Intracranial arterial occlusion is rarely encountered in association with head injury.Only six cases of traumatic occlusion of the anterior cerebral artery(ACA) have previously been reported.In this paper,the authors ...Intracranial arterial occlusion is rarely encountered in association with head injury.Only six cases of traumatic occlusion of the anterior cerebral artery(ACA) have previously been reported.In this paper,the authors describe a case of a posttraumatic occlusion of ACA.A 35-year-old male presented to the emergency room with severe head injury.Computed tomography(CT) scan displayed diffuse brain swelling with multiple skull fractures.Follow up CT scan showed extensive cerebral infarction in the territory of ACA.The patient underwent CT angiography that demonstrated occlusion of the ACA by a fracture of the anterior fossa.He died after 3 d.ACA traumatic occlusion is a rare condition,with poor prognosis.In this case,fracture was responsible for dissection and direct obstruction of the artery.展开更多
Dear editor, We have read with great interest the recent paper by Herrold et al. （2014） published in Neural Regeneration Research. There is evidence that approximately 20-90% of patients with mild traumatic brain in...Dear editor, We have read with great interest the recent paper by Herrold et al. （2014） published in Neural Regeneration Research. There is evidence that approximately 20-90% of patients with mild traumatic brain injury develop posttraumatic symptoms, and 40% of these patients have persistent symptoms after trauma （Bazarian et al., 1999; Koski et al., 2015）. Therefore, mild traumatic brain injury becomes an important cause of temporary disability. Indeed, posttraumatic disorders have a significant epidemiological relevance, even though it is still undervalued in most of the trauma centers （Bazarian et al., 1999） and there is no specific treatment method （Koski et al., 2015）. Recently, many neurological and posttraumatic stress disorders had been treated with noninvasive brain stimulation （Boggio et al., 2010; Fox et al., 2012）.展开更多
文摘Intracranial arterial occlusion is rarely encountered in association with head injury.Only six cases of traumatic occlusion of the anterior cerebral artery(ACA) have previously been reported.In this paper,the authors describe a case of a posttraumatic occlusion of ACA.A 35-year-old male presented to the emergency room with severe head injury.Computed tomography(CT) scan displayed diffuse brain swelling with multiple skull fractures.Follow up CT scan showed extensive cerebral infarction in the territory of ACA.The patient underwent CT angiography that demonstrated occlusion of the ACA by a fracture of the anterior fossa.He died after 3 d.ACA traumatic occlusion is a rare condition,with poor prognosis.In this case,fracture was responsible for dissection and direct obstruction of the artery.
文摘Dear editor, We have read with great interest the recent paper by Herrold et al. （2014） published in Neural Regeneration Research. There is evidence that approximately 20-90% of patients with mild traumatic brain injury develop posttraumatic symptoms, and 40% of these patients have persistent symptoms after trauma （Bazarian et al., 1999; Koski et al., 2015）. Therefore, mild traumatic brain injury becomes an important cause of temporary disability. Indeed, posttraumatic disorders have a significant epidemiological relevance, even though it is still undervalued in most of the trauma centers （Bazarian et al., 1999） and there is no specific treatment method （Koski et al., 2015）. Recently, many neurological and posttraumatic stress disorders had been treated with noninvasive brain stimulation （Boggio et al., 2010; Fox et al., 2012）.
