A variety of traumata of central nervous system was caused in the wake of the First World War. Of these traumata, greater emphasis was laid upon head injury in view of its direct connection with death, and a number of therapies have been developed to this end. In the later period, a new type1 of head injury caused by traffic accidents have increased in addition to the head injury caused by war ...

introduction and aims: although a few studies have done in our country in the field of hepatitis d, its risk factors are not clearly known. this study was conducted with the aim of assessing the relative frequency and risk factors of hdv and the correlation between hdv and severity of liver damage. materials and methods: this was a cross sectional study. 280 hbsag positive subjects (including 1...

conclusions the results indicate that a decrease in health status level of veterans, physically and mentally, can affect the health-related qol of their caregiving spouses. results the mean age and standard deviation of veterans and their spouses were 48.5 ± 5.9 and 44.8 ± 7.2, respectively and their number of children ranged between 0-6. our data analysis showed that there was a significant di...

The pathology of shell shock, contemporaneously referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder, has been identified by researchers. Why the brain injury occurs primarily inthe frontal lobes and its ‘distinctive honeycomb pattern of broken and swollen nerve fibres’ was not identified. Every munitions explosion emits a broadband pulse of electromagnetic energy. The electromagnetic energy pulse rea...

Th centue management of cases of head injury has been improving since the turn of the but in this mechanical age their incidence has risen steeply. to mai?r advance in our understanding of the mechanism in head injury we owe the i ^ntlngs of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson before the War. He brought to general notice f?ll0 P?rtance of midbrain dysfunction in the causation of unconsciousness, not only c?...

The effects of blast on biological tissue are documented for some organ systems such as the lung. In the central nervous system (CNS) the mechanism of CNS injury following blast wave is unclear. For example is there a selective effect of blast on varying brain region or white matter bundles. The effect of blast on traumatic brain injury (TBI) has come into particular focus with the Global War o...

During the recent war in Afghanistan (2001-2014), invasive fungal wound infections (IFIs) among US combat casualties were associated with risk factors related to the mechanism and pattern of injury. Although previous studies recognized that IFI patients primarily sustained injuries in southern Afghanistan, environmental data were not examined. We compared environmental conditions of this region...

The blast induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) has become a signature wound of the war on terror 1 . The majority of combat related TBI cases are categorized as mild (mTBI) based on the event history and cognitive symptoms such as: concentration problems, blurred vision, irritability, headaches, sleep disorders and depression 2 . In spite of immense clinical and preclinical research on TBI cur...

BACKGROUND Despite more than a decade of extensive, international efforts to characterize and understand the increased symptom and illness-reporting among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, concern over possible long-term health effects related to this deployment continue. The purpose of this study was to describe the long-term hospitalization experience of the subset of U.S. Gulf War veterans stil...