Forces that impact or are peripherally transmitted by an engorged internal jugular vein load intracranial blood vessels instantaneously.
The corresponding rises in local venous pressure load the brain abruptly, unbalanced by parallel rises in the cerebrospinal fluid pressure or brain tissue pressure.
The harder a peripheral venous impact, the rather it will concuss the brain.
My suggestion was to consider retrograde venous impacts rising in the direction of the brain as a potential pathogenic factor first in indirect or endogenous forms of TBI.
To focus, thereby, on apparently unexplainable vein-related or patently vein-induced forms of brain damage.
Having come across and sought to elucidate a condition characterized by Dawson's fingers rising along inner and bulbar cerebral veins, I wonder who might, after my retirement, carry on.
Who might realize it was in many patients' and our common interest.
Paul O Mcgaffey, is it the subtle (manifestations?) that need to be spoken of first?
Isn't it rather the most serious effects which call for attention?
Or the routes which venous impacts individually take?
Be it via internal or external cerebral or, even earlier, bulbar or ophthalmic veins?
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