Neurologist
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Review Case Reports
Acute global ischemic stroke after cranioplasty: case report and review of the literature.
Cranioplasty procedures are performed usually after devastating neurological injuries requiring craniectomies. Although relatively safe, global intracerebral infarction is a poorly understood, and most often, lethal complication after cranioplasty. We report here one such case with a thorough literature review with insight as to possible etiologies of this injury. ⋯ Although global intracerebral infarction after cranioplasty is extremely rare, the concepts of vessel injury, venous stasis, and reperfusion into dysfunctional cerebral tissue after cranioplasty should be considered when evaluating the risk of this procedure.