CT imaging is the gold standard for diagnosing acute SAH, with diagnostic sensitivity approaching 98% within the first 6 hours of symptom onset. 3 In this case, the head CT promptly revealed SAH ...

CT of the head without contrast enhancement is the first essential step in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage . 20,27 In the first 3 days after the onset of symptoms, the sensitivity of the ...

If an aneurysm, or bulge in a blood vessel, ruptures and bleeds in the brain, it can lead to an SAH. Read on to learn more about the symptoms and causes of sentinel headaches, possible treatments ...

It has now also been shown to contribute to the pathogenesis of early brain injury after SAH. The study, by an international group of researchers, was published online in Neurology on December 28.

Nimodipine is initiated on admission in all patients with SAH for the prevention and treatment of vasospasm (Feigin, Rinkel, Algra, Vermeulen, & van Gijn, 1998; Rinkel et al., 2005).

A decade ago, in a Nordic Twin Cohort study involving 79,664 twins from Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, researchers looked at risk factors of SAH other than genes.

The paper detailing the study’s findings was published this month in the Annals of Neurology and shows that elevated lipid levels could be correlated to decreasing the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage, ...