Cerebellar haemorrhage: Management and prognosis

✍ Scribed by Raimund Firsching; Michael Huber; Reinhold A. Frowein

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 264 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0344-5607
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00310656

✦ Synopsis

Of 26 patients with CT confirmed intracerebellar haematoma, 17 had ventricular drainage performed and 7 patients had the haematoma evacuated. Eleven patients died. Mortality was clearly related to state of consciousness. Seven out of 8 non-comatose patients survived but 10 out of 18 comatose patients died. As there was no incidence of deterioration immediately following placement of a ventricular drainage, the actual risk of upward transtentorial herniation seemed low. Absence of evoked potentials in 6 patients accurately predicted a fatal outcome but normal SEP and BAEP were of lesser value for predicting survival.