Neurology Updates

In the setting of haemorrhagic stroke, presence of intraventricular haemorrhage is a hallmark of poor prognosis with case-fatality up to 60%.^1,2 Data…

On 28th February, the world celebrates the Rare Disease Day 2017, sponsored by Eurordis.

Over the past few years the Taskforce of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) on neurology has been working on the writing of a…

The results of previous randomized trials, especially INTERACT-2, have shown that early intensive blood pressure lowering in patients with spontaneous…

Lochner et al. reported on the diagnostic applicability of ultrasonography in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IH) or secondary intracranial…

Viski et al. reported on the effect of reading on blood flow changes in the posterior cerebral artery in early blind and sighted people using TCD.

Favaretto et al. explored in this study the diagnostic role of transcranial brain parenchyma sonography in detecting specific echogenic alterations of…

Rouco et al. present a new method that may improve the performance of previous approaches for the automatic detection of the common carotid artery…

Perren et al. compared in this study the diagnostic sensitivity of transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD) sonography and the recently developed 3D…

Kargiotis et al. present their preliminary observations of consecutive ultrasound evaluations in 2 patients with acute encephalitis (presenting with…

The Enhanced Control of Hypertension and Thrombolysis Stroke Study (ENCHANTED) was driven by concerns about safety of intravenous alteplase in terms…

The International normalized ratio (INR) normalization in Coumadin-induced intracerebral haemorrhage (INCH) trial compared the effect of intravenous 4…