Research progress in immunological mechanism of delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning

Abstract

Delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poisoning (DEACMP) is a syndrome constituted by acute dementia, psychiatric symptoms, pyramidal and extrapyramidal symptoms, which can be developed after the original clinical symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning recovered. Lots of studies have been done to explain the mechanisms of DEACMP, and more and more researches have demonstrated that the immunological mechanism may be involved in or play an important role on the pathogenesis of the process. This article will review the researches of immunological mechanism of DEACMP in recent years and give some prompts to clinical study in the future.

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2014.10.006