PURPOSE The study used a retrospective cohort design to establish long-term mortality rates and predictors of mortality for persons after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD Consecutive records of persons with moderate to severe TBI who were discharged from a large rehabilitation hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the years 1974-1984, 1988 and 1989 were reviewed. RE...

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...

Research on the interplay between eating pathology, emotion dysregulation and negative urgency is needed to inform intervention approaches for patients with disorders non-suicidal self-injury. This study aimed investigate characterization of self-injury considering urgency. cross-sectional evaluated 73 outpatients (14-55 years; 68 women). A cluster analysis was performed using Differences clust...

intracranial hypertension is the largest cause of death in young patients with severe traumatic brain injury. decompressive craniectomy is part of the second level measures for the management of increased intracranial pressure refractory to medical management as moderate hypothermia and barbiturate coma. the literature lack of concepts is their indications. we present a review on the state of t...

AIMS To estimate the prognostic value of injury severity, location of event, and demographic parameters, for symptoms of pediatric traumatic head injury (THI) 4 years later. METHODS Data were collected prospectively from Reykjavik City Hospital on all patients age 0-19 years, diagnosed with THI (n = 408) during one year. Information was collected on patient demographics, location of traumatic...

The Chinese medicine compound, Jisuikang, can promote recovery of neurological function by inhibiting lipid peroxidation, scavenging oxygen free radicals, and effectively improving the local microenvironment after spinal cord injury. However, the mechanism remains unclear. Thus, we established a rat model of acute spinal cord injury using a modified version of Allen's method. Jisuikang (50, 25,...

Introduction: Cerebral edema could be caused by mild or moderate traumatic brain injury. The primary modality for cerebral is head computed tomography (CT), however the interpretation different between radiologists which due to subjectivity. purpose of this study determine radiologist interobserver and intraobserver reliability in on CT injury Sanglah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali.Methods: R...

Abstract Objective Despite the strong evidence suggesting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms negatively impact cognition following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), little is known about this relationship in more severe TBI. This study investigates between PTSD and cognitive performance complicated mild, moderate, severe, penetrating Methods Participants were 137 U.S. military serv...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between environmental enrichment (EE) and hippocampal atrophy in the chronic stages of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data; observational, within-subjects. PARTICIPANTS Patients (N = 25) with moderate to severe TBI. MEASURES Primary predictors: (1) An aggregate of self-report r...

OBJECTIVE To compare the perceived difficulty in use of everyday technology in persons with acquired brain injury with different levels of severity of disability with that of controls. METHODS This comparison study recruited 2 samples of persons with acquired brain injury and controls, comprising a total of 161 participants, age range 18-64 years. The long and short versions of the Everyday T...