Unusual Presentation of Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Case Report

Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is the microscopic axonal injury in the brain’s neural pathways, corpus callosum, and brainstem, which has been linked to a major increase in morbidity and mortality. Patients present acutely with no lucid interval, abnormal pupil response, and decerebrate or decorticate...

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Autores principales: Alkhalifah, Ahmed, Alkhalifa, Mohammed, Alzoayed, Mohammed, Alfaraj, Dunya, Makhdom, Rawan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36514627
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31336
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author Alkhalifah, Ahmed
Alkhalifa, Mohammed
Alzoayed, Mohammed
Alfaraj, Dunya
Makhdom, Rawan
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description Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is the microscopic axonal injury in the brain’s neural pathways, corpus callosum, and brainstem, which has been linked to a major increase in morbidity and mortality. Patients present acutely with no lucid interval, abnormal pupil response, and decerebrate or decorticate posture. In this case report, we report on an 11-year-old girl who was agitated, crying, vomiting, had one episode of seizure, and had poor communication as a result of a high-risk mechanism side-impact motor vehicle collision (MVC).
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spelling pubmed-97414872022-12-12 Unusual Presentation of Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Case Report Alkhalifah, Ahmed Alkhalifa, Mohammed Alzoayed, Mohammed Alfaraj, Dunya Makhdom, Rawan Cureus Emergency Medicine Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is the microscopic axonal injury in the brain’s neural pathways, corpus callosum, and brainstem, which has been linked to a major increase in morbidity and mortality. Patients present acutely with no lucid interval, abnormal pupil response, and decerebrate or decorticate posture. In this case report, we report on an 11-year-old girl who was agitated, crying, vomiting, had one episode of seizure, and had poor communication as a result of a high-risk mechanism side-impact motor vehicle collision (MVC). Cureus 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9741487/ /pubmed/36514627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31336 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alkhalifah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alkhalifah, Ahmed
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Unusual Presentation of Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Case Report
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title_short Unusual Presentation of Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741487/
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