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Head Injury- A Maxillofacial Surgeon’s Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Injuries and violence are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. A substantial portion of these injuries involve the maxillofacial region. Among the concomitant injuries, injuries to the head and cervical spine are amongst those that demand ...
MURALEE MOHAN CHOONTHAR, ANANTHAN RAGHOTHAMAN, RAJENDRA PRASAD, S PRADEEP, KALPA PANDYA   +4 more
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Aquaporins in Acute Brain Injury: Insights from Clinical and Experimental Studies

Biomedicines
Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of transmembrane water channel proteins facilitating the transport of water and, in some cases, small solutes such as glycerol, lactate, and urea.
Stelios Kokkoris, Charikleia S. Vrettou, Nikolaos S. Lotsios, Vasileios Issaris, Chrysi Keskinidou, Kostas A. Papavassiliou, Athanasios G. Papavassiliou, Anastasia Kotanidou, Ioanna Dimopoulou, Alice G. Vassiliou   +9 more
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Significance of Elecsys (R) S100 immunoassay for real-time assessment of traumatic brain damage in multiple trauma patients [PDF]

, 2006
Background: The neuroprotein S100 released into the circulation has been suggested as a reliable marker for primary brain damage. However, safe identification of relevant traumatic brain injury (TBI) may possibly be hampered by S100 release from ...
Kirchhoff, Chlodwig, Gippner-Steppert, Cornelia, Mussack, Thomas, Buhmann, Sonja, Jochum, Marianne, Ladurner, Roland, Biberthaler, Peter, Mutschler, Wolf   +7 more
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GFAP positivity in neurons following traumatic brain injuries

, 2021
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a well-established astrocytic biomarker for the diagnosis, monitoring and outcome prediction of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Few studies stated an accumulation of neuronal GFAP that was observed in various brain
Trautz, Florian, Tse, Rexon, Franke, Heike, Hammer, Niels, Ondruschka, Benjamin, Lier, Julia, Matschke, Jakob, Zwirner, Johann   +7 more
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Time to death and its predictors among traumatic brain injury patients admitted to East Amhara comprehensive specialized hospitals, Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study

BMC Neurology
Background Globally, 64–74 million individuals around the world are estimated to sustain traumatic brain injury every year. Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury can lead to a lifetime physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes.
Abdurehman Ayele, Samuel Anteneh, Fatuma Seid Degu, Getenet Dessie, Arega Abebe Lonsako, Alemayehu Anley, Gizew Beyene   +6 more
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High data retrieval rates with SwissPedData for paediatric traumatic brain injuries in children’s hospitals: a multicentre, point-prevalence study

Swiss Medical Weekly
STUDY AIMS: SwissPedNet aims to improve the quality of multicentre research through standardised documentation of routine healthcare data. Therefore, SwissPedData was developed as a set of defined common data elements to be documented in each electronic
Michael von Rhein, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Andreas Meyer-Heim, Sergio Manzano, Gianluca Gualco, Renato Gualtieri, Fabrizio Romano, Alexander Mack, Larissa Hauser-Angst, Michelle Seiler   +9 more
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Treatment for depression following mild traumatic brain injury in adults: A meta-analysis

, 2013
Primary objective: Development of depression after TBI is linked to poorer outcomes. The aim of this manuscript is to review evidence for the effectiveness of current treatments.
Theadom, Alice, Starkey, Nicola J., Barker-Collo, Suzanne   +2 more
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The impact of intimacy and disability on the perception toward rehabilitation processes of a person with traumatic injury [PDF]

, 2003
Plan BThe purpose of this descriptive research study was to investigate any possible interactions between the person with a traumatic injury and their perceptions of rehabilitation processes dependent on their spousal/domestic partner relationship status
Desler, Sandra
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A peptide for targeted, systemic delivery of imaging and therapeutic compounds into acute brain injuries

Nature Communications, 2016
Accurate treatment of traumatic brain injuries, a leading cause of neurological disability and death in young people, is hampered by poor accumulation of drugs in the brain.
Aman P. Mann, Pablo Scodeller, Sazid Hussain, Jinmyoung Joo, Ester Kwon, Gary B. Braun, Tarmo Mölder, Zhi-Gang She, Venkata Ramana Kotamraju, Barbara Ranscht, Stan Krajewski, Tambet Teesalu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Michael J. Sailor, Erkki Ruoslahti   +14 more
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Update in the management of severe traumatic brain injury

Clinical and Biomedical Research, 2014
Traumatic brain injury is the main cause of death and disability in the young population, which presumes a large number of years of potential life lost and a great economic impact.
Eva Esther Tejerina Alvarez, Fernando Frutos Vivar, Irene Cortés Puch, Andrés Esteban de la Torre, José Ángel Lorente Balanza   +4 more
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