Dysautonomia after pediatric brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Dysautonomia after brain injury is a diagnosis based on fever, tachypnea, hypertension, tachycardia, diaphoresis, and/or dystonia. It occurs in 8 to 33% of adults with brain injury and is associated with poor outcome. We hypothesized that children with brain injury with dysautonomia have worse outcomes and prolonged rehabilitation, and sought to determine the prevalence of dysautonomia in children and to characterize its clinical features.

Method

We developed a database of children (n = 249, 154 males, 95 females; mean [SD] age 11 years 10 months [5 y 7 mo]) with traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, stroke, infection of the central nervous system, or brain neoplasm admitted for rehabilitation to The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh between 2002 and 2009. Dysautonomi

SUBMITTER: Kirk KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3393822 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature