ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2013
Decompressive craniectomy for management of traumatic brain injury: an update.
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- Decompressive craniectomy for the treatment of high intracranial pressure in closed traumatic brain injury.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Neuroprotection: Surgical approaches in traumatic brain injury.Surgical neurology international · 2024Review
- Surface Area of Decompressive Craniectomy Predicts Bone Flap Failure after Autologous Cranioplasty: A Radiographic Cohort Study.Neurotrauma reports · 2021Article
- Split Calvarial Grafting for Closure of Large Cranial Defects: The Ideal Option?Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery · 2019Article
- Chapter 12: Decompressive Craniectomy: Long Term Outcome and Ethical Considerations.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
- Traumatic Brain Injury: Current Treatment Strategies and Future Endeavors.Cell transplantation · 2017Review
- Pathophysiology and Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children.The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses · 2016Article
- According to which factors in severe traumatic brain injury craniectomy could be beneficial.Surgical neurology international · 2016Article
- Pathophysiology and clinical management of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury in the ICU.Seminars in neurology · 2015Review
- Comprehensive cognitive and cerebral hemodynamic evaluation after cranioplasty.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2014Article
- Bone graft absorption complication following cranioplasty: A retrospective institutional study.Medicine internationalArticle
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Abstract
Decompressive craniectomy (DC) for the management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) has a long history but remains controversial. Although DC has been shown to improve both survival and functional outcome in patients with malignant cerebral infarctions, evidence of benefit in patients with TBI is decidedly more mixed. Craniectomy can clearly be life-saving in the presence of medically intractable elevations of intracranial pressure. Craniectomy also has been consistently demonstrated to reduce "therapeutic intensity" in the ICU, to reduce the need for intracranial-pressure-directed and brain-oxygen-directed interventions, and to reduce ICU length of stay. Still, the only randomized trial of DC in TBI failed to demonstrate any benefit. Studies of therapies for TBI, including hemicraniectomy, are challenging owing to the inherent heterogeneity in the pathophysiology observed in this disease. Craniectomy can be life-saving for patients with severe TBI, but many questions remain regarding its ideal application, and the outcome remains highly correlated with the severity of the initial injury.
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