Symptoms of diffuse axonal injury

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Diffuse axonal injury is characterized by disturbance of consciousness after head injury, often coma, and its duration varies with the degree of injury. But there were no common symptoms and signs of focal damage in brain contusion. However, if there is brain stem injury, there may be changes in vital signs, followed by intracranial hypertension; The symptoms of diffuse axonal injury, let me tell you.

Symptoms of diffuse axonal injury

Brain injury primary brain stem injury diffuse axonal injury, because the brain stem is the center of the whole brain, the brain is the center of the human body, so this part of the injury will cause quite serious disturbance of consciousness, diffuse shrinkage injury is one of the most serious brain injury, but also the most difficult to heal.

When injured, the head is in a state of motion, and the external force can make the brain tissue produce shear force. Coma or agitation occurs immediately after the injury, which lasts for a long time and recovers slowly. A few of the injured may have an intermediate awake period, and there is no clear sign of focal damage to the nervous system.

There is a process of occurrence and development of the lesion, such as no death in a short time, scattered microglial nodules in white matter and diffuse nonspecific astrocyte proliferation. Wallerian degeneration of white matter occurred in patients who survived for several months to several years, especially in the ascending and descending tracts of brainstem.

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In the later stage, besides infusion, rehabilitation exercise, hyperbaric oxygen, acupuncture and other symptomatic treatment, strengthen nursing, increase nutrition, recovery time is not easy to say, generally within three months if you can recover, more than three months is difficult to return to a completely normal state.