Fluid pressure increase in the brain, contained in the skull, is a serious medical condition that can be life threatening. Intracranial pressure changes can be detected noninvasively using acoustic stimulation and analysis. The brain and eye are coupled resonant systems that will respond in a predictable fashion to brain pressure increases, given the constraints of the bioboundary (skull) condi...

Ten cases of intracranial tuberculoma are described. These were investigated and treated at one centre in a 20 year period. The last five cases have occurred in immigrant Asians in the last five years, suggesting an increasing incidence. Diagnostic pointers are discussed and the value of brain scanning emphasized.

Of the 13 cases observed, nine were Malays, three Chinese, and one Indian. The numbers are too small to draw any conclusion as to the incidence of meningiomas according to the race. Of these, ten were females and three males. The female. preponderance is in keeping with other reports.' Eight patients were in the fourth and fifth decades of life, three over 50 years of age and two under 20 years...

Abstract Objective Headache is the predominant disabler in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). The aim was to characterise headache and investigate association with pressure. Methods IIH:WT a randomised controlled parallel group multicentre trial United Kingdom investigating weight management methods IIH. Participants active IIH (evidenced by papilloedema) body mass index (BMI) ≥35 kg/m...

Benign intracranial hypertension or pseudotumour cerebri is a syndrome of increased intracranical pressure and bilateral papilloedema in a patient with normal or small ventricular systems in the absence of space-occupying lesions. No intracranial infection, hypertensive encephalopathy, or hypercapnic respiratory failure is found, and the cerebrospinal fluid content is normal. It has been descri...

OBJECTIVE The main concepts involved in the therapeutic management of intracranial hypertension are revisited, including pathophysiology, monitoring, the traditional approach, and also the presentation of recently proposed therapies. SOURCE OF DATA The main medical literature data bases (especially Medline and Lilacs) were searched for articles published in the last 10 years, and traditional ...

Background and Purpose Surgical excision of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may be complicated by postoperative breakthrough edema and hemorrhage and by intracranial hypertension. Embolization, staged resection, and meticulous surgical technique have decreased but not completely eliminated this complication. In this study we prospectively assess the prevalence of intracranial hypert...