Delayed Post-Anoxic White Matter Injury in an Infant

Abstract

Teaching Point: White matter reversal on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is indicative of delayed post-anoxic encephalopathy. This manifests sooner in young infants than in adults.

Keywords

• postanoxic leukoencephalopathy
• delayed white matter injury
• child
• hypoxic brain injury
• magnetic resonance imaging (mri)