Severe bilateral renal injuries [PDF]
A 5-year-old boy presented to a tertiary institution witholiguria and frank haematuria after being involved in apedestrian motor vehicle accident. Renal US with colourDoppler showed almost total absence of perfusion of theleft kidney, but no evidence of injury to the right kidney.Abdominal CT (Fig.
Janse Van Rensburg P., Andronikou S.
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Prediction of mortality risk in patients with traffic injury: A case study in tabriz hospitals, Iran
Background: Trauma caused by traffic accidents is one of the main causes of mortality in the world. The trauma is a time-dependent condition. Trauma scoring systems help service providers to determine the severity of the injury and mortality risk and ...
Yalda Mousazadeh +4 more
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Computational evidence for an early, amplified systemic inflammation program in polytrauma patients with severe extremity injuries [PDF]
Extremity and soft tissue injuries contribute significantly to inflammation and adverse in-hospital outcomes for trauma survivors; accordingly, we examined the complex association between clinical outcomes inflammatory responses in this setting using in ...
Abboud, Andrew +10 more
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FE Analysis of Motorcycle Helmet Performance under Severe Accidents
A helmet is essential protective equipment for the safety of motorcyclists and their passengers. However, motorcycle accidents can cause severe injuries and fatalities, even when wearing helmets, because the strength of motorcycle helmets lacks head ...
Suphanut Kongwat +2 more
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The role of site and severity of injury as predictors of mental health outcomes following traumatic injury [PDF]
The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of injury site and severity as predictors of mental health outcomes in the initial 12 months following traumatic injury.
Baecher, K. +7 more
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Global Gene Expression Analysis Identifies Age-Related Differences in Knee Joint Transcriptome during the Development of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis in Mice. [PDF]
Aging and injury are two major risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA). Yet, very little is known about how aging and injury interact and contribute to OA pathogenesis.
Christiansen, Blaine A +7 more
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Traumatic brain injury: Age at injury influences dementia risk after TBI [PDF]
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for dementia. New data provide further support for this association and demonstrate the influence of age at injury and injury severity on dementia risk after TBI, revealing that ...
AC McKee +10 more
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Trauma Early Mortality Prediction Tool (TEMPT) for assessing 28-day mortality. [PDF]
Background:Prior mortality prediction models have incorporated severity of anatomic injury quantified by Abbreviated Injury Severity Score (AIS). Using a prospective cohort, a new score independent of AIS was developed using clinical and laboratory ...
Callcut, Rachael A +3 more
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Severe Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]
Background: Inadvertent hyperventilation is associated with poor outcomes from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Hypocapnic cerebral vasoconstriction is well described and causes an immediate and profound decrease in cerebral perfusion. The hemodynamic effects of positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) remain incompletely understood but may be equally ...
David L, Penn +2 more
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Several million traumatic brain injury (TBI) events are reported in the United States annually. However, mild TBI events often go unreported, and mild and repetitive mild TBI conditions are challenging to model. Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have
Lauren J Putnam +4 more
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