Therapeutic hypothermia in cerebral air embolism: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cerebral air embolism is a life-threatening complication of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Hyperbaric oxygenation is considered to be the cornerstone of its treatment. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient with cerebral air embolism after endoscopy of a perineal abscess....

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Autores principales: Bäuerle, Jochen, Fischer, Andreas, Hornig, Tobias, Egger, Karl, Wengenmayer, Tobias, Bardutzky, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2013
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Case Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24024097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-411
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author Bäuerle, Jochen
Fischer, Andreas
Hornig, Tobias
Egger, Karl
Wengenmayer, Tobias
Bardutzky, Jürgen
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Fischer, Andreas
Hornig, Tobias
Egger, Karl
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description BACKGROUND: Cerebral air embolism is a life-threatening complication of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Hyperbaric oxygenation is considered to be the cornerstone of its treatment. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient with cerebral air embolism after endoscopy of a perineal abscess. Immediate CT imaging confirmed the diagnosis and MRI showed cortically localized areas of restricted diffusion along the gyri. Since hyperbaric oxygenation was not available, moderate hypothermia was applied for neuroprotection. CONCLUSION: This case illustrates a rare complication of endoscopic interventions, and imaging characteristics of cerebral air embolism were described. Furthermore, we discuss the potential utility of therapeutic hypothermia in cerebral air embolism.
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spelling pubmed-37665112013-09-10 Therapeutic hypothermia in cerebral air embolism: a case report Bäuerle, Jochen Fischer, Andreas Hornig, Tobias Egger, Karl Wengenmayer, Tobias Bardutzky, Jürgen Springerplus Case Study BACKGROUND: Cerebral air embolism is a life-threatening complication of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Hyperbaric oxygenation is considered to be the cornerstone of its treatment. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient with cerebral air embolism after endoscopy of a perineal abscess. Immediate CT imaging confirmed the diagnosis and MRI showed cortically localized areas of restricted diffusion along the gyri. Since hyperbaric oxygenation was not available, moderate hypothermia was applied for neuroprotection. CONCLUSION: This case illustrates a rare complication of endoscopic interventions, and imaging characteristics of cerebral air embolism were described. Furthermore, we discuss the potential utility of therapeutic hypothermia in cerebral air embolism. Springer International Publishing 2013-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3766511/ /pubmed/24024097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-411 Text en © Bäuerle et al.; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766511/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-411
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