Monitoring and treatment of intracranial pressure are extremely important procedures in the management patients with traumatic brain injury. The monitoring methods currently marketed invasive not suitable for all patients. In addition to risks offered, they available on services. This study aims describe cases five injury different severity who underwent noninvasive acute phase injury, relating...

OBJECTIVE To examine cognitive activity limitations and predictors of outcome 1 year post-trauma in patients admitted to sub-acute rehabilitation after severe traumatic brain injury. SUBJECTS The study included 119 patients with severe traumatic brain injury admitted to centralized sub-acute rehabilitation in the Eastern part of Denmark during a 5-year period from 2005 to 2009. METHODS Leve...

OF DISSERTATION POST-TRAUMATIC SLEEP FOLLOWING DIFFUSE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY By Rachel Kathleen Rowe Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability throughout the world with few pharmacological treatments available for individuals who suffer from neurological morbidities associated with TBI. Cellular and molecular pathological processes initiated at the time of injury de...

chiari malformation type i (cm-i) is a congenital disorder, which is basically a tonsillar herniation (≥ 5 mm) below the foramen magnum with or without syringomyelia. the real cause behind this malformation is still unknown. patients may remain asymptomatic until they engender a deteriorating situation, such as cervical trauma. the objective of this case report is to give a broad perspective on...

mycotic aneurysm of external carotid artery is extremely rare. we herein report a case of external carotid artery (eca) aneurysm following severe traumatic brain injury. a 24-year-old man with severe traumatic brain injury (tbi) following a car accident was referred to rajaee trauma center emergency room affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences in shiraz, iran. he underwent ventricul...

introduction: following a traumatic brain injury (tbi), the excessive release of proinflammatory cytokines is major cause of cerebral edema that can cause permanent neuronal loss. this study examined the changes in brain concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines il-1, il-6, tnf-α and tgf- after different doses of estrogen or progesterone treatment in brain-injured rats at 6 and 24 h post-in...

syringobulbiais very rare condition defined as slit-like fluid cavity in the brain stem. several conditions have been reported to be associated with syringobulbia including neoplasms, spinal cord traumas or lesions such as tethered cord, hind-brain herniation, infections such as meningitis and in isolation.although post-traumatic syringomyelia has been wieldy described previously, traumatic bra...

Traumatic brain injury and intracranial hypertension often require treatment to optimize patient outcome. There are a variety of complex medical conditions that can preclude standard approaches to the treatment of intracranial hypertension. We describe a case where a novel approach using continuous dialysis with trisodium citrate was used to optimize the outcome of a young male with acute renal...