The first CT in a SAH: a picture tells a story

Hilda Guerra1, Arnoley Abcejo2, Kevin Gobeske3

  • 1Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Practical Neurology
|May 14, 2017
PubMed

Finding the cause of acute neurological deterioration in the hours following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage remains challenging. The presence of blood casts in the ventricles proves that deterioration is secondary to acute hydrocephalus and prompts immediate external ventricular drain placement.