Last updated on March 13, 2014 at 7:08 EDT  Second Impact
Syndrome: A Devastating Injury To The Young Brain  January 1,
2013  New imaging findings  Physicians at Indiana University
School of Medicine and the Northwest Radiology Network
(Indianapolis, Indiana) report the case of a 17-year-old high
school football player with second impact syndrome (SIS). A rare
and devastating traumatic brain injury, SIS occurs when a
person, most often a teenager, sustains a second head injury
before recovery from an earlier head injury is complete. To the
best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first reported case
in which imaging studies were performed after both injuries,
adding new knowledge of the event. Findings in this case are
reported and discussed in “Second impact syndrome in football:
new imaging and insights into a rare and devastating condition.
Case report,” by Elizabeth Weinstein, M.D., and colleagues,
published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of
Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.  The patient sustaine