Clinical: Doctors all consistently positive saying things are going well. Currently they are reducing sedation bringing the patient out of an artificial coma.
April 22, sister reported that patient recognized her, responded to commands, and appeared to laugh at a joke.
April 23, father notes seems in light sleep with patient's typical restlessness when sleeping. This is very different from absolute stillness during the full artificial coma period (which lasted a week). Patient never concious. Occasionally opened right eye, but didn't fix on anything.
Doctors consistently report that patient responds to pinches by reaching for pinched area.
Definite right side weakness (injury on left). April 23 patient spontaneously moved right leg. Right limbs respond. Weak (won't last) not paralyzed (might last). So OK I guess.
Today (April 24) should reveal more
Here is the referto of the MRI. See the key point is that there is contusion but not detectable ischemia (suspected some small areas of ischemia somewhere). The effects should be temporary. Also Dr Veneziani says the bruised area has no known function -- when it is removed to remove a tumor, there are no known effects. So very good my effort to translate Exam rquested and executed in basal conditions with sequence t1,t2,presente, flair, GRE T2 amd with sequences weighed in diffusion according to axial, sagitale and coronal axes and with an axial sequence aiming in correspondende to the “tratto di rachide” C-4-C6 Extensive craniotomy temporal and fronto- parietal on the left. A collection of extracerebrale fluid collected near the surgical breach of maximum thickness of 18mm. Frontal and temporal bilaterally (walways more evident on the left, there is an extensive area of hyperintensity in the FLAIR and T2 sequences with some characteristics also of a hypointense component i
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