Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review

We report the case of a 71-year-old woman in whom cerebral air embolism resulted from blunt chest trauma. The woman had been lying on her left side for a while after the injury, and air traveled to the right side of the brain. As a result, a cerebral infarction occurred in the right cerebral hemisph...

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Autores principales: Soh, Mitsuhito, Hifumi, Toru, Isokawa, Shutaro, Iwasaki, Tsutomu, Otani, Norio, Ishimatsu, Shinichi
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Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35112106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neur.2021.0052
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author Soh, Mitsuhito
Hifumi, Toru
Isokawa, Shutaro
Iwasaki, Tsutomu
Otani, Norio
Ishimatsu, Shinichi
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description We report the case of a 71-year-old woman in whom cerebral air embolism resulted from blunt chest trauma. The woman had been lying on her left side for a while after the injury, and air traveled to the right side of the brain. As a result, a cerebral infarction occurred in the right cerebral hemisphere that caused loss of consciousness for more than 40 days. The patient recovered consciousness eventually; thus, it is important to monitor the improvement in a patient's state of consciousness, with repeated multi-modality imaging evaluations over a long period.
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spelling pubmed-88042522022-02-01 Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review Soh, Mitsuhito Hifumi, Toru Isokawa, Shutaro Iwasaki, Tsutomu Otani, Norio Ishimatsu, Shinichi Neurotrauma Rep Original Article We report the case of a 71-year-old woman in whom cerebral air embolism resulted from blunt chest trauma. The woman had been lying on her left side for a while after the injury, and air traveled to the right side of the brain. As a result, a cerebral infarction occurred in the right cerebral hemisphere that caused loss of consciousness for more than 40 days. The patient recovered consciousness eventually; thus, it is important to monitor the improvement in a patient's state of consciousness, with repeated multi-modality imaging evaluations over a long period. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8804252/ /pubmed/35112106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neur.2021.0052 Text en © Mitsuhito Soh et al., 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC-BY] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Soh, Mitsuhito
Hifumi, Toru
Isokawa, Shutaro
Iwasaki, Tsutomu
Otani, Norio
Ishimatsu, Shinichi
Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Persistent Air Embolism after Blunt Chest Trauma with Recovery to Pre-Existing Consciousness Level: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort persistent air embolism after blunt chest trauma with recovery to pre-existing consciousness level: a case report and literature review
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35112106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neur.2021.0052
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