OBJECTIVE To discover the expression of visfatin and its genetic mutation and clinical significance in patients with traumatic brain injury. METHODS 99 cases of traumatic brain injury patients admitted to Chongqing Emergency Medical Center from June 2013 to December 2014. There were 56 male and 43 female with an average age of 45.2 years. Through diagnosis, the 99 patient's conditions were al...

INTRODUCTION Traumatic brain injury has a considerable socio-economic impact, being a major cause of morbi-mortality, often with permanent disability. We sought to characterize health resource utilization of adult traumatic brain injury patients in Portugal between 2000 and 2010. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study of medical records of adult patients with ICD9 diagnostic code of traumat...

this paper reports multidisciplinary treatment of a dental trauma case to achieve a favorable prognosis. a healthy 14-year-old girl reported avulsion of teeth 11 and 21 which had occurred three months earlier. the initial treatment consisting of replantation with a semi-rigid splint was performed in hospital. at presentation, the patient was still using the semi-rigid splint. the clinical exami...

objective: to determine the prediction value of disorder of consciousness scale (docs) for consciousness recovery after traumatic brain injury (tbi) leading to coma. methods: this is a descriptive-cross-sectional study of the correlation between the level of patients’ consciousness in the first and second weeks and the first 2 months after traumatic brain injury, using docs scale. results: the ...

OBJECT Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a poor prognostic factor for traumatic brain injury. The authors aimed to further investigate neurological outcome among head injury patients by examining the prognostic values of CT patterns of traumatic SAH, in particular, the thickness and distribution. METHODS The study was conducted using a database in a regional trauma center in Hong Kon...

BACKGROUND Nociceptive and neuropathic pain occurs as part of the disease process after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. Central and peripheral inflammation, a major secondary injury process initiated by the traumatic brain injury event, has been implicated in the potentiation of peripheral nociceptive pain. We hypothesized that the inflammatory response to diffuse traumatic brain injury...

two dogs with generalized seizures were evaluated. the dogs were diagnosed with traumatic intracranial hemorrhages based on the history, neurological examinations, and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the brain. treatment was started with oxygen, prednisolone and anticonvulsant agents. no further seizure activity was observed after treatment in both dogs, however cushing reflex was detected ...

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purpose: blast-induced traumatic brain injury (btbi) is one of the causes of death or permanent   invalidity which can occur unexpectedly in both military and civilian populations. this study   set out to conduct a combined eulerian-lagrangian computational analysis of the interaction   between a single planar blast wave and a human head in order to assess the extent of intracranial   shock wav...

Traumatic brain injury is a serious global health problem with irreversible high morbidity and disability and Because of its unknown pathophysiological mechanisms, efficient therapeutic approaches to improve the poor outcome and long-term impairment of behavioral function are still remains lacking. The microglial cells are the resident macrophage cells of the brain and have M1/M2 phenotype, for...