Study on a patient with ages of 51 admitted the nervous surgical department has shown that patient suffered vertigo, nausea, vomiting and poor consciousness, without clinical located nervous damage; images of CT scanner: dilation of third ventricle of cerebrum, right ventricle of cerebrum dilated larger than the left ventricle of cerebrum; the middle line was proponed into the left; The conscious progress was worsened rapidly; apnea; ineffective drainage and use of respirator. The patient was dead. Conclusion : Magnetic resonance image is the most effective method in diagnostics for patient with fluke infection in the ventricle of cerebrum.
Fasciola hepatica ; Cerebral Ventricles

An examination of 210 children stool samples showed that the rate of parasite infection was 33.8%. Among them ascarisdiasis 29.52% ankylostomiasis 4.67% and trichuriasis 1.43%. The rate of multiinfection was 5.63%. There was a significant difference of the infestation rate between Kinh and Raglai ethnic children
Fasciola hepatica ; Cerebral Ventricles

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Cerebral Ventricles* ; Hydrocephalus*

Cerebral Ventricles ; Heart Ventricles ; Humans ; Punctures

This study introduced the clinical and paraclinical features and outcome of treatment of 3 cases of brain abscess rupturing into the ventricle in the nervous surgical department of Vietduc Hospital during 1994-2001 and reviewed the medical literature during 1950-2001. The brain abscess rupturing into the ventricle was very severe complication with the mortality rate much higher than this of brain abscess without rupturing into the ventricle (morbidity rate: 60 -100%). In order to reduce the mortality rate it should early diagnose and treat basing on the clinical signs such as rapid worsened perception, sudden happened, new meningeal signs.
Brain Abscess ; Rupture ; Cerebral Ventricles

37 patients (20 male, 17 female) treated in Bach Mai Hospital from May 2000 to March 2002 with definite diagnosis of ventricle hemorrhage. All they were undergone a CT scanning for detecting the blood in brain ventricle by various level and various images. In 19/37 patients by puncture encephalomyelo liquid was examined, in 1 patient there is an artery - venous communicans determined by arrterioangiography. Initial symptoms such as headache, nausea/vomit, conciousness disturbance, hemi-paralytis, seizure, fever, urine retention, uncontrolled urination, eyelid collapsure, dizziness and perspiration. An early diagnosis and proper treatment can decrease the mortality and the disability
Hemorrhage ; Patients ; Cerebral Ventricles ; diagnosis

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a common condition that often leads to death or disability. Accurate prediction of the outcome and decisions regarding the treatment of ICH patients are important issues. We report a case of thalamic hemorrhage with an intraventricular hemorrhage that was suddenly migrated into the third and fourth ventricles in its entirety 8 hours after symptom onset. To our knowledge, this case is the first report of spontaneous migration of thalamic ICH into ventricles, and we suggest a possible mechanism for this case with a brief review of the literature.
Cerebral Hemorrhage ; Cerebral Ventricles ; Fourth Ventricle ; Hemorrhage ; Humans

Hydrocephalus is a common neurological disease with complex etiology. It is characterized by the accumulation and continuous growth of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricular system and subarachnoid space. Hydrocephalus can be caused by congenital genetic factors, brain trauma and cerebral hemorrhage. Through the efforts of many researchers, the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus is being completed, but it has not been fully explained. The imbalance of cerebrospinal fluid production and absorption into the sinus, and disorder of the cerebrospinal fluid circulation pathway or the osmotic pressure maintenance in the ventricle can lead to increased cerebrospinal fluid and ventricular dilatation.
Cerebral Hemorrhage ; Cerebral Ventricles ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Humans ; Hydrocephalus

The purpose of this study was to explore the potentials of a clinical 3T MRI in mouse brains and technical adaptation and optimization. T1-weighted images (T1WI), T2-weighted images (T2WI), FLAIR (Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery) images, Gadolinium enhanced T1-weighted images (Gd-T1WI), Diffusion weighted images (DWI) were acquired in brain of 2 mice (weight 20~25 g) with cerebral infarction by occlusion of right middle cerebral artery, 1 hour, 24 hours, 72 hours after infarction and 1 normal mouse brain using clinical 3T MRI scanner. We analyzed differentiation of striatum, ventricle, cerebral cortex, and possibility of detection of acute cerebral infarction. We could differentiate the striatum, ventricle, cerebral cortex on T2WI and on DWI, FLAIR, T1WI, the differentiation of each anatomy of brain was not definite, but acute cerebral infarction was detected on DWI of 1 hour, 24 hours, 72 hours after infarction and on T2WI, FLAIR of 24 hours, 72 hours after infarction. Clinical 3T MRI can be used in differentiation of anatomy of mouse brains and DWI can be helpul in detection of acute cerebral infarction in acute phase. With technical adaptation and optimization clinical 3T MRI can be useful tool for provide preclinical and clinical small animal studies.
Animals ; Brain ; Cerebral Infarction ; Cerebral Ventricles ; Diffusion ; Gadolinium ; Infarction ; Mice ; Middle Cerebral Artery

Akinetic mutism is a syndrome caused by various etiologies, and characterized by silent immobility and preserved alertness. The repetitive ventriculoperitoneal shunt for the recurrent hydrocephalus can be a forerunner of that. We present a man with akinetic mutism following two times of ventriculoperitoneal shunt revision. Akinetic mutism of the patient may be caused by the damage on the ascending dopaminergic projections. Symptoms were not alleviated by the normalization of ventricular size but by a large dose of bromocriptine.
Akinetic Mutism* ; Bromocriptine ; Cerebral Ventricles* ; Humans ; Hydrocephalus ; Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt