significance of ICP elevation for patients suffering from IVH. The study subjects were patients with acute (less than 48 h of onset) and severe IVH requiring an EVD for the treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus. The authors demonstrated that significant intracranial hypertension, defined as ICP 1 20 mm Hg, only occurred in 14% of all 472 measurements. When patients presented with IVH and obstr...

BACKGROUND Recent reports have documented a leveling-off of survival rates in preterm infants through the 1990's. The objective of this study was to determine temporal changes in illness severity in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in relationship to the outcomes of death and/or severe IVH. METHODS Cohort study of 1414 VLBW infants cared for in a single level III neonatal intensive care u...

intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is an important cause of brain injury in premature neonates. current study tries to define associated risk factors of ivh in preterm neonates in aliasghar children hospital during 2008 to 2011. in this study, the risk factors have been evaluated in premature neonates with ivh, who had at least one brain sonography since their admission in nicu. a total of 63 pr...

Background Although intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is very rarely reported in full-term neonates, it may occur in children with perinatal trauma, asphyxia, and coagulation disorders, and may originate in the choroid plexus and residual subependymal germinal matrix layer. Case Description We present the case of a full-term baby with IVH. She had no perinatal problems or coagulation disorder...

As there are multiple factors causing hydrocephalus subsequent to intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), it is difficult to achieve the best treatment effect using a single drug alone. In the present study, the protective effect of combination treatment with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and lithium chloride against hydrocephalus after IVH was investigated. A total of 130 adult male...

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a devastating morbidity in preterm infants and can result in poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. Intraventricular hemorrhage usually occurs within 72 hours after birth; post-acute-phase IVH (>1 week after birth) is uncommon. Development of the hemostatic system in fetuses and neonates is an age-dependent evolving process, and the neonatal hemostatic system is ...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a survival study and evaluation of surgical treatment in a cohort of patients with diagnosis of supratentorial spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included all consecutive patients with supratentorial ICH admitted to the Intensive Care Units of three Spanish hospitals with Neurosurgery Department between 2009 and 2012. DATA COLLEC...

administration of antenatal corticosteroids to pregnant women with imminent delivery of a newborn at 24 to 34 weeks of gestation represents one of the most important advances in perinatal medicine in the past 25 years1,2. a single course of antenatal steroid has been associated with a decrease in acute neonatal systemic morbidity and mortality after preterm birth reducing the risk of respirator...

A 45-year-old woman presented with acute onset of headache and confusion. A computed tomography (CT) of the brain showed predominant intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) without significant subarachnoid hemorrhage (Figure 1A and B). A CT angiography showed a laterally oriented, left posterior communicating artery (PCOM) aneurysm (Figure 1C). This aneurysm, confirmed by cerebral angiography (Figure...

The possibilities of preventing intra-ventricular/ sub-ependymal hemorrhage (IVH) are of greatest interest. Unfortunately only fragments are known of the pathogenesis [17, 18]. It has been pointed out that IVH is associated with gestational age, respiratory distress and vigorous resuscitation procedures. Only the latter is of any practical relevance to the clinician and calls for gentleness in ...