一名19岁的学生在美容吸脂术结束时出现了通气不足和紫癜。她醒了,但是严重的混乱，迷失方向，由于严重的运动失调而无法站立和行走。神经心理学评估显示精神运动缓慢，以及记忆编码和检索的缺陷，在执行方面，以及视觉空间和视觉感知测试；口头理解和建构实践得以保留。üH-MRS显示NAA降低。一年后,她的认知和神经学检查,NAA恢复正常,她恢复了正常的生活.缺氧性脑病急性表现的严重程度并不总是导致预后不良。
A 19-year-old student developed hypoventilation and cyanosis at the end of a cosmetic liposuction procedure. She was awake, but severely abulic, disoriented, and unable to stand and walk due to severe locomotor ataxia. Neuropsychological evaluation showed psychomotor slowness, and deficits in memory encoding and retrieval, and on executive, and visuospatial and visuoperceptual tests; oral comprehension and constructional praxis were spared. ¹H-MRS showed a reduction of NAA. A year later, her cognitive and neurological exam, and NAA returned to normal, and she resumed her normal life. The severity of the acute manifestations of hypoxic encephalopathy not always entail a poor prognosis.
