17^th Annual Brain Death Congress

Brain Death Causes

While a person got an irreversible and catastrophic brain injury that causes the total cessation of the brain function which leads to brain death.  Major causes of brain death are severe traumatic injury, cerebrovascular injury like stroke, anoxia due to heart attack, brain tumor etc. Brain infections, tumors, traumatic injury are responsible for brain swelling and for that brain loses its functions. Sometimes hypertension may cause bleeding in the brain that leads to brain death.