Sentences with phrase «treating blast injuries»
Hale had long championed face transplants as an option for treating blast injuries.
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«Our research should stimulate renewed clinical interest in developing glucocorticoid therapies to treat blast - induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and other disorders of the central nervous system,» Morrison says.
The lack of knowledge about how an explosive blast injures the brain has hampered efforts to treat these injuries.
The blast - injured slices treated with xenon were not significantly different to uninjured slices at 24 hours and 72 hours after injury, indicating that xenon prevented injury from developing.
Because multiple symptoms common with blast traumatic brain injury are also seen with growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies, perhaps treating these hormone deficiencies will help improve the symptom burden and quality of life for these veterans,» said lead study author Jeffrey S. Taylor, MD, endocrinology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.