Patient with dysexecutive syndrome after brain injury - case report

Łanowy Patrycja, Szczygieł Jarosław. Patient with dysexecutive syndrome after brain injury - case report. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):715-723. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3459081 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7496 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 25.08.2019. Revised: 31.08.2019. Accepted: 22.09.2019. Patient with dysexecutive syndrome after brain injury - case report Patrycja Łanowy1a, Jarosław Szczygieł1b 1I Department of Neurological Rehabilitation , “Repty” Upper Silesian Rehabilitation Centre, Tarnowskie Góry, Poland E-mail adresses: patrycjalanowy@gmail.com1a, jwszczygieł@gmail.com1b ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury is usually caused by multiple kinds of falls, violence with head injury or traffic incidents. In this article, we describe the case of a 51-years-old patient with craniocerebral trauma, requiring the introduction into a pharmacological coma. The patient was diagnosed with a hemorrhagic contusion of the frontal lobes with numerous intracerebral hematomas, significant local cerebral edema, hematomas at the cerebral frontal and temporal lobes, subarachnoid bleeding in the cerebellar tent. After the brain injury patient demonstrates features of the dysexecutive syndrome, her disability on the Rankin’s scale was rated with 5 grade. Thanks to properly selected drug therapy and conducting properly targeted rehabilitation, the patient's condition improved spectacularly, and the patient gained independence. Keywords: DES, frontal lobe syndrome, TBI, traumatic brain injury, brain contusion, rehabilitatio