:: : : A treatment of last resort for severe cerebral oedema ( swelling of the brain ) is a decompressive craniectomy, which is basically cutting a hole in the skull.
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A post mortem examination by the state pathologist, John Harbison, found the cause of death to be cerebral oedema and inhalation of blood due to multiple facial injuries consistent with a significant assault.
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Dr . Fakhri has used his electrotherapy methods and inventions in the treatment of pulpitis at Al Maghreb Dental Centre in Baghdad, myelitis and cerebral oedema at the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad, and retinitis pigmentosa and heumatoid arthritis at his various private clinics in London.
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Several of the climbers were suffering from high altitude cerebral oedema, a condition where the victim can hallucinate, lose balance and eventually the ability to even walk, due to lack of oxygen ( which, high up on Everest, is only one-third the partial pressure of oxygen at sea level ) in the brain.
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A total of 83 subjects were studied; 18 healthy volunteers given 10 or 20 mg iv . for 6 days, 40 in-patients with normal renal function given 10 mg iv . two times per day ( except two children given 0.2 mg / kg ), 12 patients with cerebral oedema and normal renal function given a massive iv . dose on the day of surgery ( 49.2 ?19.3 mg ) and 15.4 ?9.4 mg daily for the following 10 days and 13 patients with impaired renal function due to glomerulonephritis or pyelonephritis, who were given 20 25 mg iv . daily for 6 days . " In all studies renal function was monitored daily resorting to the usual tests of renal function : BUN, serum creatinine, creatinine clearance, urinalysis.
