Jimu news reporter Chen Lingyan
Video clip Chen Lingyan
Correspondent Ding Yanfei
What happens when I stay up late for a long time? If you don't get it right, it will be fatal. The 21-year-old female college student stayed up late for a long time, resulting in cerebral thrombosis, convulsions all over the body, paralysis of the right limb, loss of language function, and her life was in danger, but fortunately she snatched a life back in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. After three months of treatment, she finally recovered as before, and the Lantern Festival returned to the hospital to thank the doctors and nurses for their life-saving grace.
Staying up late for a long time and always getting up early, suddenly suffering from severe illness hangs on the line
Ye Zi (pseudonym) is a sophomore at a university in Wuhan, where he studies hard and has a wide range of interests. She used to stay up late, often going to bed at three or four o'clock in the morning, getting up at seven o'clock in the morning, and going to class on time. On November 18 last year, near noon, Ye Zi suddenly suffered severe head pain in the dormitory, and his right hand gradually could not be lifted. She thought she was too tired during that time, so she lay down and rested. About half an hour later, she woke up to the exclamations of her roommates. Her roommate told her that her whole body was convulsing for several minutes and everyone was terrified. The roommate called an ambulance and took the leaf to the hospital near the school. CT examination shows an arachnoid cyst of the right temporal pole and an oedema of the apical lobe of the left frontotemporum. After being admitted to the hospital, Ye Zi had two more convulsions, foaming at her mouth, and after receiving treatment such as tracheal intubation, anti-epileptics, and dehydration at that hospital, she could not be relieved, and in the early morning of the next day, she was transferred to the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and admitted to the Neurology Department.
Liu Yumin, chief physician of the department, led the team and conducted a series of examinations for her. After another day, the leaf condition continued to deteriorate, and the MRI results showed that the local venous vessels in her brain were thickened, and at this time she was hemiplegic, aphasia, and loss of consciousness in her right limb. Chief physician Liu Yumin and chief physician Mei Bin believe that she is most likely suffering from a dangerous disease - intracranial venous sinus thrombosis. This thrombus can cause venous and cerebrospinal fluid return disorders, causing cerebral edema, and if the thrombosis is not done in time for interventional surgery, it is likely to cause permanent damage or life-threatening.
After learning about this situation, Yezi's parents immediately trusted the doctor's judgment and immediately operated to remove the embolus.
Overnight surgery saved her life, and rehabilitation helped her return to normal
In the early morning of November 21 last year, Deputy Chief Physician Li Huagang and his team urgently performed cerebral angiography and intravenous embolism for Ye Zi, and during the operation, the upper sagittal sinus thrombosis was indeed found. After 4 hours of hard work, the operation was successfully completed, and after the operation, Ye Zi continued to receive symptomatic supportive treatments such as sedation, anticoagulation, anti-epileptic, stomach protection, nutrition, and dehydration in the intensive care unit to prevent complications.
After Leaf escaped, the neurological rehabilitation team began to train her in language function and right limb movements. Liu Xi, deputy chief physician of tube bed doctor, introduced that this rehabilitation process is not easy, but Ye Zi has shown great strength and has been actively cooperating with an optimistic attitude. On the fourth day after the operation, she was able to say simple words, and half a month after the operation, her legs began to regain their ability to move independently. After being transferred to the general ward, she recovered in the third week after the operation to be able to stand on her own and speak more fluently. By the fourth week after the operation, she was able to walk around the house a few times with the support of the nurse... Ye Zi's father choked up and said, "I didn't dare to imagine that my daughter could recover to this extent before." ”
In mid-December last year, Ye Zi was discharged from the hospital. She said that she would make a video of this treatment experience and encourage her to continue to do rehabilitation training when she returned home.
On February 15 this year, it was the Lantern Festival, and Ye Zi returned to the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University for re-examination and had recovered better. She and her parents went to the neurology ward to visit the medical staff who had treated her. She said: "You not only saved my life, but also have been encouraging and helping me to get back to normal life, thank you so much to the medical staff!" She also mentioned that when her hands were not yet flexible, the nurse sister washed her hair; when she was depressed, the nurses went to buy her milk tea, "These warmths, I remember in my heart, will never forget." ”
Li Huagang introduced that the leaves stay up late for a long time and do not like to eat breakfast, which are most likely to be the triggers for venous sinus thrombosis, "Bad living habits will lead to blood concentration, physical decline, and weakness of the body." He said that Yezi can recover so well, on the one hand, thanks to the doctor's accurate judgment and timely treatment, as well as postoperative rehabilitation and nursing, on the other hand, it is also inseparable from her own strength and optimism.