ReviewCurrent translational geriatrics and experimental gerontology reports2012
Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Is it as Bad as we Think?
Review in Current translational geriatrics and experimental gerontology reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of the qualitative literature on older individuals' experiences of care and well-being during physical rehabilitation for acquired brain injury.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Adherence to Guidelines in Adult Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Living Systematic Review.Journal of neurotrauma · 2021Pooled it
- Health outcomes and health-seeking behaviour following traumatic brain injury among older people: a prospective cohort study in Bangladesh.Frontiers in aging · 2025Article
- The role of routine cranial CT imaging in geriatric head trauma: a retrospective analysis from a level I trauma centre in Germany.Brain & spine · 2025Article
- Sex differences and gender-oriented characteristics in intensive care unit admissions for patients with traumatic brain injury in Spain.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- The death of a neurotrauma trial lessons learned from the prematurely halted randomized evaluation of surgery in elderly with traumatic acute subdural hematoma (RESET-ASDH) trial.Brain & spine · 2024Article
- Outcome after decompressive craniectomy in older adults after traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The impact of age and intensity of treatment on the outcome of traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Cognition and Behavior in the Aging Brain Following TBI: Surveying the Preclinical Evidence.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- The Effects of Early Life History of TBI on the Progression of Normal Brain Aging with Implications for Increased Dementia Risk.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Rehabilitation of Older Asian Traumatic Brain Injury Inpatients: A Retrospective Study Comparing Functional Independence between Age Groups.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Neurosurgical treatment in elderly patients with Traumatic brain injury: A 20-year follow-up study.Brain & spine · 2023Article
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- Craniotomies following acute traumatic brain injury in Finland-a national study between 1997 and 2018.Acta neurochirurgica · 2022Article
- Incidence of emergency neurosurgical TBI procedures: a population-based study.BMC emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Predictors of Mortality, Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures, and Discharge Disposition in Octogenarians with Subdural Hematomas.World neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Optical coherence tomography microscopy in experimental traumatic brain injury.Microscopy research and technique · 2021Article
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- Traumatic brain injury-the effects of patient age on treatment intensity and mortality.BMC neurology · 2020Article
- Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department: Epidemiology, Outcomes and Risk Factors Predicting the Prognosis.Advanced journal of emergency medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
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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