A nondiabetic, non hypeensive adult male develops sudden severe headache with altered sensorium, likely diagnosis is :
Answer is B (Subarachnoid Haemorrhage): Sudden severe headache with altered sensorium indicates haemorrhage as the likely vascular event in this patient. The patient is a non diabetic & non hypeensive, thereby indicating that he has no risk factor to account for the weakening of small perforating vessels, that could lead to their rupture and an intracerebral haemorrhage. The haemorrhage is thus a spontaneous one. Most likely diagnosis therefOre is spontaneous rupture of a saccular aneurysm or 'Subarachnoid H'rrage'.
Brain tumour
Sub arachnoid haemorrhage
Encephalitis
Meningitis