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Indian Journal of Neurotrauma 2018; 15(01): 039-040
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1612646
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Postelectrocution Massive Brain Infarcts

Authors

  • Kaiser Kareem

    1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sheri-Kashmir-Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India

  • Khursheed Nayil

    1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sheri-Kashmir-Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India

  • Zulfikar Ali

    2   Department of Anesthesiology, Sheri-Kashmir-Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India

  • Bashir Dar

    2   Department of Anesthesiology, Sheri-Kashmir-Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India

  • Altaf Ramzan

    1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sheri-Kashmir-Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Publication History

Received: 10 September 2016

Accepted: 31 October 2017

Publication Date:
17 August 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Acute brain infarct is an uncommon complication of electrical injury, and only a few cases have been reported. A young man sustained a high-voltage electrical injury followed by a fall from height. Imaging revealed right hemibrain infarct. He was operated for that, but did not make much progress. Electric shock injury with the high-voltage current even for short period of contact may cause massive infarction of brain, and prognosis remains dismal.

Keywords

electrical injury - infarction - vasospasm - thrombosis