Brain injury victims can seem OK, symptoms delayed (AP) (Yahoo)
 

http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com...yet472.jpg?v=2AP - At first, Natasha Richardson felt fine after she took a spill on a Canadian ski slope. But that's not unusual for people who suffer traumatic head injuries like the one that killed the actress. Doctors say sometimes patients with brain injuries have what's called a "lucid interval" where they act fine for an hour or more as the brain slowly, silently swells or bleeds.




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Delayed symptoms
 

Even for those who do not suffer a hematoma (brain bleed) like Natasha Richardson did, symptoms from a MTBI or concussion can be delayed for a number of other factors.

The myelin sheath and schwann cells that surround the axons can continue to deteriorate after the original impact. This can go on for weeks and sometimes months. This deterioration leaves the axons unable to pass the messages on to the next neuron.

There is also a theory that the brain cells send out tRNA (transmitting or signaling RNA) to tell the neighboring cells to self-destruct, so that erroneous messages do not get processed. When this happens in a young person, the brain then just reroutes the messages via another route. In older persons, this rerouting is not as successful.

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thanks newsbot and mark your a real asset to the site and bored, as you may know I got cfs leak two days after ct scan and still have it now, a little known fact is that csf is corrosive to tissue and bone and its only the presence of blood in the csf that proms healing of the dura , also this makes a mockery of the Glasgow coma scale,( the lucid period ) what do you think

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CFS leak
 

vini,

Has the doctor tried anything to help you with your CFS leak?

One of the treatments is an autologous blood injection. They draw some of your blood and inject a small amount into the leak. This clots and plugs the leak while it heals itself. A flowing CFS leak will usually not self-repair.

Glascow Coma Scale is grossly misinterpreted in PCS/MTBI. I have only had a lowered GSC in one of my 13 concussions but my symptoms appear to be permanent. In fact, the lowered GSC was in 1964 before the GSC was in general use.

Was the GCS developed in Glascow, Scotland in response to Scots falling off their Pub stools and hitting their heads? Inquiring minds want to know. LOL

My condition is permanent such that I got approved for permanent Social Security Disability payments on Friday, 3/20/09, almost three years after first applying.

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hi mark there was a delay in the leak coming out of my nose due to the swelling and twelve days before they screwed my head back together and a bit of diving for cover :rolleyes: by the surgeons as to the delay in treatment,with cranial leaks they go in through the nose and do a fat and tissue patch if possible or a craniotomy :eek: I have had a CT scan but I know it was not close enough cut to show a leak , only big holes, beta 2 transfirin test is next or tracer dye injected into the CSF and they tip you up and down to mix, they hope for self sealing with rest, most of the time it drains down the back of my throat but when my ICP go,s up it leaks out my nose again

the Glaswegians had a beer called hoo yoo looking at and enjoy a good punch up , and make up most of our SAS , so are probably harder to knock out than you average joe
so if it was developed there its flawed from the start :D