introduction guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is an immune-mediated acute inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system. infectious agents were usually accused of playing a role in the etiology of gbs. guillain-barre syndrome has rarely been reported following subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage after head trauma. case presentation we report on a 63-year-old male patient presenting gbs f...

traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death in developed countries. it is estimated that only in the united states about 100,000 people die annually in parallel among the survivors there is a significant number of people with disabilities with significant costs for the health system. it has been determined that after moderate and severe traumatic injury, brain parenchyma is affected by m...

the incidence of traumatic brain injury (tbi) are annually increasing, developed tissue engineering methods could represent the definite remedies for patients with strongly injured central nervous system and have a great effect in the public healthcare cost. the current clinical treatments in tbi display several limitations. furthermore, several therapies, coming from neural tissue engineering ...

the sex hormone progesterone has been shown to improve outcomes in animal models and two early-phase trials involving patients with traumatic brain injury (tbi). the aim of this clinical study was to assess the effect of progesterone on the improvement of neurologic outcome in patients with diffuse and acute tbi. a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of progesterone was conducted in our...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is one the most common cause of disability between young adults. these people have been socially isolated during post-surgery traumatic brain injury. in this study we investigated the effect of social isolation on the structural deficits after tbi in the young rats. young rats were divided into control group with social interaction, sham group with social isolation ...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) results from a sudden and external physical impact to the head, and often leads to motor and cognitive impairment. using tissue engineering strategies, we aimed to review aspects of extra cellular matrix (ecm) based scaffold that could be delivered to the injured brain. the ecm is produced intracellularly and secreted to form a dense network of proteins and glycans,...

catatonia is a syndrome that can be treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ect). hence, onset of catatonia during treatment of patients with ect is not expected. in this manuscript, a schizoaffective disorder patient with a positive history of traumatic brain injury and no consumption of benzodiazepines is being reported, who became catatonic during ect.

OBJECTIVE Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening injury requiring urgent surgical intervention. Despite recent improvements in resuscitation and emergency operative techniques, the outcomes of patients with multiple injuries are still associated with a high mortality rate. We retrospectively examined the preoperative demographic data, associated complications and mortalit...

Increasing evidence supports a role for contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the assessment of blunt abdominal trauma. Accurate definition of organ injury can be demonstrated, as well as extension to solid organ capsule and even vascular injury. Low-dose contrast is needed for renal imaging, to avoid obscuration of deeper structures from intense cortical enhancement. The liver should be evaluated in...