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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"brain oedema"”.
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On Brain Oedema
Traumatic brain injury and bacterial meningitis may at a glance appear as two different disease entities. The host reaction, however, to both trauma and infection involves a strong inflammatory response, with the classical symptomology of rubor, tumor, calor, dolor et functio laesa. Tumor, …
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Contusion Progression in Traumatic Brain Injury
Cerebral contusions that result from brain trauma have the propensity to enlarge over the days following injury, including extension of the haemorrhage core and swelling of the surrounding peri-contusional brain. This secondary injury increases the likelihood of death and severe disabil- ity, and …
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The role of substance P in experimental intracerebral haemorrhage.
… found following ischaemic stroke and traumatic brain injury. Inhibiting the main SP receptor (neurokinin-1 (NK1)) reduces oedema and improves functional outcome in both settings. As this thesis details, we hypothesised that SP plays a similarly deleterious role following intracerebral …