BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Imaging studies of traumatic brain injury demonstrate that the cerebellum is often affected. We aim to examine fractional anisotropy alteration in acute-phase mild traumatic brain injury patients in cerebellum-related white matter tracts. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study included 47 mild traumatic brain injury patients in the acute stage and 37 controls. MR ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To minimize diagnostic confusion, a CSF specimen should be free from traumatically introduced red blood cells (RBCs). The purpose of this research is to determine if patient age, sex, gauge of the lumbar puncture (LP) needle, or the level of LP is associated with an increased risk for traumatic fluoroscopy-guided LP. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were collected retrospecti...

HYPOTHESIS The use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) during repair of traumatic aortic injuries is associated with a decreased incidence of postoperative paraplegia and mortality. DESIGN AND SETTING Historical cohort study with contemporaneous but nonrandomized controls in a tertiary care hospital from July 1, 1988, through December 31, 1999. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Consecutive cas...

OBJECTIVE Stroke is the second most common cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability. Both stroke patients and their family can therefore experience increased traumatic stress level. METHODS The participants are close relatives of patients (n=65) who had a first time stroke (CRPWS) hospitalized. A control group (CG) (n=61), who had no history of chronic illness in their family ...

INTRODUCTION Pre-hospital intubation by paramedics is widely used in comatose patients prior to transportation to hospital, but the optimal technique for intubation is uncertain. One approach is paramedic rapid sequence intubation (RSI), which may improve outcomes in adult patients with traumatic brain injury. However, many patients present to emergency medical services with coma of non-traumat...

conclusions toxic causes with an incidence of 49.6% were the most common cause of loss of consciousness among all age groups. results among the 123 children under investigation, 76 cases were male (61.8%) and 47 females (38.2%) with the mean age of 3.2 ± 0.64 years. the most common causes of loss of consciousness among children were as follows: toxic causes in 61 patients (49.6%), infectious ca...

The objective of this study was to evaluate psychological features in severely affected patients with complex regional pain syndrome type I- (CRPS-I) related dystonia. Personality traits, psychopathology, dissociative experiences, the number of traumatic experiences, and quality of life were studied in 46 patients. Findings were compared with two historical psychiatric control groups [54 patien...

OBJECTIVE Although a high incidence of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) following traumatic subdural hygroma (SDG) has been reported, no study has evaluated risk factors for the development of CSDH. Therefore, we analyzed the risk factors contributing to formation of CSDH in patients with traumatic SDG. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patients admitted to Hallym University Hospital with t...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental that develops as result of powerful psycho-traumatic effect threatening or catastrophic nature, accompanied by extreme stress, the main clinical manifestations are repeated experiences elements traumatic event in “here and now” situation form flashbacks, recurring dreams nightmares, which more often anxiety panic, but possibly also anger, feelin...

The critical role of ATP-binding cassette B1 (ABCB1) in the function of the blood-brain barrier led us to conducted this prospective study in order to investigate the clinical outcome of patients suffering from severe traumatic brain injury. A total of 182 patients with traumatic brain injury were included in our study. Genotyping of ABCB1 C3435T and G2677T/A was conducted using polymerase chai...