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ReviewCureus2022

Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarkers.

Kengo Nishimura, Joacir G Cordeiro, Aminul I Ahmed, Shoji Yokobori, Shyam Gajavelli

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Review in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The impact of adolescent traumatic brain injury on health risk behaviors.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Kengo NishimuraNeurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, USA.
Joacir G CordeiroNeurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, USA.
Aminul I AhmedWolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, London, GBR.
Shoji YokoboriDepartment of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Neurosurgical Emergency, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, JPN.
Shyam GajavelliNeuroscience, Lacerta Therapeutics, Alachua, USA.
Nippon Medical School Hospital · JPCenter for Neurosciences · USNippon Medical School · JPUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is increasingly a major cause of disability across the globe. The current methods of diagnosis are inadequate at classifying patients and prognosis. TBI is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. There is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for TBI yet. It took about 16 years of preclinical research to develop accurate and objective diagnostic measures for TBI. Two brain-specific protein biomarkers, namely, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 and glial fibrillary acidic protein, have been extensively characterized. Recently, the two biomarkers were approved by the FDA as the first blood-based biomarker, Brain Trauma Indicator™ (BTI™), via the Breakthrough Devices Program. This scoping review presents (i) TBI diagnosis challenges, (ii) the process behind the FDA approval of biomarkers, and (iii) known unknowns in TBI biomarker biology. The current lag in TBI incidence and hospitalization can be reduced if digital biomarkers such as hard fall detection are standardized and used as a mechanism to alert paramedics to an unresponsive trauma patient.

Indexed as

brain trauma indicatorgfapneurologic prognosisprognostic biomarkersserum biomarkerstraumatic brain injuryuchl-1

Identifiers

PMID35392277
PMCPMC8978594
OpenAlexW4223639472

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Registered trials

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