Porencephalia
Description:
Porencephalia — existence in a head brain of the cavities containing liquid. The last can be both single, and multiple, are more often symmetrized and are connected with ventricular system. The bubble basis usually reaches a surface of big hemispheres.
The convolutions of the brain surrounding a cavity go to it radially, in them a number of degenerative changes (reduction of quantity and size of nervous cells, their wrong arrangement) is observed.
Porencephalia symptoms:
In the presence of big cavities children perish in the first days or months of life. At patients with a single small porencephalia the delay of psychophysical development is observed, epileptic seizures, paresis and paralyzes are possible.
The true (inborn) porencephalia needs to be differentiated with a pseudoporencephalia (symptomatic porencephalias) when after the postponed inflammatory, traumatic and other diseases in a brain cysts are formed.
Unlike a true porencephalia at the same time normal development of the child prior to the beginning of a basic disease is observed.
Porencephalia on MRT
Treatment of a porencephalia:
Effective treatment does not exist.
