Sentences with phrase «head injury patients»
As new treatments mean more head injury patients will able to fully recover and return to their everyday lives.
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Head injury patients do not benefit from a therapy that involves cooling their bodies to reduce brain swelling, research has found.
«Head injury patients develop brain clumps associated with Alzheimer's disease.»
Further studies of acute head injury patients are ongoing and planned in Sweden and abroad.
«These findings highlight a big opportunity to improve outcomes for head injury patients,» said the study's senior author, M. Kit Delgado, MD MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology.
«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»
THURSDAY, July 13, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Scientists report they have discovered biological differences in the brains of head injury patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
«This is a preliminary study, and it's important to stress that these head injury patients didn't have Alzheimer's disease.
«Although previous research has shown that some head injury patients have these amyloid plaques shortly after the incident, these findings suggest these plaques are still present in the brains of patients over 10 years later.
In the head injury patients, the amyloid plaques were found to be centred mainly in two brain areas: the posterior cingulate cortex — a highly active area in the centre of the brain involved in controlling attention and memory, and the cerebellum — a region at the base of the brain involved in motor control and coordination.
UC San Diego Health researchers begin collecting information on approximately 1,000 head injury patients to identify the most successful treatment approaches.
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