Decorticate Posturing Occur
Decorticate posturing may occur on one or both sides of the body.
Decorticate posturing occur. Posturing has also been displayed by patients with creutzfeldt jakob disease diffuse cerebral hypoxia and brain abscesses. Although it is serious it is usually not as serious as a type of abnormal posture called decerebrate posturing. Specifically it involves slow flexion of the elbow wrist and fingers with adduction and internal rotation at the shoulder.
Diabetic ketoacidosis dka is a common medical emergency in children. Decorticate posture usually results from stroke or head injury. 1 we present a case of a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus who presented in dka and with glasgow coma scale gcs of seven.
Decorticate posturing occurred in 80 decerebrate in 61 and opisthotonic posturing in 22 patients. Posturing was associated with age 3 years 48 1 vs 35 8 p 0 01 and features of raised. However this is not as serious as decerebrate posture wherein the particular kind of posturing appears on both sides of one s body.
There are many causes reported apart from the one discussed before. Decorticate posturing a sign of severe damage to the brain is a specific type of involuntary abnormal posturing of a person. It may be elicited by noxious stimuli or may occur spontaneously.
Decorticate posturing is a sign of damage to the nerve pathway between the brain and spinal cord. Decorticate posture causes main cause reported behind the decorticate abnormal posturing is the severe brain injury. In herniation syndrome which is indicative of brain herniation decorticate posturing occurs and if the condition is left untreated develops into decerebrate posturing.
Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists. Decorticate and decerebrate posturing. This abnormal posturing makes a person suffer from clenched fists bent arms and legs that are held out straight.