Brain swelling, or cerebral edema, is a medical emergency. Learn about the evidence-based treatments doctors use to reduce ...

Intracranial pressure (ICP) is the pressure exerted by the components of the cranial vault, which are the brain, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and blood. An elevation of ICP results in a reduction of ...

The effects of morphine and nalorphine on cerebrospinal-fluid pressure are summarized in Figure 1. The mean cerebrospinal-fluid pressure in the 17 subjects before the start of the experiment was ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a normal blood pressure reading is less than 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). This includes a systolic pressure reading ...

Investigators will compare magnetic resonance (MR) elastography and/or ultrasound elastography measurements to other forms of noninvasive methods of detecting raised intracranial pressure, including ...

Introduction Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is characterised by raised intracranial pressure (ICP) of unknown cause, when all other causes of raised ICP have been excluded. 1 IIH causes ...