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Postoperative Transient Neurologic Dysfunction: A Proposal for Pathophysiology
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Phi JH
; Lee SJ
; Kang HS
; Kim JE
; Kim SK
; Cho WS
; Lee SY
J Clin Neurol
2018[Jul]; 14
(3
): 393-400
PMID29971980
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Sudden neurological deterioration which cannot be
explained by structural change, ischemia or seizure is often observed among
neurosurgical patients. We aimed to provide new insight into the pathophysiology
of postoperative transient neurologic dysfunction. METHODS: We describe prolonged
but fully reversible focal neurologic dysfunction of unknown origin based on the
initial evaluation in 8 patients who had received
encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosis for moyamoya disease. We performed brain
imaging, including diffusion weighted imaging and perfusion magnetic resonance
imaging or single photon emission computed tomography, and electroencephalography
(EEG) during the episodes and after resolution of the symptoms. RESULTS: The
symptoms consisted of dysarthria, hemiparesis, or hemiparesthesia of limbs
contralateral to the operated side. These symptoms developed between 12 hours and
8 days after surgery and lasted between 12 hours and 17 days. Structural imaging
did not show any significant interval change compared with the immediate
postoperative images. Perfusion imaging showed increased cerebral blood flow in
the symptomatic hemisphere. EEG revealed low amplitude arrhythmic slowing in the
corresponding hemisphere. Follow-up imaging and EEG after recovery did not show
any abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS: Transient neurologic dysfunction can occur during
the postoperative period of brain surgery. Although this may last more than usual
transient ischemic attack or seizure, it eventually resolves regardless of
treatment. Based on our observation, we propose that this is the manifestation of
the transient cortical depression triggered by mechanical stimulation, analogous
to migraine aura associated with cortical spreading depression.