Heat stress presenting with encephalopathy and MRI findings of diffuse cerebral injury and hemorrhage
Open Access
- 17 June 2013
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Neurology
- Vol. 13 (1), 63-4
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-13-63
Abstract
Heat stress results in multiorgan failure and CNS injury. There a few case reports in the literature on the neurological consequences of heat stress. We describe a patient with heat stress presenting with encephalopathy and bilateral cerebral, cerebellar, and thalamic lesions and intraventricular hemorrhage on MRI. Heat stress should be in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with encephalopathy and elevated serum inflammatory markers especially if the history suggests a preceding episode of hyperthermia.Keywords
This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
- Abnormal hyperintensity in cerebellar efferent pathways on diffusion-weighted imaging in a patient with heat strokeClinical Radiology, 2012
- Heat Stroke: Increased Signal Intensity in the Bilateral Cerebellar Dentate Nuclei and Splenium on Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging: Fig 1.American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2009
- Cyprus energy policy: The road to the 2006 world renewable energy congress trophyRenewable Energy, 2008
- Gray–white matter discrimination—a possible marker for brain damage in heat stroke?European Journal of Radiology, 2002
- Heat StrokeThe New England Journal of Medicine, 2002
- Specific Changes in Human Brain After Hypoglycemic InjuryStroke, 1997
- Heatstroke‐Induced Cerebral Ischemia and Neuronal DamageAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1997
- Heatstroke: A new look at an ancient diseaseIntensive Care Medicine, 1995
- Cerebellar degeneration in neuroleptic malignant syndrome: neuropathologic findings and review of the literature concerning heat-related nervous system injury.Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 1989
- Stroke risk factors prepare rat brainstem tissues for modified local Shwartzman reaction.Stroke, 1988