All of these events lead to the possibility of brain herniation, which can be rapidly fatal.

This is referred to as a tentorial brain herniation.

Brain herniation can cause severe disability or death.

It is usually seen in the terminal stages of acute head injury and may indicate imminent brain herniation.

In 1920, Adolf Meyer confirmed the pathologies of brain herniation.

Brain herniation is an extremely dangerous condition in which parts of the brain are pushed past hard structures within the skull.

However a lumbar puncture should never be performed if increased intracranial pressure is suspected because it can lead to brain herniation and ultimately death.

It can result in dangerous increases in intracranial pressure and can cause potentially fatal brain herniation.

The hemorrhages can occur as the result of brain herniation, which can cause arteries to tear and bleed.

Decerebrate and decorticate posturing can indicate that brain herniation is occurring or is about to occur.

Brain herniation (often fatal)

Multiple central nervous system disorders e.g. epilepsy, stroke, and impending brain herniation are known to lead to temporal mydriasis as well.

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If intracranial pressure gets too high, it can lead to deadly brain herniation, in which parts of the brain are squeezed past structures in the skull.

Brain herniation frequently presents with abnormal posturing a characteristic positioning of the limbs indicative of severe brain damage.

Another dire consequence of increased ICP combined with a space-occupying process is brain herniation (usually uncal or tonsilar).

The hematoma can exert a mass effect on the brain, increasing intracranial pressure and potentially causing midline shift or deadly brain herniation.

In ALF, cerebral oedema leads to hepatic encephalopathy, coma, brain herniation and eventually death.

One of the first references to casual brain herniation was that of James Colier, who clearly described cerebellar tonsilar herniation in 1904.

Progression from decorticate posturing to decerebrate posturing is often indicative of uncal (transtentorial) or tonsilar brain herniation.

The Pacchionian foramen (incisura tentorii) is important due to some types of brain herniation through it, i.e. supratentorial, infratentorial herniation.

Major causes of morbidity due to raised intracranial pressure are due to global brain infarction as well as decreased respiratory drive due to brain herniation.

Brain herniation is a deadly side effect of very high intracranial pressure that occurs when a part of the brain is squeezed across structures within the skull.

Acute hyponatremia can lead to much more serious complications including brain disease, brain herniation, cardiopulmonary arrest (heart attack), cerebral edema (brain swelling), seizures, coma, and death.

In herniation syndrome, which is indicative of brain herniation, decorticate posturing occurs, and, if the condition is left untreated, develops into decerebrate posturing.