Volume 65 Number 4 September 1998	back to contents

Multiple Cerebral Infarction in Japanese Breath-Hold Divers: Two Case Reports	280
Kiyotaka Kohshi, Yoshimasa Kinoshita, Haruhiko Abe, and Toshio Okudera

ABSTRACT
We report on two Japanese breath-hold divers who developed neurological disturbances following more than 3 hours of consecutive dives to 15 - 25 meters of seawater. Their magnetic resonance images of the brain showed multiple cerebral infarcts which were consistent with their neurological symptoms. The cerebral lesions seem to have been caused by repetitive breath-hold dives for extended periods of time. Immediate recompression is required when neurological symptoms develop after such dives.

KEY WORDS
dysbaric accident, decompression sickness, breath-hold diving, Japanese male divers, cerebral infarction, magnetic resonance imaging, diving

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