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A 54-year-old Type-A male business executive had been experiencing migrainelike headaches. One afternoon he also experienced light-headedness, slurred speech and mildly impaired motor function on his right side. One of his colleagues rushed him to the emergency room of a nearby hospital where blood pressure, blood gases, electrolytes, and an ECG were run. His blood pressure was 195/100 mm Hg, which he said was typical of what he had experienced during the past two years. Blood gases and electrolytes were normal. The ECG showed no arrhythmias but did demonstrate a left axis deviation. The gentleman was admitted to the hospital and a cerebral angiogram was performed which showed left cerebral hemorrhaging.
Why was there impaired motor function on the right side from cerebral hemorrhaging on the left side?
Why was there impaired motor function on the right side from cerebral hemorrhaging on the left side?
Mon, 8 Sep 2014
Hi, welcome to our site. I am Dr Saumya Mittal, MD.
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This is normal. that is how the body functions. The body has its individual prts represented in the brain, its called motor homunculus. The motor humunculus gives fibres that come down to lower brain. Here they cross over- the right side brain fibres turn to left and vice versa
These turned fibres travel down as such in the spinal cord and then from there the nerves arise and the fibers travel from the nerve to the periphery (muscles).
Therefore if here is a damage to left side of the brain, it stops functioning. And the impaired signals from the brain that is not working moves to the right in the lower brain. And the entire right side is thus affected
I hope this helps you.
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Dr Mittal.
MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine), CC (Diabetes Mellitus), DNB (Neurology)
Consultant Physician and Diabetologist
JS Hospital
Ex Apollo Hospital, Delhi
Ex Kailash Hospital, Noida
Read your query. That is a very significant question and i appreciate your problem. I will try my best to answer your query
This is normal. that is how the body functions. The body has its individual prts represented in the brain, its called motor homunculus. The motor humunculus gives fibres that come down to lower brain. Here they cross over- the right side brain fibres turn to left and vice versa
These turned fibres travel down as such in the spinal cord and then from there the nerves arise and the fibers travel from the nerve to the periphery (muscles).
Therefore if here is a damage to left side of the brain, it stops functioning. And the impaired signals from the brain that is not working moves to the right in the lower brain. And the entire right side is thus affected
I hope this helps you.
Please feel free to ask another query. I would be glad to help you. Looking forward to your return query with the details asked so that I can help you further.
(If the answer has helped you, please indicate this)
Best of luck.
Dr Mittal.
MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine), CC (Diabetes Mellitus), DNB (Neurology)
Consultant Physician and Diabetologist
JS Hospital
Ex Apollo Hospital, Delhi
Ex Kailash Hospital, Noida
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