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MRI An Imaging Tool To Evaluate Cerebral Changes In Victims Of Heat StrokePresenting With Cerebral Symptoms
ISSN: 2617 - 9482
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MRI An Imaging Tool To Evaluate Cerebral Changes In Victims Of Heat StrokePresenting With Cerebral Symptoms
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Publisher: Bahria University Medical And Dental College
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Abstract
ABSTRACT:Heat stroke usually presents as medical emergency that causes altered cerebral status and deterioration of multiple organfunctions. Heat stroke leads to many different physiological changes within the body, some of which result in neurologicdysfunction. The imaging characteristics of neurological changes of heat stroke are not well documented in literaturealthough the pathophysiologic mechanism of neuronal damage is fairly well understood. We conducted a study to evaluatethe imaging appearances of human brain after heat stroke on MRI presented with cerebral symptoms.Material and methods: The retrospective study conducted in radiology department of Ziauddin university hospital fromMay 2015 till July 2016. All the patients with heat stroke presented with neurological deficit were underwent MRI brain,evaluated by two senior radiologists.Results: 56 patients were included in study, 12 female and 44 male, all patients had clinical...
