Traumatic brain injury: Current treatment strategies and future endeavors

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1118-1130

  Galgano, Michael ^a   Toshkezi, Gentian ^a   Qiu, Xuecheng ^a,b   Russell, Thomas ^a   Chin, Lawrence ^a   Zhao, Li Ru ^a,b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial hypertension; Management; Traumatic brain injury; Treatment strategies

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; PROTEIN S100B;

ANIMAL MODEL; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CELL THERAPY; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONCUSSION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EXTRA AXIAL HEMATOMA; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HYPEROSMOLAR THERAPY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MEDICALLY INDUCED COMATOSE STATE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKULL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION;

EID: 85032013761     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: 15553892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963689717714102     Document Type: Review

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