Items tagged “ischaemia”
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Mesenteric ischaemia
Mesenteric ischaemia, also commonly referred to as bowel or intestinal ischaemia, refers to vascular compromise of the bowel and its mesentery that in the acute setting has a very high mortality if not treated expediently. Mesenteric ischaemia is far more commonly acute than chronic in aetiology...
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Ischaemic stroke
Ischaemic stroke is an episode of neurological dysfunction due to focal infarction in the central nervous system attributed to arterial thrombosis, embolisation, or critical hypoperfusion. While ischaemic stroke is formally defined to include brain, spinal cord, and retinal infarcts 1, in common...
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Internal hernia with ischaemic jejunum
Published
02 Apr 2014
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Ischaemic stroke (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Ischaemic stroke is a clinical diagnosis where an acute neurological deficit follows brain infarction.
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This is a summary article; read more in our article on ischaemic stroke.
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Pneumatosis intestinalis
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25 Jul 2016
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Canadian Neurological Scale
The Canadian Neurological Scale is a validated tool to evaluate stroke severity 1,2 designed to be performed on patients who are alert or drowsy. Patients who are stuporous or comatose are evaluated with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) instead.
Classification
Section A is completed first. In the ...
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