Introduction: Subarachnoid hemorrhage for aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations is most frequent during pregnancy and puerperium. We analyzed behavior and management of this patients and the effect on it of our Maternal Health Program.
Patients And Methods: There were 437 pregnancy and 717 puerperal complicated patients between january 1996 to december 2005, 41 maternal deaths of all causes and 14 indirect maternal deaths.
Introduction: Ophthalmic artery aneurysms are infrequent lesions and they have very specific particularities.
Objective: to present the anatomoclinical and surgical characteristic of our patients with ophthalmic aneurysms and to analyze our surgical results.
Patient And Methods: 604 patients with intracranial aneurysms were operated on between January 1982 and December 2004.
Introduction: Information of diagnosis, therapeutic managements and inabilities are a very difficult task for neurosurgeons and very important for relatives. The interview is the best instrument that the neurosurgeon has to inform integrally; but many young physicians are not well prepared to deal with medical information and the educational work to achieve it still is insufficient.
Objective: To provide some general, organized and practical experiences on how to develop the interview with the relatives of the neurosurgical patient.