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Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2002 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious health issue in the United States, killing 100,000 people a year and serving as a source of long-term disability for many more. It is the leading cause of death in patients under the age of 45 years. Successful management of TBI requires first an appreciation that a significant part of the neuronal injury ...
Kama, Guluma, Brian, Zink
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Traumatic brain injuries [PDF]
Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2016 Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are clinically grouped by severity: mild, moderate and severe. Mild TBI (the least severe form) is synonymous with concussion and is typically caused by blunt non-penetrating head trauma. The trauma causes stretching and tearing of axons, which leads to diffuse axonal injury - the best-studied pathogenetic mechanism of ...
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One Health & Risk Management, 2023 Introduction. Traumatic brain injuries are a significant public health issue in both developed and developing countries. In Georgia, traumatic brain injuries remain one of the leading causes of mortality and disability.
Nino CHIKHLADZE +3 more
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 Abstract There is an increasing incidence of military traumatic brain injury (TBI), and similar injuries are seen in civilians in war zones or terrorist incidents. Indeed, blast-induced mild TBI has been referred to as the signature injury of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jane E, Risdall, David K, Menon
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Visualizing traumatic brain injuries
eLife, 2021 Zebrafish larvae models can be used to study the link between seizures and the neurodegeneration that follows brain trauma.
Marc Ekker
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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 Objective: To examine the effect of motion-controlled commercial video games compared with traditional occupational and physiotherapy methods for hand and arm function in persons of all ages with cerebral palsy.
Truls Johansen +3 more
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The epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries in northeastern Iran [PDF]
Payesh, 2023 Objective(s): Traumatic brain injuries are one of the most important causes of deaths and disabilities worldwide. This study was an epidemiological investigation of traumatic brain injuries in northeastern Iran.
Bahareh Payvar +4 more
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CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2020 A head trauma is any injury that results in trauma to the skull, scalp, or brain. Every patient with a suspected head trauma should initially undergo a focused neurological examination which consists of the Glasgow Coma Scale Score (GCS), plus pupillary reactivity, that classifies the traumatic brain injury (TBI) as mild, moderate, or severe.
Julian E. Bailes, Cesar V. Borlongan
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Beyond symptomatic diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury
Concussion, 2023 Plain language summary It is commonly assumed that there is no brain injury if there are no noticeable symptoms following a head impact. There is growing evidence that traumatic brain injuries can occur with no outward symptoms and that the damage from ...
Alice Lux Fawzi, Christian Franck
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Brain-lung interaction: a vicious cycle in traumatic brain injury [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2022 The brain-lung interaction can seriously affect patients with traumatic brain injury, triggering a vicious cycle that worsens patient prognosis. Although the mechanisms of the interaction are not fully elucidated, several hypotheses, notably the “blast ...
Ariana Alejandra Chacón-Aponte +7 more
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