Epidemics of methanol poisoning happen across the globe. There are prognostic factors associated with morbidity or mortality from methanol poisoning. Recently we have compared retrospective observational case series of methanol-poisoned patients from Norway (1979 and 2002-2005), Estonia (2001) and Tunisia (2003/2004), and patients from two different centers in Iran (Teheran 2004-2009 and Mashha...

Objective: The goal of this study were to identify the factors that may predict the outcome of subarachnoid hemorrhage (tSAH) patients, and to assist in the management of their treatment. Methods: We retrospectively studied 90 patients admitted to our hospital in the two-year period from January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2004, with an initial computed tomographic (CT) diagnosis of tSAH. Follow-u...

Background: A decompressive craniotomy can relieve critically increased intracranial pressure. Objective: to assess the postoperative clinical outcome and compare it with other series. Methods: (a) patient selection: patients presented to the Neuroemergency unit in Kasr El-Eini Hospitals from January 2006 to December 2007 with traumatic brain injury and fulfilling the following criteria 1) clin...

Patients with large amounts of intraventricular blood have a poor prognosis. The question is whether the quantity of ventricular blood or other factors related to the origin of the intraventricular bleeding cause poor outcome. The association between ventricular blood volume and outcome was analysed in patients with a primary intraventricular haemorrhage (PIVH) and in patients with an aneurysma...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prognostic value of characteristics of acute injury and duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) for long term outcome in patients with mild to moderate head injury in terms of complaints and return to work. METHODS Patients with a Glasgow coma score (GCS) on admission of 9-14 were included. Post-traumatic amnesia was assessed prospectively. Follow up was performed...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical course of cognitive and emotional impairments in patients with severe TBI (sTBI) from 3 weeks to 1 year after trauma and to study associations with outcomes at 1 year. METHODS Prospective, multicenter, observational study of sTBI in Sweden and Iceland. Patients aged 18-65 years with acute Glasgow Coma Scale 3-8 were assessed with the Barrow Neurological Instit...

OBJECT Surgical exposure of the peritrigonal or periatrial region has been challenging due to the depth of the region and overlying important functional cortices and white matter tracts. The authors demonstrate the operative feasibility of a contralateral posterior interhemispheric transfalcine transprecuneus approach (PITTA) to this region and present a series of patients treated via this oper...

INTRODUCTION The importance of coagulation, hematology, and biochemical variables have been investigated in the stroke population but have not been systemically surveyed in cerebellar hemorrhage (CH) population. The aim of the study was to explore the predictive value of these factors for early outcome in this population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty patients with acute spontaneous CH were re...

OBJECTIVE We reviewed the feasibility, safety and efficacy as well as the clinical outcome and long-term angiographic results of endovascular treatment (EVT) of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms. METHODS A total of 429 ACoA aneurysms in 426 patients were treated using coil embolization between March 1996 and October 2010 in a single institution. Pretreatment aneurysmal featur...

AIM External ventricular drainage (EVD) and lumbar drainage (LD) are the most widely used procedures for continued bloody cerebrospinal fluid drainage. Each has his own advantages and disadvantages. Here, we compared complications and clinical outcomes in patients with World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) grade III aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) who underwent coil place...