Cocaine Use May Make Brain Bleeds Deadlier (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Patients presenting with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage are more likely to die in the hospital if they've recently used cocaine, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - May 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Cocaine Use Linked to Higher Mortality Following SAHCocaine Use Linked to Higher Mortality Following SAH
Acute cocaine use in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is associated with higher in-hospital death as well as a significantly increased risk for aneurysm rerupture. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - April 8, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
10 Years After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Survivors Have Persistent Problems In Key Areas
Ten years after stroke caused by a ruptured aneurysm of the brain, surviving patients have persistent difficulties in several areas affecting quality of life, reports a study in the March issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Cocaine-Induced Stroke Often Deadly (CME/CE)
HONOLULU (MedPage Today) -- Among patients with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, recent cocaine use was associated with a greater chance of dying in the hospital, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 7, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Uncontrolled Risk Factors Put Stroke Survivors in Danger
Smoking, high blood pressure especially dangerous for those with subarachnoid hemorrhage
Source: HealthDay
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Surviving Hemorrhage Less Likely If Patients Smoke, Have High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol
"It is particularly important for subarachnoid haemorrhage survivors to refrain from smoking and to take care of their blood pressure and cholesterol levels; apart from age, these are the primary factors behind the increased risk of mortality," explains neurosurgeon Miikka Korja from the HUCH's Neurosurgery Department together with professor Jaakko Kaprio from the University of Helsinki's Hjelt Institute... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Smoking, high blood pressure and cholesterol can be fatal for hemorrhage survivors
(University of Helsinki) A Finnish study shows that patients who have experienced subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) have a highly increased risk of death due to a stroke or cerebral hemorrhage, and have double the mortality rate of the general population. The researchers state that considerably more attention should be paid to risk factors in the life of SAH survivors. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
