Sentences with phrase «diffuse axonal»

If a loved one suffered a TBI such as a diffuse axonal injury as a result of another person's negligence, the attorneys at the Kiley Law Group are here to help you recover the financial security you and your family need to move forward.

Diffuse axonal injuries are common traumatic brain injuries that occur when the head rapidly accelerates or decelerates, with the brain moving faster than the skull.

Diffuse axonal injury — damage to the brain cells that isn't always as outwardly visible as other types of brain injury but can lead to permanent brain damage and death.

To learn more about diffuse axonal brain injury watch our short video by Neurosurgeon Dr. R.O. Holness: Posted by Personal Injury Lawyer Mr. Renn A. Holness, B.A. LL.B.

There is also more diffuse abnormal signal noted in the corpus callosum and periventricular brain indicating diffuse axonal shear injury.

... experienced a severe head injury on July 31, 2010 which resulted in extensive post traumatic imaging findings including grade 1 and 2 diffuse axonal injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage including involvement of basal cisterns, intraventricular hemorrhage, multiple subdural hematomas, small epidural hematoma and left frontal and bilateral temporal hemorrhagic contusions.

If your loved one has suffered diffuse axonal injury (DAI), several areas of the brain have been affected by lesions, resulting in widespread damage.

i) The insured person is accepted for admission, on an in - patient basis, to a public hospital named in a Guideline with positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or phneumocephaly.

i) The injury shows positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to, intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or pneumocephaly.

Revisiting grade 3 diffuse axonal injury: Not all brainstem microbleeds are prognostically equal.

Under the microscope the axonal damage is called Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI).

Smith's findings could shed light on a common but puzzling brain trauma known as diffuse axonal injury.

When pathologists perform autopsies on people with diffuse axonal injury, they see severed axons with swollen tips, just like what Smith sees in his experiments.

Concussions that lead to lasting brain dysfunction cause SNTF to accumulate in vulnerable long axon tracts of the brain, and its blood elevation is a measure of this diffuse axonal injury.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.