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Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think?
Traumatic brain injury in elderly patients is a neglected global disease burden. The main cause is fall, followed by motor vehicle accidents. This review article summarizes different aspects of geriatric traumatic brain injury, including epidemiology, pathology, and effects of comorbidities and pre-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24014175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13670-012-0017-2 |
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author | Mak, Calvin H. K. Wong, Stephen K. H. Wong, George K. Ng, Stephanie Wang, Kevin K. W. Lam, Ping Kuen Poon, Wai Sang |
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description | Traumatic brain injury in elderly patients is a neglected global disease burden. The main cause is fall, followed by motor vehicle accidents. This review article summarizes different aspects of geriatric traumatic brain injury, including epidemiology, pathology, and effects of comorbidities and pre-injury medications such as antiplatelets and anticoagulants. Functional outcome with or without surgical intervention, cognitive outcome, and psychiatric complications are discussed. Animal models are also reviewed in attempt to explain the relationship of aging and outcome, together with advances in stem cell research. Though elderly people in general did fare worse after traumatic brain injury, certain “younger elderly” people, aged 65–75 years, could have a comparable outcome to younger adults after minor to moderate head injury. |
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spelling | pubmed-37585132013-09-04 Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? Mak, Calvin H. K. Wong, Stephen K. H. Wong, George K. Ng, Stephanie Wang, Kevin K. W. Lam, Ping Kuen Poon, Wai Sang Curr Transl Geriatr Exp Gerontol Rep Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementia (K Wang, Section Editor) Traumatic brain injury in elderly patients is a neglected global disease burden. The main cause is fall, followed by motor vehicle accidents. This review article summarizes different aspects of geriatric traumatic brain injury, including epidemiology, pathology, and effects of comorbidities and pre-injury medications such as antiplatelets and anticoagulants. Functional outcome with or without surgical intervention, cognitive outcome, and psychiatric complications are discussed. Animal models are also reviewed in attempt to explain the relationship of aging and outcome, together with advances in stem cell research. Though elderly people in general did fare worse after traumatic brain injury, certain “younger elderly” people, aged 65–75 years, could have a comparable outcome to younger adults after minor to moderate head injury. Springer US 2012-07-06 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3758513/ /pubmed/24014175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13670-012-0017-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementia (K Wang, Section Editor) Mak, Calvin H. K. Wong, Stephen K. H. Wong, George K. Ng, Stephanie Wang, Kevin K. W. Lam, Ping Kuen Poon, Wai Sang Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title | Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title_full | Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title_fullStr | Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title_full_unstemmed | Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title_short | Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think? |
title_sort | traumatic brain injury in the elderly: is it as bad as we think? |
topic | Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementia (K Wang, Section Editor) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24014175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13670-012-0017-2 |
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