BACKGROUND The relationship between changes in intracranial pressure and incidence of subclinical seizures in patients requiring neurological intensive care is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate if acute increases in intracranial pressure were accompanied by subclinical seizures. METHODS We prospectively studied 17 intensive care patients (11 male, aged 3-66 yr) wh...

Intracranial pressure was raised by expansion of a supratentorial subdural ballon in anaesthetized baboons. Pressures were measured at several sites, both supratentorial and infratentorial, and cerebral blood flow was measured in each cerebral hemisphere separately. Pressures recorded from the right and left lateral ventricles corresponded closely throughout. Highly significant correlations wer...

We report a case of a 28 year old female who presented with variedly progressive stroke like illness and raised intracranial pressure. Brain MRI scans revealed pericallosal and periventricular hyperintensities with oedema. Various medications like intravenous immunoglobulin, antibiotics, acyclovir, methyl prednisolone and management for raised intracranial pressure were instituted. She rapidly ...