Liu Minxia

    mllmx@msn.com

    A 13-YEAR-OLD girl in Bao’an District was recently saved from a critical brain hemorrhage and doctors warn that congenital malformations of the brain can often lead to a very dangerous arterial burst in the brain.

    The girl, identified as Xiao Ling, collapsed during a nap at her middle school last month, the Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital said Thursday. Xiao was rushed to the hospital and doctors found that her pupils were dilated.

    “Our initial judgment was that she was suffering from a brain hemorrhage, and it was highly possible that a herniation had formed inside her brain,” said Prof. Wang Qiujing, director of the hospital’s neurosurgery department.

    “Brain herniation is usually the last signal a patient sends to the doctors,” Wang said.

    CT brain imaging found a 110-ml hemorrhage inside Xiao’s brain. Within an hour after Xiao’s collapse, doctor’s began surgery on her brain to remove a cluster of deformed blood tissue. By the end of the surgery, Xiao’s pupils were almost normal and on the next day, she could move her head and hands.

    “A brain hemorrhage in youngsters is usually caused by congenital malformations of brain tissues and usually has no premonitory signs,” said Wang.

    “The smaller the malformation is or if there is an aneurysm inside, the higher the possibility that a tissue will burst. It’s often very dangerous once there is a hemorrhage.”