1. Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly and Associated Factors that May Influence Chronicity.
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Wasfie T, Young C, Naisan M, Senger B, Brimmeier A, Sobell FA, Stanbaugh C, Hille J, Hella J, and Barber K
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- Adult, Humans, Aged, Risk Factors, Hematoma, Subdural, Acute diagnostic imaging, Hematoma, Subdural, Acute etiology, Hematoma, Subdural, Acute surgery, Brain Injuries complications, Brain Injuries, Traumatic complications, Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic diagnostic imaging, Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic etiology, Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic surgery
- Abstract
Traumatic acute subdural hematomas (TASDH) is by far the most common traumatic brain injury in adult patients with blunt trauma, who presented to the Emergency Department (ED). One of the serious sequale of TASDH is the development of Chronic Subdural Hematomas (CSD) with associated deterioration in mental status and convulsion.
1,2 Studies to identify the risk factors that favors development of chronicity of TASDH are few and inconclusive. As seen in our prior initial study, there were few factors which were common in those who developed chronicity of their TASDH, and we elected to expand our pool of patients to include those admitted between the years of 2015 and 2021 with ATSDH and identify the common factors associated with development of CSD., Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.- Published
- 2023
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