Sentences with phrase «in irreversible brain damage»

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

Not exact matches

Neurotrack has engineered software that uses infrared eye - tracking to detect damage to the hippocampus in the brain three to six years before symptoms appear and damage to memory and nerve centers is irreversible.

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

Children who were exposed to significant levels of mercury while in the womb, have displayed delayed walking and talking, poor attention span, and irreversible brain damage.

On his Web site, filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore charged Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder with poisoning kids and told readers: «You can not reverse the irreversible brain damage inflicted on every single child in Flint.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Excessively low levels of folate can result in megaloblastic anemia and possibly irreversible brain damage.

If a woman doesn't consume enough iodine in the early stages of pregnancy, causing her to have hypothyroidism, this will cause irreversible brain damage to her baby.

The catch is that sometimes the person who is choked will pass out or be left with irreversible brain damage — and sometimes, such with the teen in New Jersey, they can even die.

Heinz body anemia results in a lack of oxygenation that can cause irreversible damage to your cat's vital organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, and even the brain.

A deficiency in cobalamin can lead to irreversible damage to the different structures of the brain as well as the spinal cord.

Even worse, in human hosts, roundworms sometimes get lost and leave the intestine (this is known as «visceral larval migrans»), in which case the worms can wind up in the eye or brain, resulting in irreversible damage.

On climate, we probably have less than a decade before a rubicon is crossed (the equivalent of permanent brain damage or worse in your teenage metaphor), and on species extinction and habitat destruction every passing day damage is done that is irreversible.

While the NY Public Health Law has defined lead poisoning as occurring at a level of 10 µg / dL (micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood) for purposes of overall health policy, the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that even low - dose lead exposure is dangerous for children and can cause irreversible brain damage.

Often times these injuries can result in a certain level of irreversible brain damage.

Spokeswoman Jennipher Dickens, whose infant son was shaken by his father at the age of seven weeks, said in a statement: «As a result of the child abuse my son endured in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome, my son now has irreversible brain damage.