Data concerning the results of glucose tolerance tests and levels of intraocular pressure were analysed for 120 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma, many of whom had been under observation for a period of four to five years. The patients consisted of two groups: in 62 patients a disc haemorrhage had been recorded at some time during the observation period, and in 58 no haemorrhages had be...

Intracranial haemorrhages are rare but potentially life-threatening complications of spine surgery. Most reported cases involved subdural or cerebellar haemorrhages; supratentorial parenchymal bleeding is very uncommon. We report a 28-year-old woman who underwent resection of a thoracic Ewing's sarcoma, and developed fatal haemorrhages around her cerebral metastases during surgery. The clinical...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical course and determine predictors of deterioration in patients with lobar haemorrhages). METHODS A comprehensive review of 61 consecutive patients with lobar haemorrhages was performed. Neurological deterioration was defined as (1) decrease in Glasgow coma sum score by 2 points, (2) new neurological deficit, or (3) clinical signs of brain herniation. A univariate...

Cerebellar haemorrhages are rare life-threatening complications following spine surgery that present challenges for their diagnostic and their therapeutic management. Their patho-physiology remains unclear.We report a case of a life-threatening cerebellar haemorrhage secondary to an occult dural tear following a planned L5-S1 laminectomy. The patient was treated with emergent external ventricul...

Outcomes assessed in the review Neonatal mortality, total mortality, pneumothorax, pulmonary interstitial emphysema, X-ray grade at 6 hours (grades 3 to 4), number receiving oxygen at 28 days, number receiving oxygen at 36 weeks, all brain haemorrhages, intraventricular haemorrhages (grade 3 and 4), periventricular leukomalacia, patent ductus arteriosus, necrotising enterocolitis, retinopathy o...

OBJECTIVES To identify the evidence base behind the neuroradiological features that differentiate abusive head trauma (AHT) from non-abusive head trauma (nAHT). DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING Literature search of 14 databases, websites, textbooks, conference abstracts and references (1970-February 2010). Studies had two independent reviews (three if disputed) and critical appraisal. PA...

Although neonatal retinal haemorrhage is a common pathological finding in about 20 per cent. of newborn infants, the cause of this condition is still not well understood. Jager (i86i) is generally accepted as the first author to have reported the condition. Estimates of its incidence have varied from 2 -6 to 50 per cent. (Duke-Elder and Dobree, I967). Chace, Mlerritt, and Bellows (1950), in a s...