Neurological Disorders

Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Publications

• Research   
  The Effect Of Curcumin In The Recovery Of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial
  Author(s): Mohammadreza Saatian, Masoumeh Roustaei, Ebrahim Jalili*, Sara Ataei, Ali Poormohammadi, Maryam Farhadian and Ali Abdoli
  
  Background: Traumatic brain injury is one of the most important causes of death in trauma patients among the different types of trauma worldwide. In this study, the effect of Nano curcumin on the outcome of severe traumatic brain injury, which was performed in humans for the first time, was investigated. Methods: This was a double blind and paralleled randomized controlled study that was conducted on 128 patients aged 18 to 70 with severe brain trauma. Patients were randomly assigned to two control groups (Standard care treatment+placebo) and an intervention group (Standard care treatment+oral Nano curcumin with the dose of 500 mg every 8 hours for three weeks). Changes in the level of consciousness, cerebral edema, kidney function, liver enzymes, sodium and potassium electrolytes, and brain function of patients in both groups were.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6895.10.9.515

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