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MR findings of brain after heat stroke
LI Jun  WANG Bin  ZOU Zhi-meng  LI Hai-fei  CAO Qing-yong  TAN Ke-ping  WANG Qi 

DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2014.05.005.


[Abstract] Objective: To investigate the MR findings of brain after heat stroke.Materials and Methods: Eight cases of patients diagnosed heat stroke by clinical methords were selected. The MR studies including T1WI, T2WI, T2-FLAIR, DWI, SWI were performed for 2—5 days after heat stroke. Five patients were followed up by the same MR studies with 2-4 times.Results: Among eight cases with heat stroke, five patients were detected abnormal signals which located at brain stem, cerebellar dentate nucleus, cerebellum feet, cerebellum, hippocampus, corona radiate, semi oval center and right frontal-temporal-parietal lobe. The lesions including micro hemorrhage, cytotoxic edema, vasogenic edema, hemorrhagic infarction, encephalitis. Symmetrical distribution were displayed for cerebellar lesions.Conclusions: Heat stroke can cause cerebral lesions such as ischemia, hemorrhage, infarction and inflammation. MR findings have certain characteristics which often involved in the cerebellum symmetrically.
[Keywords] Brain diseases；Heat stroke；Magnetic resonance imaging

LI Jun Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

WANG Bin* Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264003, China

ZOU Zhi-meng Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

LI Hai-fei Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

CAO Qing-yong Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

TAN Ke-ping Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

WANG Qi Department of Radiology, Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264100, China

*Correspondence to: Wang B, E-mail: binwang001@aliyun.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2014-02-05
Accepted  2014-05-08
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2014.05.005
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2014.05.005.

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