What is Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage?

What is subarachnoid haemorrhage?

Subarachnoid haemorrhage is intracranial bleeding, due to rupture of a vessel or a bleb in the vessel, in the CSF spaces around the brain generally at the basal cisterns.

How does a patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage present?

A patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage presents with sudden severe headache. Varying degrees of impairment of consciousness and neurological deficits such as hemiparesis or speech deficit may be present.

Overview

Remember when you attendeda music show (or a cultural festival like Garba or Ram Lila) with your friends and a thousand others? You enjoyed the reverberating music, made memories, and indulged your taste buds with mouth-watering foods.These are some of the good memories of the festival. Now let’s talk about the not-so-goodmemory – the flu-like symptoms you experienced after reaching home or during the music festival. It is called festival flu.

Overview

Lack of saliva causes dry mouth or xerostomia. It may be a symptom of elevated blood sugar in diabetic patients or may indicate other underlying medical conditions. Everybody occasionally gets a dry mouth. But it is not normal to always have a dry mouth, and doctors may suspect diabetes as its cause.

This blog focuses on the relationship between dry mouth and diabetes.

Introduction

People normally think dementia is the loss of memory. However, it is more than that. It reduces cognitive skills and causes confusion and disorientation. Dementia develops due to various underlying medical conditions. Some forms of dementia are progressive, while some are reversible.

Overview

Yellow tongue is a condition where the tongue appears yellow instead of its normal pink or reddish colour. The yellow colour appears when dead skin cells build up on the surface of your tongue. Bacteria on your mouth also produce a yellow pigment and makes it appear yellow.  

Overview

Do you know the symptoms of a spine tumor? If not, this post will provide you with some information.
 

A spinal tumor is a mass of cells grown inside or around the spinal cord. Anywhere in and along your spinal column, which includes your vertebrae, spinal cord, and the tissues enclosing your spinal cord, spinal tumors can develop. The majority of spinal tumors are caused by cancer metastasis or cancer that has spread to your spine from another part of your body. Both benign and malignant spinal tumors are possible (cancerous).

Introduction

Laryngeal cancer is a type of cancer that develops in the larynx, commonly known as the voice box. The larynx is located in the throat and plays a crucial role in breathing, speaking, and swallowing. Laryngeal cancer can develop in different parts of the larynx, including the glottis (where the vocal cords are located), the supraglottis (above the vocal cords), and the subglottis (below the vocal cords).

Leukaemia is a type of life-threatening blood cancer that needs early diagnosis and treatment. Below is a short case profile to better understand the disease.