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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of traumatic brain injury in Lebanon: A systematic review.
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- From Physiology to Pathology of Astrocytes: Highlighting Their Potential as Therapeutic Targets for CNS Injury.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Review
- Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Assess Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Risk Factors.Neurotrauma reports · 2023Article
- Traumatic Brain Injury Cases' Mortality Predictors, Association, and Outcomes in the Emergency Department at a Tertiary Healthcare Center in Saudi Arabia.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Construction of a lncRNA-associated competing endogenous RNA regulatory network after traumatic brain injury in mouse.Molecular brain · 2022Article
- Assessment of non-progressive dysarthria: practice and attitude of speech and language therapists in Lebanon.BMC neurology · 2021Article
- Minocycline attenuates neuronal apoptosis and improves motor function after traumatic brain injury in rats.Experimental animals · 2021Article
- Targeting NRF2 to suppress ferroptosis in brain injury.Histology and histopathology · 2021Review
- Does implementation of the PECARN rules for minor head trauma improve patient-centered outcomes in a lower resource emergency department: a retrospective cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Inducing Post-Traumatic Epilepsy in a Mouse Model of Repetitive Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2020Article
- Preparation and Evaluation of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin Loaded Tween 80-Albumin Nanoparticle for Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment.International journal of nanomedicine · 2020Article
- MicroRNAs: The New Challenge for Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis.Current neuropharmacology · 2020Review
- Estrogen Formation and Inactivation Following TBI: What we Know and Where we Could go.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Review
- Inhibition of ferroptosis attenuates tissue damage and improves long-term outcomes after traumatic brain injury in mice.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2019Article
- Repetitive Diffuse Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Causes an Atypical Astrocyte Response and Spontaneous Recurrent Seizures.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in adult victims of cluster munitions in Lebanon: a 10-year longitudinal study.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Astrocyte-mediated mechanisms contribute to traumatic brain injury pathology.WIREs mechanisms of diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a debilitating medical and emerging public health problem that is affecting people worldwide due to a multitude of factors including both domestic and war-related acts. The objective of this paper is to systematically review the status of TBI in Lebanon - a Middle Eastern country with a weak health system that was chartered by several wars and intermittent outbursts of violence - in order to identify the present gaps in knowledge, direct future research initiatives and to assist policy makers in planning progressive and rehabilitative policies.
methodsOVID/Medline, PubMed, Scopus databases and Google Scholar were lastly searched on April 15, 2016 to identify all published research studies on TBI in Lebanon. Studies published in English, Arabic or French that assessed Lebanese patients afflicted by TBI in Lebanon were warranting inclusion in this review. Case reports, reviews, biographies and abstracts were excluded. Throughout the whole review process, reviewers worked independently and in duplicate during study selection, data abstraction and methodological assessment using the Downs and Black Checklist.
resultsIn total, 11 studies were recognized eligible as they assessed Lebanese patients afflicted by TBI on Lebanese soils. Considerable methodological variation was found among the identified studies. All studies, except for two that evaluated domestic causes such as falls, reported TBI due to war-related injuries. Age distribution of TBI victims revealed two peaks, young adults between 18 and 40 years, and older adults aged 60 years and above, where males constituted the majority. Only three studies reported rates of mild TBI. Mortality, rehabilitation and systemic injury rates were rarely reported and so were the complications involved; infections were an exception.
conclusionApparently, status of TBI in Lebanon suffers from several gaps which need to be bridged through implementing more basic, epidemiological, clinical and translational research in this field in the future.
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