom in multiple myeloma (Wintrobe, 1961) though less frequently encountered than pain, tumours, deformity, pathological fractures and neuralgic or neurological symptoms. Bernard, Inceman, Zara and Christol (1952) comment that haemorrhage is found more frequently as a secondary or terminal feature than as a presenting symptom, but concede...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for preterm delivery in women with placenta praevia and antepartum haemorrhage. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional obstetric unit, Hong Kong. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Women delivered at Princess Margaret Hospital between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 1997. Possible risk factors for preterm delivery among women with placenta praevia and antepartum ...