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Non Traumatic Coma in children is an important pediatric emergency. It has been an enigma for clinicians for many years. To find the cause of coma and to determine the prognosis is a taxing question for the attending clinicians and the primary concern for relatives in every case.
Non-traumatic coma
Study Methods:
Study Population A 60 adult (aged >18 years) patients were included with a diagnosis of acute thromboembolic ischemic stroke within 48 hours after onset, according to clinical picture and imaging findings by brain computed tomography (CT) without evidence of hemorrhage, upon admission
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is local acute phase protein with regenerative properties that become biologic inactive during chronic inflammation and loses the binding affinity to glycosaminoglycan in the extracellular ma-trix. HGF is excreted into the gastrointestinal tract and is not detected in
Several studies have identified fever as an independent predictor of poor outcome in patients with acute stroke. Experimental data and clinical studies indicate that therapeutic hypothermia has neuroprotective effects associated with better clinical outcome, probably through reduction of infarct
We conducted a prospective non-randomized study at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Benha University Hospital, since March 2013 till June 2015, after approval of the study protocol by the Local Ethical Committee. A written informed consent was obtained from eligible women before induction or
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important epidemic encephalitis worldwide, causing approximately 35-50,000 cases and 10-15,000 deaths annually. Half of the survivors have severe neuropsychiatric sequelae, posing a large socio-economic burden on communities that can ill afford it. JE virus
Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a major cause of morbidity and death in the developing world. Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have the potential to prevent meningitis but neither vaccine is available in many countries with limited resources. New (and expensive) antimicrobials have done little
5 PATIENT SELECTION 5.1 Eligibility Criteria
Patients must fulfill all the following criteria to be eligible for admission for the study:
1. Histologically proven central nervous system lymphoma of brain parenchyma with or without leptomeningeal involvement.
2. No evidence of systemic lymphoma.
3.
Introduction
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiac surgery induces in all patients a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that is more pronounced than for other surgical procedures. Depending on the severity of this, myocardial dysfunction, respiratory failure, renal and neurological
Title: Progesterone Treatment of Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury Principal Investigator(s): Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. Institution: Emory University Biostatistician: Vicki Hertzberg, Ph.D. Institution: Emory University Project phase or primary methodology: Phase II pilot, double blind, 4:1