Traumatic subdural hemorrhage (TSH) is an injury between the meningeal membranes, caused by traumas, especially traffic accidents.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the mortality rate (MR) due to TSH in the period 2018-2022 in Chile.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional study on MR...
Introducción: La hemorragia subdural aguda no traumática (HSDNT) es una patología relacionada a factores de riesgo cardiovascular (RCV). Por falta de estudios epidemiológicos nacionales, se plantea estudiar la tasa de mortalidad (TM) y defunciones por HSDNT entre los años 2017-2021 en Chile.
Metodol...
A ten-month-old male Yorkshire terrier dog was evaluated via CT four months after traumatic brain injury. The head CT scan showed dilated ventricles associated with a peripheral crescent-shaped collection of blood near the right parietal bone with a mineralized area. The visceral layer of the hematoma wa...
ABSTRACT Objective: to compare hospital costs and clinical outcomes in inguinal and incisional hernioplasty before and after implementation of the ACERTO project in a university hospital. Methods: retrospective study of 492 patients undergoing either inguinal hernioplasty (n=315) or incisional herniop...
ABSTRACT Purpose: to trauma quality indicators as a tool to identify opportunities of improvement in elderly trauma patient's' treatment. Methods: prospective analysis of data collected between 2014-2015, and stored in the iTreg software (by Ecossistemas). Trauma victims, aged older than 60 years and...
A non-traumatic intra-cystic hemorrhage in an arachnoid cyst is a rare event, with few
cases reported in the literature. We present a case of an eleven-year-old boy patient,
which presented a spontaneous acute subdural hematoma and intra-cystic hemorrhage
after a strong headache episode. The results were...
ABSTRACTBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Only few reports in literature have pointed out to the possibility of a cranial subdural haematoma formation associated with dural puncture during spinal or epidural analgesia. We herein describe such a rare case who was diagnosed to have acute subdural haematoma after ...
