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Subdural hemorrhagic injury after open heart surgery
Masato Nakajima1, Kouji Tsuchiya, Kazuya Kanemaru
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu City, Japan. m-nakajima2a@ych.pref.yamanashi.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 7, 2003
Abstract:
We report two cases of acute subdural hematoma after cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. In both patients, emergency removal and drainage of a subdural hematoma was performed by neurosurgeons, and complete recovery followed. Subdural hemorrhagic brain injury after cardiac surgery is rare and devastating; however, we consider early diagnosis and proper treatment to be effective because organic brain damage did not occur.