Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major cause of dementia in elderly populations. There are numerous risk factors leading to AD occurrence and development, such as age, depression, obesity, diabetes, and hypertension [1,2,3,4]. Recently, in addition to two feature pathologic characterizations, am...
2004a, b). However, a multi-centre randomized control trial assessing the use of treatment at 34°C for 72 h in patients with high grade encephalopathy and ICP monitoring failed to show any benefit in preventing the development of intracranial hypertension or survival compared to management at ...
Glodzik et al. reviewed the impact effect of blood pressure in cognitively intact elderly people with and without hypertension. They noted that only people with hypertension who had an overall reduction in mean arterial pressure (MAP) showed decreased memory and increased CSF p-tau181 levels. In ...
European epidemiological data show that traumatic brain injury (TBI) mainly affects elderly patients [1,2]. A considerable proportion of elderly individuals are on oral anticoagulants due to cardiovascular problems. TBI is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality in older patients [3,4]...
Alternatively, blood tests for brain injury may not be as obviously and tangibly convincing for clinicians who may still feel compelled to perform a CT of the head to rule out a brain bleed. What is the new hope presented with the recent approval of Abbott’s Alinity i TBI test? The new...