Objective: Early and sufficient nutritional support is vital to improve outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury. This study aims to determine the effects of dietitian involvement in the nutritional and clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injuries admitted to the neurosurgical ICU. Materials & Methods: Forty eight male patients with traumatic brain injuries admitted to P...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence and severity of traumatic brain injury in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional study with prospective neurological, neuropsychological and neuroradiological examinations and retrospective medical record review. PATIENTS Thirty-one consecutive, traumatic spinal cord injury patients on their first post-acute rehabilitation ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the contents of participation outcome measures in traumatic brain injury with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for traumatic brain injury. METHOD A systematic search with an independent review process selected relevant articles to identify outcome measures in participation in traumatic brain injury. Instruments used in...

15 cases of delayed post-traumatic haemorrhage of the brain are described. the lucid interval varied from 2 hours to one month. in at least seven cases a predisposing factor had been present. the importance of small angioma as a factor in young people has been emphasized. clinical and pathological aspects and treatment discussed.

BACKGROUND Traumatic brain injuries are common and costly to hospital systems. Most of the guidelines on management of traumatic brain injuries are taken from the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines. This is a review of the current literature discussing the evolving practice of traumatic brain injury. DATA SOURCES A literature search using multiple databases was performed for articles publishe...

Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is still a major health problem in the world. It might cause long-term disability that affect socio-economic life and become nation burden. Post-traumatic cerebral edema develop commit to an unfavorable prognosis. Aquaporin 4 (AQP4) water channel protein key regulator of metabolism brain. Although mechanism AQP4 regulation post-traumatic remains contro...

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF VITAMIN D IN PREVENTING PROGRESSION TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES RELYING ON PROCESS TAUPATHY AND NEUROINFLAMMATION: A REVIEW STUDY

Brain injury is a damage to the brain, not congenital or degenerative, but caused by an attack physical impact from outside. Traumatic brain (TBI) that occurs when force transmitted head body causes neuropathological and dysfunction. TBI one of most common injuries worldwide. This disorder affects 2% world's population each year leading cause death serious disability in children young adults. G...

conceptually traumatic brain injury (tbi) can be classified from a mechanistic perspective as: 1) closed, 2) penetrating, 3) blast, and 4) crush injuries. thus, tbi is a heterogeneous disease and each type of brain injury has different characteristic features often necessitating different approaches to management. the first edition of the guidelines for management and prognosis of penetrating b...