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Pontine hemorrhage is a bleeding which occurs in pons. CT Brain is diagnostic... Organophosphate poisoning is ingestion of insect poison. these two has the same clinical picture of "constricted pin point pupil". But in opc poisoning we can smell the kerosene like odor from patient mouth and excessive salivation & secretion will be there..
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoacute haemorrhage within the pons causing a characteristic clinical picture.
The patient complains of a severe headache and rapidly becomes unconscious, and then develops periodic respiration, pinpoint pupils, loss of "doll's head" ocular movements and tetraplegia. There is no flaccidity and the patient may rapidly go into decerebrate posturing. Hypertension is the main cause of pontine haematoma. CT is the first examination of choice and shows the hyperintense haematoma usually occupying a large part of the pons, sometimes with intraventricular rupture within the first ventricle
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What is pontine?
Pontine refers to things that have to do with the pons. The pons is a structure located in the brain stem that connects the medulla and the thalamus.
Rupture of a vessel in the cerebrum?
brain haemorrhage
What regulates smoothing of transitions from inspiration to expiration?
pontine respiratory group (PRG)
What is pontine hemorrhage?
Bleeding of the Pons is called pontine bleeding. The pons is a structure located on the brain stem, named after the Latin word for "bridge" or the 16th-century Italian anatomist and surgeon Costanzo Varolio (pons Varolii), which could be ascertained from Henry Gray (1862). Anatomy, descriptive and surgical. Blanchard and Lea. pp. 514.
Why pontine lesion cause pinpoint pupil?
the SNS fibers that dilate the eyes run down the brainstem here, and if compressed you get PNS overdrive that constricts the pupils but they are still reactive to light.
How does a pontine haemorrhage produce a pinpoint pupil?
A pontine, or brain stem hemorrhage, produces a pinpoint pupil because the fibers in the brain are unaffected. Therefore, dilation is interrupted, causing the pinpoint, but eyes can look relatively normal.
When was Pontine Paus born?
Pontine Paus was born in 1973.
Can you massage recent haemorrhage?
No you can not massage a recent haemorrhage.
What is pontine?
Pontine refers to things that have to do with the pons. The pons is a structure located in the brain stem that connects the medulla and the thalamus.
What can cause you to have pinpoint pupils?
One's pupils get smaller in bright light. An extremely bright light can make the pupils become quite small, like a pinpoint. Special situations which can produce pinpoint pupil other than light are: 1. Opium overdose 2. Organophosphate poisoning 3. Pontine haemorrhage
What is the difference between haematoma and haemorrhage?
haemorrhage is escape of blood from vessel . and haematoma is massive accumulation of blood with in tissue.
What has the author Harold Leeming Sheehan written?
Harold Leeming Sheehan has written: 'Renal cortical necrosis and the kidney of concealed accidental haemorrhage' -- subject(s): Diseases, Haemorrhage, Uterine, Kidneys, Uterine Haemorrhage
What can cause bilateral pinpoint pupils?
pontine hemorrhage
What is probable central pontine demyleination?
While some things can be quantitatively measured by MRI, damage to the pontine nuclei has a known set of symptoms that a neurologist can use to diagnosis.
Is traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage cureble or not?
no
Alfred Nobel cause of death?
Alfred Nobel died from a cerebral haemorrhage on December 10th, 1896. A cerebral haemorrhage is bleeding in the brain.
Branches of the basilar artery are called Pantene?
The correct answer is pontine.
