Artykuł podejmuje problem zaopatrzenia pourazowej przepukliny przeponowej, która wystąpiła u 56-letniej pacjentki po urazie wielonarządowym. Nie istnieje wypracowany standard postępowania w sytuacji wystąpienia szerokiego ubytku przepony. Zgodnie z obowiązującą wiedzą medyczną obecność przeponowej towarzyszącymi objawami klinicznymi stanowi wskazanie do interwencji chirurgicznej. budzi wątpliwo...

AIMS A retrospective analysis of children with post-traumatic endophthalmitis was performed to determine if microbiological differences exist between this disease in the paediatric population compared with this disease in adults. METHOD Twelve cases of post-traumatic endophthalmitis in children were analysed to determine characteristics of this disease in youth. Patient ages varied from 18 mo...

After major trauma, the human immune system initiates a series of inflammatory events at the injury site that is later followed by suppression of local inflammation favoring the repair and remodeling of the damaged tissues. This local immune response involves complex interactions between resident cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, soluble mediators such as cytokines and chemokines, ...

Post-traumatic syringomyelia was previously thought to be an infrequent but serious sequel to spinal cord injury. Clinical and CT studies have shown an incidence of between 1% and 5%, but more recently MRI has suggested an incidence of up to 22%. Twenty spinal cords have been examined after death from two days to 43 years after injury. Four had syrinxes, 20% of the series, approaching the incid...

To cite: David J-S, Tassin C, Maury J-M. Thorax Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl2012-203181 Post-traumatic pulmonary hernia is a very rare occurrence of chest trauma, which however remains usually covered by the skin. 2 A young 22-year-old male was recently admitted to our trauma centre after being thrown from a motorcycle against a road guard barrie...

Post-traumatic headaches are one of the most common and controversial secondary headache types. After mild head injury, up to 50% of people develop a post concussion syndrome, which has been controversial for over 135 years. Headache is estimated as present in 30% to 90% of patients after mild head injury. Most headaches are of the tension type, although migraines can increase in frequency or o...

The onset of post-traumatic headache (PTC) occurs in the first seven days after trauma, according to the International Headache Society (IHS) classification. The objective of this study was to evaluate the several forms of headache that appear after mild head injury (HI) and time interval between the HI and the onset of pain. We evaluated 41 patients with diagnosis of mild HI following the IHS ...

BACKGROUND Whilst negative responses to traumatic injury have been well documented in the literature, there is a small but growing body of work that identifies posttraumatic growth as a salient feature of this experience. We contribute to this discourse by reporting on the experiences of 13 individuals who were traumatically injured, had undergone extensive rehabilitation and were discharged fr...