Advances in the pathogenesis and clinical diagnosis and treatment of cerebral infarction following bee/wasp sting / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Bee/wasp sting associated ischemia stroke is very rare.Its early clinical manifestation,especial level of consciousness,is serious than general cerebral infarction.There is no specificity with laboratory examination.Most of the infarction lesions involve two or two more regions detection by brain computerized tomographic scanning/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI).Parts of the occlusion vessels could recanalization.Therapy with hormones and antihistamine has certain effect.Most of patients have approving prognosis.The pathological mechanism is mainly associated with doctrine such as vascular inflammation,vascular spasm,immune hyperfunction,brain tissue hypoperfusion and retrograde stimulation of the superior cervical ganglion.