Cerebral edema increases intracranial pressure by trapping fluid around the brain. As a result, it decreases the blood supply to the brain, which reduces the oxygen stores, thereby causing damage or death of brain cells. The damage can be irreversible or, at times, fatal. Brain fever, stroke, ischemic injury, brain infection, brain hemorrhage are the possible reasons for cerebral edema. Surgery, medications, hypothermia, and osmotherapy treat it.
Cerebral Edema - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Cerebral edema is swelling of the brain when excess fluid gets collected in brain cells, causing an increased pressure known as intracranial pressure.
