Neurological Disorders

Department of Medicine, Tehran Medical Branch Islamic Azad University, Iran

Publications

• Research   
  Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Hemorrhages in Brain Death Patients
  Author(s): Parvaneh Hassani*, Ziya Oddin Ahmadi, Shadi Halimi, Mehdi Abbasi, Sajad Besharati, Ali Sarreshtehdari, Mehran Shafiee and Rahele Khademi
  
  Background: Given the severity of the brain death burden and its main cause in emergency clinical settings, intracerebral hemorrhage due to concussion, determining the most common type of hemorrhage among these patients, helps us to predict the likelihood of progression of the vegetative outcome. Purpose: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of different types of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with brain death. Material and methods: 70 head traumatic brain dead patients who were referred to Masih Daneshvari hospital undergone assessment by CT scan to determine the prevalence of major intracranial hemorrhage types and their complications. Results: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SDH) are the most common types of intracranial hemorrhage among patients wi.. Read More»
  DOI: : 10.4172/2329-6895.10.6.501

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