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Lasting cytotoxic edema as an indicator of irreversible brain damage: a case of neonatal stroke.

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: We describe a case of neonatal stroke in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery. Although the ischemic lesion appeared rather homogeneously hyperintense on T2-weighted MR images, corresponding diffusion-weighted images clearly delineated two separate zones of different cellular swelling and, thus, different prognoses. Lasting cytotoxic edema heralded infarction. We believe that the different rates of disintegration of neurons and glial cells may have caused the change from intracellular to interstitial volume fraction during the evolution of edema.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: H Rumpel, B Ferrini, E Martin

Institution: University Children's Hospital Zurich

Language: English

Topic: Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Subfield: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1824774628

FWCI: 1.973

Cites: 10

Cited by: 27

Related to: 10