Provocative hypothalamopituitary axis tests in severe head injury: Correlations with severity and prognosis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1419-1426

  Della Corte, Francesco ^a   Mancini, Antonio ^a   Valle, Domenico ^a   Gallizzi, Francesca ^a   Carducci, Paolo ^a   Mignani, Vittorio ^a   De Marinis, Laura ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Glasgow Coma Scale; Glasgow Outcome Scale; Growth hormone; Head injury; Hypothalamic releasing factors; Insulin like growth factor I; Prognosis; Prolactin; Thyroid stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LIOTHYRONINE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVOCATION TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031880607     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199808000-00030     Document Type: Article

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