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Overview: Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a frequent result of traumatic deceleration injuries and a frequent cause of persistent vegetative state in patients. DAI is the most significant cause of morbidity in patients with traumatic brain injuries, ... ... More on Diffuse Axonal Injury...
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/339912-overview
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Diffuse axonal injury occurs in about half of all severe head traumas, making it one of the most common traumatic brain injuries. It can also occur in moderate and mild brain injury. A diffuse axonal injury falls under the category of a diffuse brain injury.
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www.brainandspinalcord.org/traumatic-brain-injury-types...
www.brainandspinalcord.org/traumatic-brain-injury-types/diffuse-axonal-injury/index.html
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A Diffuse Axonal Injury can be caused by shaking or strong rotation of the head, as with Shaken Baby Syndrome, or by rotational forces, such as with a car accident. ... A person with a diffuse axonal injury could present a variety of functional impairments depending on where the shearing (tears) occurred in the brain.
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www.biausa.org/education.htm
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Diffuse axonal injury is widespread injury to axons, a part of the nerve cells in the brain. ... Computed tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is usually done to detect diffuse axonal injury. Diffuse axonal injury is treated with the general measures used to treat all types of head injuries.
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www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch087/ch087d.html
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Diffuse axonal injury; A diffuse axonal injury (DAI) causes shearing of large nerve fibers and stretching of blood vessels in many areas of the brain. In addition to bleeding (hemorrhage), this type of injury can trigger a biochemical cascade of toxic substances in the brain during the days following the initial injury.
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www.neurologychannel.com/tbi/types.shtml
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Of these four, diffuse axonal injury is the one that is gaining the most attention. Part of the reason for the focus on the axonal injury is undoubtedly its relationship in its less severe forms, to the sequelae of subtle brain injury.
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subtlebraininjury.com/diffuse.html
subtlebraininjury.com/diffuse.html
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OBJECT: Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a major complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that leads to functional and psychological deficits. ... OBJECT: Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a major complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that leads to functional and psychological deficits. Although DAI is...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16175860
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To test the hypothesis that slowed information processing in traumatic brain injury is related to diffuse axonal injury (DAI), the authors compared 10 patients with predominant DAI (diffuse group) and minimal DAI (mixed injury group) on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, simple and choice reaction time, Trail Making Tests A ...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/15291734
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Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a frequent form of traumatic brain injury in which a clinical spectrum of in creasing injury severity is paralleled by progressively increasing amounts of axonal damage in the brain.
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nro.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/3/202
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