Focal neurologic deficits do not improve. Patients have extensive burns and systemic signs of sepsis. 3 Septic infarction may affect patients of any age and does not occur during the first week after a burn. Radiologic features do not distinguish septic infarcts from those caused by premorbid vascular disease, but certain clinical points are helpful. 3 Only one burned patient with cerebral aspergillosis has been reported, and it took the form of septic infarction, but Aspergillus is a common cause of systemic infection in patients with burns. Invasive cerebral candidiasis causes mainly microabscesses infarcts are fewer. 3 Embolism of infected material with occlusion of cerebral arteries is a classic complication of infective endocarditis.
aeruginosa meningitis and can occur in the first week of disease. Meningeal infection can extend into the walls of arteries and veins that run through the subarachnoid space, and that may lead to inflammation and occlusion of affected vessels. 3,12 Each infection discussed earlier can cause septic occlusion of cerebral blood vessels, with infarction of brain. Winkelman, in Aminoff's Neurology and General Medicine (Fifth Edition), 2014 Septic InfarctionĬerebral infarction is due more often to complications of the burn than atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, and other premorbid conditions unrelated to the burn.
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