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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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The Silent Epidemic of Road Traffic Injury: What Can Music Therapists do About It?

Voices, 2008
Can music therapists do anything about road traffic injury and its effects? Road traffic crashes are responsible for up to 1.2 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries globally each year. One quarter of these injuries are traumatic brain injuries. In
Simon Gilbertson
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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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Introduction. Traumatic brain injury [PDF]

Neurosurgical Focus, 2019
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Valadka, Alex B., Maas, Andrew I. R., Servadei, Franco   +2 more
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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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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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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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Methylphenidate Rehabilitation Effect in Severe Head Injury

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2004
Background: Annually, millions of people are affected by traumatic brain injuries which cause long - lasting sequels such as cognitive or motor system dysfunctions. Methylphenidate, a neurostimulant drug, has been proposed as a therapeutic agent in brain
M Saboori, M Nourian
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Characteristics of traumatic brain injury-related healthcare visits across social determinants of health: A population-based birth cohort study.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundTraumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, with almost half of new cases occurring in children, adolescents, and young adults.
Vincy Chan, Clarissa Serafine Wirianto, Robert Balogh, Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, Michael David Escobar   +4 more
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