Acute Imaging Findings Predict Recovery of Cognitive and Motor Function after Inpatient Rehabilitation for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pediatric Brain Injury Consortium Study.

ABSTRACT: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children; survivors experience long-term cognitive and motor deficits. To date, studies predicting outcome following pediatric TBI have primarily focused on acute behavioral responses and proxy measures of injury severity; unsurprisingly, these measures explain very little of the variance following heterogenous injury. In adults, certain acute imaging biomarkers help predict cognitive and motor recovery following moderate to severe TBI. This multi-center, retrospective study, characterizes the day-of-injury computed tomographic (CT) reports of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients (2 months to 21 years old) who received inpatient rehabilitation services for TBI (n = 247). The study also determines

SUBMITTER: Caliendo ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8418527 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature