Susac Syndrome was first described as an inflammatory microangiopathy of the brain and retina. Since then, multiple articles have been published in attempts to improve the understanding of this rare disease. Clinically Susac Syndrome is known to present with triad of encephalopathy, sensorineural hearing loss and branch of retinal artery occlusion (BRAO), along with characteristic "snowball" or "spoke" appearing white matter lesions of the corpus callosum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the advancements in modern medicine, new methods are being developed to monitor patients in the intensive care unit. Different modalities evaluate different aspects of the patient's physiology and clinical status. The complexity of these modalities often restricts their use to the realm of clinical research, thereby limiting their use in the real world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) are commonly acquired vascular lesions that form an outpouching of the arterial wall due to wall thinning. The prevalence of UIAs in the general population is 3.2%.
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