The clinical manifestations of brainstem injury are mainly consciousness disorder, pupil and eye movement abnormality and respiratory dysfunction.
The brainstem is the core of the central nervous system, including the midbrain, the bridge and the medulla oblongata, which is located at the bottom of the brain and is the center of human life. Generally, the clinical manifestations of brainstem injury are more serious and may be life-threatening.
The clinical manifestations of brainstem injury mainly include consciousness disorder. Patients with primary brainstem injury often experience immediate coma after the injury, and there will be a persistent deep consciousness disorder for a very long period of time, with little gradual improvement in the middle of the period.
In addition, patients often have unequal pupils on both sides, dilated pupils on the injured side, disappeared light reflexes, and some patients may have pupil and eye movement abnormalities such as extreme narrowing of both pupils, inward slanting, deviation and separation of the eyes in pontine brain injury.
Patients with brainstem damage may have disorders of respiratory function, and they may experience sobbing breathing, or even apnea when the inspiratory and expiratory centers of the medulla oblongata are damaged.
Brainstem damage is very serious and may be life-threatening. Therefore, once such abnormal symptoms occur, patients should consult a doctor immediately and receive treatment under the guidance of a professional physician.