objective: preterm infants are prone to intraventricular hemorrhage. they may suffer from significant morbidity and mortality particularly in those with high-grade hemorrhage. our objective was to determine the incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants transported to a tertiary center compared with those delivered at the level iii facility.  methods: we evaluated all prematu...

In forensic practice intracranial hemorrhages are usually seen in cases of trauma but non traumatic, acute bilateral intraventricular hemorrhage that is in the young pregnant female is very rare and such cases come across by a forensic pathologist is still rarer. Here we present one such case of sudden natural death of fatal isolated pan intraventricular hemorrhage. The deceased was primigravid...

how to cite this article: afsharkhas l, khalessi n, karimi panah m. intraventricular hemorrhage in term neonates: sources, severity and outcome. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):34-39.   abstract objective intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) occurs in preterm infants; however, the occurrence of this event is less frequent in term neonates. the present study evaluated clinical characteristics...

Traumatic intracranial aneurysms (TICAs) are rare and are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. TICAs usually result from head injuries caused by traffic accidents, industrial accidents, or gunshots. We report a traumatic aneurysm of the callosomarginal artery-cortical artery junction arising from a penetrating injury by scissors. A 51-year-old woman was admitted to our hospita...

Expansion of traumatic Delayed and isolated intracerebral hemorrhage: intraventricular tension Treatment implications with pneumocephalus after recombinant factor VIIa shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus Sir, I read with interest the recent article by Yadav et al. They reported an expansion in hematoma volume in about Sir, 16% of cases that were re-imaged within 24 hours of the Tension i...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognosis, neurologic outcome, and predictors of survival in patients with non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS We evaluated prospectively a cohort of 96 Saudi adult males and females with stroke during the month of July 2005 at Arar Central Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Out of 103 patients, 96 patients, who were diagnosed as having intracereb...

We report a 10-year-old girl with an isolated traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage following a traffic accident, who had a good prognosis. Her neurological examination upon arrival was normal and she had no complaint other than headache and vomiting. Computed tomography on admission showed a hemorrhage in the lateral and fourth ventricles. She had a Glasgow Coma Score of 15, and she was thus g...

intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is one of the major causes of the cerebral palsy and mental retardation. prevention and early management of these neurologic developmental problems will require determining the perinatal risk factors associated with this clinical entity. pneumothorax increase the risk of ivh, and cause of pneumothorax has an important effect in severity of ivh. this is a prospe...

protein s (ps) is an antithrombotic plasma protein that plays essential roles in limiting thrombus formation in the anticoagulant system. protein s deficiency is related with recurrent thrombosis. here, the authors report a case of a term neonate with severe ps deficiency in year 2015, imam hospital, tehran, iran, that had seizures and intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) since the age of 3 days. ...

background:intraventricular hemorrhage is the most common intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants. the objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between intraventricular hemorrhage and blood leukocyte count. materials and methods:this was a cross-sectional simple sampling study conducted from the beginning of 2006 to 2010 in ali-asghar children’s hospital. inclusion crite...