After aneurysm rupture, the amount of blood in the subarachnoid cisterns on the initial CT scan predicts the risk for vasospasm.

The subarachnoid blood is confined to the midbrain cisterns, with no evidence of intraventricular or intracerebral hemorrhage (Fig 1).

Introduction/Purpose The eShunt Implant (CereVasc, Inc., Boston, MA, USA) is a novel endovascular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt developed for the treatment of communicating hydrocephalus. The ...

Objectives: To report the clinical features of two Japanese brothers with familial leptomeningeal amyloidosis, showing a causative gene abnormality of a transthyretin (TTR) variant Asp18Gly, ...

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is the extravasation of blood into the subarachnoid space between the pial and arachnoid membranes. The most common causes of spontaneous SAH are rupture of a saccular ...

Anatomy explorers have charted a new path myeloid cells use to access the brain. On 3 June in Neuron, scientists led by Lindsay Hohsfield and Kim Green, both at the University of California, Irvine, ...

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According to a release from the Boone County Fire Protection District, crews were dispatched to a home in Hallsville on June 23 on reports that a missing man was possibly trapped in a cistern ...

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A correspondent—Thomas H. Johns, of Point Worthington, Miss.—informs jus that egg-shaped water cisterns are becoming very general in the South and West, and that they are far superior to the ...