Prevalence of raised intracranial pressure in cerebral malaria detected by optic nerve sheath ultrasound

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 985-988

  Beare, Nicholas A V ^a   Glover, Simon J ^b   Lewallen, Susan ^c   Taylor, Terrie E ^d,e   Harding, Simon P ^f   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^b,g  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; NERVE SHEATH; OPTIC NERVE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; ULTRASOUND;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KENYA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; OPTIC NERVE;

EID: 84871566244     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0459     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Newton CR, Kirkham FJ, Winstanley PA, Pasvol G, Peshu N, Warrell DA, Marsh K, 1991. Intracranial pressure in African children with cerebral malaria. Lancet 337: 573-576.
2. Waller D, Crawley J, Nosten F, Chapman D, Krishna S, Craddock C, Brewster D, White NJ, 1991. Intracranial pressure in childhood cerebral malaria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 85: 362-364.
3. Lewallen S, Bakker H, Taylor TE, Wills BA, Courtright P, Molyneux ME, 1996. Retinal findings predictive of outcome in cerebral malaria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 90: 144-146. (Pubitemid 26141083)
4. Beare NA, Southern C, Chalira C, Taylor TE, Molyneux ME, Harding SP, 2004. Prognostic significance and course of retinopathy in children with severe malaria. Arch Ophthalmol 122: 1141-1147. (Pubitemid 39031129)
5. Newton CR, Crawley J, Sowumni A, Waruiru C, Mwangi I, English M, Murphy S, Winstanley PA, Marsh K, Kirkham FJ, 1997. Intracranial hypertension in Africans with cerebral malaria. Arch Dis Child 76: 219-226. (Pubitemid 27128128)
6. Hansen HC, Helmke K, 1997. Validation of the optic nerve sheath response to changing cerebrospinal fluid pressure: ultrasound findings during intrathecal infusion tests. J Neurosurg 87: 34-40. (Pubitemid 27271024)
7. Helmke K, Hansen HC, 1996. Fundamentals of transorbital sonographic evaluation of optic nerve sheath expansion under intracranial hypertension II. Patient study. Pediatr Radiol 26: 706-710. (Pubitemid 26333960)
8. Helmke K, Hansen HC, 1996. Fundamentals of transorbital sonographic evaluation of optic nerve sheath expansion under intracranial hypertension. I. Experimental study. Pediatr Radiol 26: 701-705. (Pubitemid 26333959)
9. Soldatos T, Chatzimichail K, Papathanasiou M, Gouliamos A, 2009. Optic nerve sonography: a new window for the noninvasive evaluation of intracranial pressure in brain injury. Emerg Med J 26: 630-634.
10. Blaivas M, Theodoro D, Sierzenski PR, 2003. Elevated intracranial pressure detected by bedside emergency ultrasonography of the optic nerve sheath. Acad Emerg Med 10: 376-381. (Pubitemid 36437797)
11. Major R, Girling S, Boyle A, 2011. Ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter in patients with a clinical suspicion of raised intracranial pressure. Emerg Med J 28: 679-681.
12. Tsung JW, Blaivas M, Cooper A, Levick NR, 2005. A rapid noninvasive method of detecting elevated intracranial pressure using bedside ocular ultrasound: application to 3 cases of head trauma in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care 21: 94-98. (Pubitemid 40256291)
13. Newman WD, Hollman AS, Dutton GN, Carachi R, 2002. Measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter by ultrasound: a means of detecting acute raised intracranial pressure in hydrocephalus. Br J Ophthalmol 86: 1109-1113.
14. Malayeri AA, Bavarian S, Mehdizadeh M, 2005. Sonographic evaluation of optic nerve diameter in children with raised intracranial pressure. J Ultrasound Med 24: 143-147.
15. Beare NAV, Kampondeni S, Glover SJ, Molyneux E, Taylor TE, Harding SP, Molyneux ME, 2008. Detection of raised intracranial pressure by ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter in African children. Trop Med Int Health 13: 1400-1404. (Pubitemid 352672617)
16. Smith A, Beare NAV, Musmba C, Lochhead J, Newton CRJ, Harding SP, 2009. New classification of acute papilledema based on prognostic value of optic disc features in children with severe malaria. J Pediatr Neurol 7: 381-389.
17. Murphy S, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Dhabangi A, Musoke C, Nabukeera-Barungi N, Price D, King ME, Romero J, Noviski N, Dzik W, 2011. Ultrasound findings in Plasmodium falciparum : a pilot study. Pediatr Crit Care Med 12: e58-e63.
18. Minns RA, Engleman HM, Stirling H, 1989. Cerebrospinal fluid pressure in pyogenic meningitis. Arch Dis Child 64: 814-820.
19. Killer HE, Jaggi GP, Flammer NR, Huber AR, 2006. The optic nerve: a new window into cerebrospinal fluid composition? Brain 129: 1027-1030.
20. Killer HE, Jaggi GP, Miller NR, Huber AR, Landolt H,Mirinov A, Meyner P, Remonda L, 2011. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics between the basal cisterns and the sub-arachnoid space of the optic nerve in patients with papilledema. Br J Ophthalmol 95: 822-827.