What are the after effects of craniotomy? Does it affect memory or vision?

Updated on healthy 2024-07-16
9 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    The impact of craniotomy on the human body is related to a variety of factors, such as the severity of the disease, the site of the surgery, and whether or not the bone flap was decompressed. Some people develop motor, sensory, and intellectual disabilities. Craniotomy is a general term that encompasses many different methods, procedures, and degrees of cranial surgery.

    After a craniotomy, only a small number of people may be left with varying degrees of sequelae. With current state of technology, most surgeries can alleviate this condition without causing sequelae. In general, the occurrence of complications after craniotomy is closely related to the patient's preoperative condition, preoperative consciousness, and severity of the surgical site.

    If the patient has functional impairment before the severe development of the disease, then there may be sequelae such as continuous or new exacerbation of physical dysfunction, hemiplegia, hemianopia, and partial somatosensory impairment; If the patient has already developed severe symptoms such as brain herniation and coma before the operation, then consciousness may not be restored after surgery, the brain damage is difficult to reverse, and the vegetative state may appear. In addition, if the surgical site is located in important functional areas, such as speech, vision, motor, and sensory areas, postoperative symptoms may cause corresponding loss of function in the injured area.

    If the surgical site is localized, it can lead to a group of syndromes in which important nerve conduction is impaired. In addition, some patients may also have complications and sequelae such as craniotomy epilepsy, cerebral crest fluid leakage, local bone defects, wound infections, and central nervous system infections. The sequelae of craniotomy should be judged according to the specific circumstances at the time.

    Everyone's situation is different, so the after-effects may be different.

    The sequelae of craniotomy are divided into common and unique sequelae: including postoperative hemorrhage, intracranial infection, cerebral crest fluid leakage, poor incision healing and other unique sequelae: Surgery involving brain functional areas and cranial nerves may be complicated by limb hemiplegia, partial sensory impairment, mental disorders, etc.

    If it is a mild traumatic brain injury, there will be no sequelae, if it is a severe head injury, after the operation, it may leave common sequelae such as skull loss, hemiplegia, aphasia, sleep disorders, memory loss, mood disorders and personality changes, especially in severe cases, there will be a long-term coma, become a plant, and survive.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    There are many types of craniotomy, depending on the disease, location, and severity of brain damage. If it is a brainstem lesion, the risk of surgery is very high, and the sequelae are also very serious, such as limb paralysis, dizziness, etc., and in severe cases, it may be unconscious and vegetative.

    If cerebellar surgery occurs, you will experience dizziness, unsteadiness in walking, and a feeling of drunkenness when walking. If lobalm surgery affects speech and limbs, it is easy to continue the sequelae of epilepsy, and it is easy to affect intelligence and memory, and if it is in the thalamus or lateral ventricles, it will affect sensation and body language.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    After craniotomy, severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will be left, and the body will have poor resistance after surgery, and a series of immune system diseases, headaches, migraines, vision loss, and lack of concentration will occur. Yes, usually after craniotomy, it will affect our memory and vision, resulting in decreased vision and blurred vision.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, fever, aphasia, hemiplegia, sensory impairment, and nerve damage may occur; I don't think it affects memory or vision.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    1. Epilepsy, a brain nervous system disease, is a relatively common sequelae for patients with craniocerebral injury. The occurrence of craniocerebral injury is likely to damage the patient's nervous system, resulting in abnormal electrical discharge of neurons in the patient's brain due to neurological dysfunction, which promotes the formation of epilepsy. 2. Aphasia is also one of the common sequelae of head injury, the occurrence of aphasia is mainly caused by the damage of the patient's cerebral cortex language center, which is caused by the damage of the head injury, resulting in the loss of the patient's language expression ability and language comprehension ability, but there may be some differences in the form of language impairment manifested by different patients.

    3. Brain injury will also cause the sequelae of amnesia syndrome, the main feature of which is the fiction based on forgetting, and patients are often prone to emotional difficulties in control. 17. Loss of cognitive function is also a sequelae caused by head injury. Although the sequelae are relatively common, the loss of cognitive function can greatly affect the normal life of the patient, resulting in a serious decline in the ability to live a normal social life.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Hello: The sequelae of craniotomy depend on the degree of brain and skull damage, if there is a severe cerebral contusion, hemiplegia, aphasia, severe neuropsychiatric disorders occurred before the operation, and it is difficult to correct through surgery, the so-called sequelae, it is not caused by surgery, but the irreversible performance that occurred before surgery, and successful surgery will not bring negative effects.

    I wish you good health.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    1. Whether there are sequelae depends on several aspects: the degree of injury, the injured part, postoperative recovery, etc. There are so many types of sequelae. Common are: long-term coma, hemiplegia, aphasia, epilepsy, etc.

    2. Generally 2 weeks for a month.

    3. Looking at his recovery, it's hard to say.

    4. Strengthen nutrition and pay attention to rest.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Hello, I'm a member of the Conan Bar Baike Quanshuo, and I'm glad to hear your question from you

    It is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine after the operation, take Chinese herbal medicine for comprehensive recuperation, improve immunity, adjust the balance of yin and yang, and achieve the goal of completeness, and the operation will not affect the life expectancy.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The sequelae of this surgery depend on the surgical site, for example, if the surgical site is around the language center, the postoperative language ability will be reduced, the balance of the body will be affected in the cerebellum, and the memory center will affect the memory in the future. However, in either case, as long as the surgery is successful, all kinds of sequelae will slowly recover. So, please rest assured, you don't have to worry about these problems, and the doctor will explain it to the family.

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