Isolated traumatic brain injury in patients with cirrhosis: do different treatment paradigms result in increased mortality?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 80-86

  Langness, Simone ^a   Costantini, Todd W ^a   Smith, Alan ^a   Bansal, Vishal ^a   Coimbra, Raul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver cirrhosis; Model for end stage liver disease; Neurosurgical operation; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ASSAULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOWER EXTREMITY DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RISK; NEUROSURGERY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VENTRICULOSTOMY; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPLICATION; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85002837473     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.06.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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