When anoxia affects your brain, it's typically called cerebral anoxia-hypoxia or an anoxic-hypoxic brain injury. Anoxia is an extreme medical emergency. Your organs can't function or survive ...

The causes of CVI are varied (see Figure 1) with the most common causes being hypoxic or anoxic brain damage. Hypoxic brain damage results from the reduction of oxygen supply to a tissue, which can ...

Hypoxic (very low oxygen) and anoxic (no oxygen) zones are caused by excessive nutrient pollution, often from human activities such as agriculture, which results in insufficient oxygen to support ...