20+ Brain Swelling After Stroke Images

20 Okt, 2010 Posting Komentar

20+ Brain Swelling After Stroke Images. Cases of potentially deadly brain damage as a result of stroke could be reduced after new research identified a pathway in the brain that causes swelling, and which responds to an innovative treatment. It is the body's way of responding to trauma, stroke, or infection.

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Brain swelling causes ongoing damage to the brain tissue, so it needs to be treated as quickly as brain swelling may occur as a result of an infection. How to reduce brain swelling. Where in the brain the stroke happens and how long the brain goes without blood can make a difference as to how bad the stroke is.

Emotional lability often occurs after a stroke.

Those effects can include a temporary period of swelling in and around the stroke that may last for hours to days. Unfortunately, this swelling can also impair recovery from a traumatic brain injury. It swells before it heals. Simple answer is stroke causes ischemia (or lack of blood flow) to the brain resulting in hypoxia (lack of oxygen) to neurons.