Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke.
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and invalidity worldwide. Objective: To explore whether traumatic brain injury may be a risk factor for subsequent stroke and to evaluate the role of other risk factors correlated with TBI and stroke. Methods: We analysed...
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Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery
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| author | Entela Basha Altin Kuqo P. Djamandi Jera Kruja |
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| description | Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and invalidity worldwide.
Objective: To explore whether traumatic brain injury may be a risk factor for subsequent stroke and to evaluate the role of other risk factors correlated with TBI and stroke.
Methods: We analysed 643 patients presented in the emergency department of Trauma UHC, from 1stof June 2011 - 1st of December 2011. We evaluated the following factors: age, gender, and severity of head trauma, type of head trauma, systemic hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes mellitus.
Results: During 1-year of follow upperiod 32 (4.97%) strokes occurred in TBI patients. The evaluation was done in correlation with the other risk factors taken into account in the study.
Conclusions: The role of TBI is underestimated in the evaluation of stroke. This study demonstrated that during the first year after TBI, 13.53 % of patients experienced stroke. After careful statistical cor-relations with the selected co-morbidities, we found that the diagnosis of stroke was strongly related with TBI. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9835e680df164e83bff1d25af7f8477d2022-12-22T03:37:02ZengAlbanian Society for Trauma and Emergency SurgeryAlbanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery2521-87782616-49222018-01-012110.32391/ajtes.v2i1.4444Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke.Entela Basha0Altin Kuqo1P. Djamandi2Jera Kruja3Stroke Unit Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, AlbaniaNeurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, AlbaniaNeurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, AlbaniaNeurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, AlbaniaBackground: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and invalidity worldwide. Objective: To explore whether traumatic brain injury may be a risk factor for subsequent stroke and to evaluate the role of other risk factors correlated with TBI and stroke. Methods: We analysed 643 patients presented in the emergency department of Trauma UHC, from 1stof June 2011 - 1st of December 2011. We evaluated the following factors: age, gender, and severity of head trauma, type of head trauma, systemic hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes mellitus. Results: During 1-year of follow upperiod 32 (4.97%) strokes occurred in TBI patients. The evaluation was done in correlation with the other risk factors taken into account in the study. Conclusions: The role of TBI is underestimated in the evaluation of stroke. This study demonstrated that during the first year after TBI, 13.53 % of patients experienced stroke. After careful statistical cor-relations with the selected co-morbidities, we found that the diagnosis of stroke was strongly related with TBI.http://journal.astes.org.al/index.php/AJTES/article/view/44stroketraumatic brain injuryrisk faktors |
| spellingShingle | Entela Basha Altin Kuqo P. Djamandi Jera Kruja Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery stroke traumatic brain injury risk faktors |
| title | Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. |
| title_full | Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. |
| title_fullStr | Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. |
| title_short | Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. |
| title_sort | predictive factors and the role of traumatic brain injury in stroke |
| topic | stroke traumatic brain injury risk faktors |
| url | http://journal.astes.org.al/index.php/AJTES/article/view/44 |
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