The race for biomarkers in traumatic brain injury: What science promises and the clinicians still expect

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 318-319

  Stocchetti, Nino ^a   Longhi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cerebrospinal fluid; Prognosis; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UBIQUITIN;

ANEURYSM; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 74049164056     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b9d5ac     Document Type: Editorial

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