Surgery
More surgery for Indian baby with swollen head
Doctors said Saturday they plan to carry out more surgery on a two-year-old Indian girl to correct a rare disorder that caused her head to balloon to twice its normal size.
Nov 24, 2013
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Surgery
Complications associated with continuous CSF drainage in patients with SAH
Researchers at Duke University conducted a randomized clinical trial in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In this study, the researchers compared two approaches to intracranial pressure management—continuous ...
Aug 20, 2013
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Neuroscience
Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center implants one of first MRI-safe devices for pain
Neurosurgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are among the first in the United States to successfully implant an MRI-safe spinal cord stimulator to help patients suffering from chronic back or limb pain.
Aug 6, 2013
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Surgery
D-dimer plasma level: A reliable marker for venous thromboembolism after craniotomy
The D-dimer test is often used to rule out the presence of venous thromboembolism; however, the test has been considered unreliable in postoperative patients because D-dimer levels may rise after surgery. Researchers from ...
Aug 6, 2013
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Other
India's baby Roona discharged after surgeons shrink skull (Update)
Doctors allowed a one-year-old Indian baby to go home Friday after nearly four months of treatment to correct a rare disorder that caused her head to double in size.
Aug 2, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Rhode Island Hospital successfully manages case of severe Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Rhode Island Hospital successfully treated a 21-year-old patient with severe neuroinvasive Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), minimizing neurological deficits and resulting in a very positive outcome. The findings from this ...
Jul 8, 2013
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Medical research
Patients treated with own olfactory ensheathing cells realize neurologic improvement
A team of researchers in Poland who treated three of six paraplegics with spinal cord injury using transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells found that the three treated patients showed neurological improvement and no adverse ...
Jun 28, 2013
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Pediatrics
Using serial neuroimaging studies to identify timing of abusive head trauma in infants
Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania) have categorized the appearance and evolution of abnormalities on neuroimages that represent abusive head ...
Jun 25, 2013
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Surgery
Smoking and neurosurgical outcomes
The effects of long-term cigarette smoking on morbidity and mortality have long been known. In a more immediate sense, smoking in the days and weeks before surgery can lead to morbidity and complications for many surgical ...
Jun 18, 2013
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Surgery
Two new papers on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa) and intracranial hemorrhage
The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group is pleased to announce publication of two new studies on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa®) and intracranial hemorrhage: one in the Journal of Neurosurgery and the other in Neurosurgical ...
May 1, 2013
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