Bleeding and swelling in the brain can become an emergency that requires surgery. However, there are times when a patient does not require surgery and can be safely monitored by nurses and physicians in the neuroscience intensive care unit (NSICU)....
Epiduralhematoma:With an epidural hematoma, the bleeding is located between the dura mater and the skull (epi=outside). This injury most often occurs along the side of the head where the middle meningeal artery runs in a groove along the temporal bone. This bone is relatively thin and offers...
Epiduralhematoma:With an epidural hematoma, the bleeding is located between the dura mater and the skull (epi=outside). This injury most often occurs along the side of the head where the middle meningeal artery runs in a groove along the temporal bone. This bone is relatively thin and offers...
Individuals who take aspirin or other medications that prevent blood clotting by inhibiting the accumulation of platelets appear more likely to have tiny, asymptomatic areas of bleeding in the brain, according to a report posted online today that will ap
Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a bleeding into the brain’s ventricular system, where the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is produced. The IVH is one of the most common types of brain injury in preterm infants born before the 30th gestational week1,2,3. The IVH in preterm infants occurs whe...
Conclusions and Relevance In this study, older adults had a substantial long-term risk of dementia after a concussion, which was associated with a modest reduction among patients receiving a statin. Introduction Concussions are a common cause of brain injury occurring in more than 1 million American...
Understanding bleeding, recurrent TBI, and TE risk after TBI can help to guide therapy. Our objectives were to 1) evaluate the incidence of bleeding, recurrent TBI, and TE events after an initial TBI in older adults and 2) identify which factors contribute to this risk.Glass, Nina E.Vadla...
identified in this study consisted of both concussions and nonconcussive internal head injuries, which can include brain contusion (a bruise of the brain tissue), epidural hematoma (bleeding in above the brain’s outer membrane), or subdural hematoma (bleeding beneath the brain’s outer membrane)...
Intracranial hemorrhage occurs when blood vessels within the brain rupture, releasing blood into the brain tissue. In a delayed traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, bleeding in the brain occurs after the initial trauma, usually within 48 hours, after an initial negative head CT. ...
ALK1 heterozygous mice showed age-dependent vascular lesions and gastrointestinal bleeding, similar to findings in HHT patients [103]. In the endothelial-specific ALK1-deleted mice, the lethality was delayed. However, these animals still displayed AVMs with poorly developed SMC layers within a ...