Abstract Hospital-wide rumors and anecdotal reports had suggested that there was a potentially serious problem of alcohol and drug abuse among the psychiatric patients of this hospital. The authors describe a systematic, evaluative approach which gave direct and detailed information on the nature and extent of[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

A brain concussion is a still incompletely defined syndrome of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that causes a spectrum of symptoms without evident structural damage to the brain. A headache, cognitive deficits, emotional instability, sleep disturbances, and an overall change in mental state after trauma are highly[…] [symptoma.com]

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An extreme eye injury can cause a globe rupture where the eyeball can split open. This can be due to trauma directly on the eye or around the eye. Watch this episode of A State of Sight with Isaac Porter, MD to learn more about this injury and the eye surgery options to help save the eye and restore vision.[…] [eyeporter.com]

[…] than with relative pupillary block ( Ritch 2003 ). [doi.org]

19 Severity can range from pupillary strands or an isolated Mittendorf dot, to more severe forms with retrolenticular membranes, retinal dysplasia, or detachment. 1, 3, [doi.org]

In other mice, both a - and b - wave amplitude reductions were seen, due in part to poor pupillary dilation. [doi.org]

[…] or vomiting, and abnormal behaviour such as fighting, grandiosity, hypervigilance, agitation, and impaired judgement. [who.int]

sweating, chills, anorexia, nausea or vomiting, insomnia, and abnormal behaviour such as aggression, grandiosity, hypervigilance, agitation, and impaired judgement. [who.int]

Stimulants can give rise to symptoms suggestive of intoxication, including tachycardia, pupillary dilatation, elevated blood pressure, hyperreflexia, sweating, chills, nausea [who.int]

And patients with abnormal pupillary amounted to 24 people (40%). [biomedpharmajournal.org]

Factors that may influence outcome are as follows: Patient age Time lapsed between injury and treatment Immediate coma or lucid interval Presence of pupillary abnormalities [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Factors that may influence the outcome are as follows: Patient age Time lapsed between injury and treatment Immediate coma or lucid interval Presence of pupillary abnormalities [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

abnormalities or motor posturing; Figure 3 ). [ccforum.biomedcentral.com]

Of note, 3 of the 7 patients with pupillary abnormalities made a good recovery, as did 4 of the 8 with clots 60 mL. [doi.org]

Lack of abnormal pupillary response to light and the visibility of basal cisterns may increase the need for urgent care. [emedicine.com]

We report a case of biopsy proven myocardial damage after opiate-induced rhabdomyolysis. Myocardial biopsy showed focal lesions formed by small mononuclear inflammatory cells with a few neutrophils, associated with degenerated and necrotic myocardial fibers, interstitial edema and congestion of intrinsic blood[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Also several studies have shown increased mortality in patients with the presence of pupillary abnormalities, which was seen acutely in our patient. [hindawi.com]

abnormalities, alcohol use, injury by motorcycle, ischemic damage, [6] hypoxia or hypotension, and overall ability to control ICP. [7, 8, 5] Chronic subdural hematoma Outcome [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] poor prognostic indicators for acute SDH have been reported to include the initial and postresuscitation Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score, the GCS motor score on admission, pupillary [emedicine.medscape.com]