... decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of traumaticbrain injury, these technical improvements are valuable. Key words: Decompressive Craniectomy, TraumaticBrainInjury Introduction Decompressive ... hyper-tension after traumaticbrain injury. Child Nerv Syst 2006;22:1268-1274. 47. Dickerman RD, Morgan JT, Mitller MA. Decompressive cra-niectomy for traumaticbrain injury: when is it too late? Child ... treatment of severe traumaticbrain injury. J Clin Neurosurg 2006;3:124-125. 43. Whitfield PC, Patel H, Hutchison PJ, et al. Bifrontal decom-pressive craniectomy in the management of posttraumatic...
... alternative comple-ment pathway activity after traumaticbraininjury (TBI)Figure 3Functional assessment of mAb 1379 on alternative complement pathway activity after traumaticbrain injury ... complement-mediated neuroinflammatory response after head injury. Background Traumatic braininjury (TBI) represents a neuroinflamma-tory disease which is in large part mediated by an earlyactivation ... controls:(1) A significant attenuation of complement pathwayactivity at the level of the alternative pathway (zymosanassay) and overall at the level of anaphylatoxin formation(C5a ELISA). BioMed...
... function.Background Traumatic braininjury (TBI) disrupts neuronal ionic bal-ance and is known to produce glutamate-mediated neu-rotoxicity [1-3]. Glutamate related activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) ... of traumaticbrain injury. J Neurotrauma 1994, 11:723-732.30. Hamm RJ, O'Dell DM, Pike BR, Lyeth BG: Cognitive impairment following traumatic brain injury: the effects of pre- and post -injury ... Pretreatment with phencyclidine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist, attenuated long-term behavior deficits in rat produced by traumaticbrain injury. J Neurotrauma 1998, 5:259-274.6. Bading H,...
... associated vascular changes This page intentionally left blank Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury 22 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATICBRAIN INJURY Let BID equal the number of brain- injured patientswho ... nature of the exposures associated with brain injury. Despite the limitations of the categorization of exter-nal cause, available data suggest that the most frequenttype of exposure associated ... of population (i.e., United States 2000,280,000,000)H=hospitalization admission rate of braininjury pa-tients in the population (i.e., 0.0011/year)pi=proportion of braininjury patients...
... stria-tum and traumaticbrain injury. Brain Inj 11:577–586,199742. Reider-Groswasser I, Groswasser Z, Ommaya AK, et al:Quantitative imaging in late traumaticbrain injury, part I:late imaging parameters ... adolescents with traumaticbrain injury. Brain Inj 15:211–221, 200153. Wood DG, Bigler ED: Diencephalic changes in traumatic brain injury: relationship to sensory perceptual function. Brain Res Bull ... Rehabilitation Status, and Long-TermOutcome as They Relate to Magnetic Resonance Imaging FindingsAfter TraumaticBrain Injury. ” Brain Impairment 5:S122–123, 2004.ABC 94 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN...
... PTA.FIGURE 9–2. Temporal relationships of coma, confusion, and posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) after traumatic brain injury. Coma and levels of confusion (delirium) after traumaticbrain injury, with PTA occurring ... neuropsychia-tric evaluation and treatment of the patient with trau-matic braininjury (TBI).Role of the NeuropsychologistIn the traumatically brain- injured population, the neu-ropsychologist ... contrecouplocation known from the patient’s injury history.The authors noted that in the symptomatic TBIgroup, the MSI findings made “clinical sense” with re- 202 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATICBRAIN INJURY lower...
... facilitate referral of patients without brain injury to psychologists with expertise in treating this population.For patients with brain injury, particularly mild TBI, wehave found that an interdisciplinary ... TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATICBRAIN INJURY Vestibular RehabilitationTechniques of therapy have been developed for patientswith various vestibular disorders. These have been used in brain- injury populations, ... and mental functioning pre- and postinjurySleep pattern and duration pre- and postinjuryType and severity of brain injury Various treatments received since injury Alcohol and substance abuse...