Sentences with phrase «brain damage occurred»

He was brought to a hospital by helicopter where it was determined that extensive brain damage occurred.

Early diagnosis would allow potential therapies to be tested before substantial brain damage occurred.

The records indicate that this brain damage occurred after the babies were born, and despite proper resuscitation.

Not exact matches

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

I had never heard of this, but according to WebMD, kernicterus «is a very rare type of brain damage that occurs in a newborn with severe jaundice.»

Attempting a VBAC is a reasonable option in a hospital that is appropriately staffed, IF and ONLY IF a mother understands that death and brain damage will inevitably occur in some babies even if you are low risk, even if your doctor is standing right there, and even if you have immediate surgery.

Irriversable brain damage starts to occur in as little as 4 minutes due to lack of oxygen.

It is totally possible to attend hundreds of births without any brain damage or death occurring.

If bilirubin levels become extremely high, complications such as brain damage (kernicterus), cerebral palsy, and deafness can occur.

I've always believed anyone can deliver a baby during a «normal» birth; but when seconds are all you have before brain damage or death occurs because of an «abnormal» delivery, why would you want to waste those seconds waiting on an ambulance?

Also called fetal distres or non-reassuring fetal status, the theory of fetal distress is this: Neurological damage occurs when the baby's brain is deprived of oxygen.

Within 4 minutes or less brain damage or even death can occur.

«The regions in these networks are not talking to each other as much as healthy adults of the same age, even in networks where brain damage didn't occur.

Of those who survive, half are left with brain damage, which occurs when the heart starts beating again and a sudden rush of blood into oxygen - starved tissues triggers an avalanche of treacherous biochemical reactions.

«Potentially, if we can prevent or control diabetes and high blood pressure in middle age, we can prevent or delay the brain damage that occurs decades later and leads to memory and thinking problems and dementia,» says study author and Mayo Clinic epidemiologist Rosebud Roberts M.B., Ch.B.

May 1 — 31 When a stroke occurs, blood supply to the brain is interrupted, and neurological damage follows rapidly.

Because it is a targeted therapy, less collateral damage occurs to healthy brain tissue.

It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals.

It occurs when fluid pressure inside the eyes rises, irreversibly damaging the optic nerve that carries visual information from the retina to the brain.

Chris Borland's decision has provoked discussion of the types of brain damage that can occur including a severe degenerative disease abbreviated as CTE

Although it's unclear just how the damage occurs, one possibility is that the buckyball nanocrystals enter the brain via olfactory neurons, a route traveled by other small particles.

In this case, the team used a variant called ipsilesional anodal tDCS, where a positive (anodal) current is applied on the side of the brain where damage has occurred.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

The brain damage associated with fetal alcohol syndrome is believed to afflict one in 33 newborns in the United States and occurs when the developing fetus» mother drinks large amounts of alcohol.

The diagnosis and treatment of female cancers are known to affect fertility for several reasons: some chemotherapy regimens can cause damage to the ovary, and this can occur at any age; radiotherapy can also compromise female fertility through effects on the ovary, uterus and potentially those brain centres which control the reproductive axis.

The high levels of IL - 1β leave the rats» brains susceptible to damage, but the symptoms will only surface if a second infection occurs, in this case, LPS.

Doctors often treat the condition by patching the good eye and forcing the brain to rely on the other eye, but the treatment risks damaging vision in the good eye, and if it doesn't succeed or occur early enough in a child's visual development, the vision loss in the impaired eye can be permanent.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage.

Scientists are only now starting to discover the subtle damage that occurs when the brain is injured: It gets disturbed down to its individual molecules.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

But Fabry explains that much of the damage to brain cells occurs after the clot is removed or dissolved by medicine.

At present, the most common, sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease is difficult to diagnose until symptoms are readily apparent and significant damage to the brain has occurred; findings from this study may provide clues to suitable diagnostic markers.

Changes in these fat - like substances, may suggest a method to diagnose all forms of Alzheimer's disease before significant damage to the brain occurs.

Aside from better understanding neurological damage that occurs in a percentage of people susceptible to breast cancers, the new work also helps to better understand the evolution of the brain.

Unfortunately, at this time, there are no definitive methods to detect these conditions before significant and irreversible brain damage has occurred.

Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.

«But we do know that disruption occurs, and the blood proteins we have found in the brain are able to activate the brain's immune cells and damage neurons.»

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

However, the specific damage that occurs in affected brain tissue hasn't been well understood.

Published in the March 2016 issue of American Journal of Pathology, this Georgetown study, the first of its kind, modeled repeated mild head trauma to investigate brain damage that occurs after such an injury.

While many contend that the earliest cognitive deficits are caused by damage to the striatum — a structure deep in the brain known to be severely affected in HD — recent evidence suggests that this claim may paint an incomplete picture of the widespread changes occurring in the brains of HD patients during the very early stages of the disease.

Vision loss from glaucoma occurs when axons in the optic nerve become damaged and can no longer carry visual information to the brain.

traumatic brain injury Damage to the brain that results from an external shock, such as an explosion, or a direct impact (as can occur in a car accident).

The authors note their findings could downplay the frequency in which hearing loss occurs in children infected with Zika in the womb because they only tested children with microcephaly, which is characterized by an abnormally small head and in some cases brain damage.

There are typical movements (chorea) that are associated with the disease, but they don't occur until significant damage to the brain has already happened.

Sleeping is the time when many regenerating processes are occurring inside your body, mainly repairing damaged cells and tissue, as well as helping the brain sort out important information it has acquired throughout the day.

«Although we are still learning about the full range of birth defects that can occur when a woman is infected with Zika during pregnancy, we know that it causes brain abnormality, vision problems and other devastating consequences of brain damage that might require lifelong specialized care,» Schuchat added.

Damage to the heart and brain often occur before any signs or symptoms of disease become apparent.

If the deficiency is very advanced, or occurs at a critical period of brain development, the damage can be quite severe.

Information from the journal Neurochemistry International shows that the nutrient is able to protect delicate glial cells in the brain against free radical damage that occurs as a result of low grade bacterial infection common in overweight and obese individuals.