Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula is showing "progressive improvement" after surgery three weeks ago to stop an ...

Intracerebral hemorrhage is a medical emergency (Broderick et al., 1999). Initial diagnosis is achieved by using an emergent brain computed tomography (CT) scan upon presentation. A CT scan can ...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent tests that showed improvement in his medical condition as the Brazilian president continues to recover from emergency brain surgery earlier this month.

Patients were diagnosed as having hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke on the basis of results from CT ... scans. The researchers found that serum GFAP was detectable in 81% of patients with ...

A subarachnoid hemorrhage was demonstrated on a head CT scan. Investigations. Physical examination, laboratory tests, brain CT scan, brain MRI scan, brain magnetic resonance angiogram, brain ...

Any significant change in the patient's neurological exam (e.g., decline, worsening deficit in mental status) requires an emergent CT scan to reassess size of the hemorrhage. In patients with ...

The president was taken from Brasilia to the Sao Paulo hospital late Monday after complaining of a headache, which an MRI scan determined to be an intracranial hemorrhage. The emergency was linked ...