Favourable long-term recovery after decompressive craniectomy: the Northern Finland experience with a predominantly adolescent patient cohort.

ABSTRACT: Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is an effective treatment of intracranial hypertension. Correspondingly, the procedure is increasingly utilised worldwide. The number of patients rendered vegetative following surgery has been a concern-a matter especially important in children, due to long anticipated lifetime. Here, we report the long-term outcomes of all paediatric DC patients from an 11-year period in a tertiary-level centre that geographically serves half of Finland. We identified all patients younger than 18 years who underwent DC in the Oulu University Hospital between the years 2009 and 2019. Outcomes and clinicoradiological variables were extracted from the patient records. Mean yearly prevalence of brain injury requiring DC was 1.34/100 000 children-twenty-four patients underwent DC

SUBMITTER: Korhonen TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9463249 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature