This study evaluated the prevalence and specificity of diagnostic criteria for postconcussional syndrome (PCS) in 178 adults with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 104 with extracranial trauma. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and Internat...
the type of transplant and the presence of risk factors, but also with the clinical criteria used for SOS/VOD diagnosis. At present, the incidence is ~10–15% after allogeneic HCT (allo-HCT) conditioned with a myeloablative conditioning (MAC) regimen, against <5% after autologous HCT and all...
This review focuses on the rules attempting to determine the need for cranial CT in the emergency department and the impact of mild head injuries in young athletes. We describe in detail standardized guidelines for appropriate diagnosis and treatment and discuss the association between repetitive minor...
Patients with indolent lymphomas are predominantly found to have advanced-stage disease (stage III and IV) at diagnosis. Although effective therapies exist for patients found to have early-stage disease (stage I or II, nonbulky), the patients with advanced disease are incurable. Fortunately, the ...
A variety of markers have been characterized for chronic GVHD diagnosis, but here we present those with application as risk assignment biomarkers (Table 3), which according to FDA BEST recommendations [28] are biomarkers associated with increased risk of developing a condition in an individual who ...
One of the initial objectives was to convene a consensus meeting to define the neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of CTE. The primary objective for the first meeting was to determine whether CTE was a distinctive tauopathy that could be reliably distinguished from other tauopathies using...
Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a term usedto describe a syndrome of paroxysmal, episodic sympathetichyperactivity occurring after any acquired brain injury secondaryto varied etiologies.1 This condition was first described by WilderPenfield in a post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) patient. ...
Participants were excluded if they were admitted directly from an outside hospital or if the diagnosis code did not meet criteria.Results:N = 33 patients presented with moderate or severe TBI, of which 17 had PC consult. There were no significant between-group demographic differences. Significant...