Our findings characterize injury severity, etiology, symptomology, and outcome in patients with acute TBI presenting to a Trauma Level I teaching institution.
CT is considered the first-line imaging methodology, and the most sensitive method for characterizing ocular trauma in patients with a suspected IOFB [ 4].
The acute phase response is a complex systemic response to e.g. bacterial infection, tissue injury, and trauma characterized by up- and down regulation of blood levels of a variety of proteins, termed acute phase proteins, such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and Serum Amyloid A (SAA) [ 6, 7].
SCI in mice resulted in severe trauma characterized by edema, neutrophil infiltration, and production of inflammatory mediators, tissue damage, apoptosis, and locomotor disturbance.
SCI in mice resulted in severe trauma characterized by edema, neutrophil infiltration, and production of a range of inflammatory mediators, tissue damage, and apoptosis.
SCI in mice induced by the application of vascular clips (force of 24 g) to the dura via a four-level T5-T8 laminectomy, resulted in severe trauma characterized by edema, neutrophil infiltration and loss of myelin in lateral and dorsal funiculi.
More than 80% of all patients were characterized by minor trauma (ISS = 1).
This indicates that events characterized by both trauma and loss contribute uniquely to a psychological profile that encompasses both PTSD and PGD symptoms.
Most people are exposed throughout their lives to at least one event capable of eliciting an emotional response of such high magnitude as to be characterized as "psychological trauma", according to the DSM –IV [ 8].
Although some programs include in vivo exposure [ 29] or sharing traumatic experiences within the group [ 28], they are best characterized as non-trauma-focused treatments as they do not comprise exposure to the trauma memory as a main ingredient.
