Third Ventricle Volume Predicts Functional Outcome in Chronic Subdural Hematoma.

Objectives: There is a lack of evidence demonstrating the utility of computed tomography (CT) to predict chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) clinical outcomes. We aim to analyze the role of tomographic volumetric analysis in patients with CSDH.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of patients undergoing burr-hole craniostomy (BHC) for CSDH over five years at a tertiary care center.

Prognostic Value of Age and Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Cervical Subaxial Spinal Cord Injuries.

Background And Objective: The predictive role of a patient's age in spinal cord injury (SCI) is still unclear given the coexistence of potential confounding factors, whether clinical or radiological. Thus, it is the aim of this work to assess the prognostic role of a patient's age against initial radiological features in a traumatic cervical SCI population.

Methods: Clinical and radiological data from patients with acute traumatic cervical SCI and a first MRI performed within 48 h of trauma were retrospectively reviewed.

Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiological Abnormalities and the importance of Magnetic Resonance.

Comment on:  Bonfanti L, Donelli V, Lunian M et al. Adult Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA). Two case reports and a narrative review.

Role of the patient comorbidity in the recurrence of chronic subdural hematomas.

Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is an old blood collection between the cortical surface and the dura. Recurrence of CSDH after surgical evacuation occurs in up to a quarter of patients. The association between patient premorbid status and the rate of recurrence is not well known, and some previous results are contradictory.

The "Brain Stress Timing" phenomenon and other misinterpretations of randomized clinical trial on aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Clipping and coiling are currently the two alternatives in treatment of ruptured cerebral aneurysms. In spite of some meritorious analysis, further discussion is helpful to understand the actual state of art. Retreatment and rebleeding rates clearly favors clipping, although short-term functional outcome seems to be beneficial for clipping, while this different is not such if we perform the comparison at a longer follow up.

Acute Deafness: A Rare Complication of Shunting.

Background: Mild hearing loss following shunting has been described; however, severe auditory impairment associated with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is an uncommon, rarely reported phenomenon. Treatment options and pathophysiologic considerations are discussed in this case report.

Case Description: A 27-year-old man who was treated for an eighth cranial nerve schwannoma with complete resection and a VP shunt 10 years previously presented to the emergency department with acute severe hearing loss and headache.

Factors predicting outcome of surgical treatment of spontaneous spinal hematomas: a retrospective cohort study in four tertiary reference centers.

Background: Spontaneous spinal extradural hematoma (SSEH) is a rare but disabling disorder. Most of the previous assumptions regarding the factors that contribute to poor neurological recovery from SSEH are based on small case samples or conditions with similar clinical presentations but different physiopathologies. Our goal was to find the most relevant prognostic factors for neurological recovery in patients suffering SSEH treated with surgical evacuation.

Spontaneous Tension Pneumocephalus: A Rare Complication of Shunting.

Background: Spontaneous tension pneumocephalus (STP) is a rare but serious complication derived from shunting procedures. Few cases have been published with purely intraventricular location. Treatment options and physiopathology considerations are discussed in this case report.