OBJECTIVE To explore brain pathology after mild traumatic brain injury by repeated magnetic resonance examination. DESIGN A prospective follow-up study. SUBJECTS Nineteen patients with mild traumatic brain injury presenting with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 14-15. METHODS The patients were examined on day 2 or 3 and 3-7 months after the injury. The magnetic resonance protocol comprised conven...

OBJECTIVES To compare 6 month and 12 month health status and functional outcomes between regional major trauma registries in Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Multicentres from trauma registries in Hong Kong and the Victorian State Trauma Registry (VSTR). METHODS Multicentre, prospective cohort study. Major trauma patients and aged ≥18 years were included. The main ...

The purpose of this study was to clarify any influences by age on the outcome after multiple trauma. 520 patients (age > 20 years) were analysed after inclusion in a 3-year national multi-centre study for polytrauma injured subjects. The patients were recruited from 10 German neurosurgical university departments. Criteria for inclusion were head injury and coma at the time of admittance. The el...

Previous investigations of long-term outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI) have yielded mixed results regarding the predictive power of injury severity and demographic factors. Furthermore, there has been limited investigation of the association between long-term outcome and current cognitive functioning and psychiatric state. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of...

BACKGROUND Hyperhomocysteinemia is a potentially modifiable risk factor for stroke, and may have a negative impact on the course of ischaemic stroke. The role of hyperhomocysteinemia as it relates to stroke in Africans is still uncertain. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and short-term impact of hyperhomocysteinemia in Nigerians with acute ischaemic stroke. We hypothe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to describe the clinical outcome and results obtained in the endovascular therapy of ruptured cerebral aneurysms in the elderly over an 8-year period. We compared endovascular therapy results in patients aged > or =65 and <65 years. METHODS During 1993-1999, 52 patients aged 65 to 85 years (mean age, 71.5+/-4.7 years) were embolized with the use of Guglielmi d...

OBJECTIVE To explore the clinical effects of ultra-early microsurgery (< 24 hours) combined with extraventricular drainage for the treatment of poor-grade aneurysms. METHODS A total of 60 patients with poor-grade aneurysms were randomly divided into a microsurgery combined with extraventricular drainage (MED) group and conventional microsurgery (M) group. The prognosis was comparatively studi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The incidence of poor-grade (Hunt and Hess grade IV and V) subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is higher in elderly patients (>70 years) than in younger groups. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the outcome of these poor grade elderly patients after endovascular treatment. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of 27 patients older than 70 y...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics, treatment outcomes, and prognostic factors in patients with brain abscesses treated in a single institute during a recent 10-year period. METHODS Fifty-one patients with brain abscesses who underwent navigation-assisted abscess aspiration with antibiotic treatment were included in this study. Variable parameters...