Corticosteroids decrease brain edema. In central nervous system tumors, corticosteroids have been found not only to reduce peritumoral and vasogenic brain edema, but also reduce increased intracranial ...

Most brain tumors oversecrete vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which leads to an abnormally permeable tumor vasculature. This hyperpermeability allows fluid to leak from the intravascular ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Three patients treated with an experimental Bristol-Myers Squibb Alzheimer's drug have developed a type of brain swelling known as vasogenic edema, but the side effect may be common ...

In summary, the presence of AQP4 seems to play a detrimental role acutely, but at a later phase starting from around 7 days post injury for at least 1 month, AQP4 may play a beneficial role that seems ...

Factors predicting the use of immunotherapy for patients with advanced melanoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

A 74 year-old man presented with new onset atrial fibrillation and the acute loss of vision on the right side. CT scan of the brain was normal on admission. Two days later, he developed a headache, ...