Pulmonary contusion
Non-conventional management of bilateral pneumothorax and pulmonary contusion with high-flow oxygen therapy and prone position
... and pulmonary contusion, managed with high-flow oxygen therapy and intermittent prone position during his stay in the intensive care unit, with satisfactory evolution until his ...emphysema. ...
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Ten-year retrospective analysis of multiple trauma complicated by pulmonary contusion
... post-traumatic pulmonary contusion could sustain damage to the small airways, alveoli and capillaries, destruction of endothelial cells and epithelial cells, and an increase of pulmonary capillary ...
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Antioxidant vitamins C, E and coenzyme Q10 vs Dexamethasone: comparisons of their effects in pulmonary contusion model
... by local and systemic immunological alterations [8-10]. Cytokines, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and proteolytic enzymes released from macrophages and leucocytes in- crease the alveolo- capillary membrane permeability ...
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Delayed Death from Complete Aortic Transection: Case Report
... The goal of initial approach to trauma patient or primary survey is to exclude immediate life threatening injuries, which are airway obstruction, tension pneumothorax, open pneumothorax, severe flail chest, massive ...
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Study of various factors influencing the outcome in patients with blunt injury chest
... of pulmonary secretions and early ambulation will prevent pulmonary ...When pulmonary contusion coexists the likelihood of intubation ...
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Better short-term efficacy of treating severe flail chest with internal fixation surgery compared with conservative treatments
... from pulmonary injuries, and the mean ISS scores were ...of pulmonary contusion, ISS scores, and APACHE II scores between the two groups (Table ...
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A New Model to Study Healing of a Complex Femur Fracture with Concurrent Soft Tissue Injury in Sheep
... reproducible contusion injury to the subcutaneous soft ...tissue contusion injury in sheep and demonstrate the estab- lishment of a clinically relevant experimental model, for research aimed at improving ...
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Impact of contusion injury on intramuscular emm1 group a streptococcus infection and lymphatic spread.
... GAS tropism for draining lymph nodes was reported to be enhanced by a specific interaction between the bac- terial hyaluronan capsule and the lymphatic vascular endothelial receptor, LYVE-1 [22]. In the current work, ...
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Penetrating Scrotal Injury: Two Unusual Case Reports in Children and Brief Review of Literature
... However, blunt trauma to the scrotum can cause testicular dislocation, testicular haematocoele, testicular rupture, traumatic testicular torsion, testicular contusion and scrotal haematoma [22,23] where ultrasound ...
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A novel diagnostic sign of hip fracture mechanism in ground level falls: two case reports and review of the literature
... injury. Her medical history revealed chronic atrial fibrilla- tion and past hypotensive episodes but without falls. A physical examination showed only left lower extremity findings. Her left lower extremity was held in a ...
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The Search for Optimal Management of Head Injury
... A further group of secondary insults relate to the formation of secondary intracranial mass lesions (hematoma, swollen contusion) which produce both brain shift with[r] ...
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CT of Brainstem Injury
... The CT d iagnosis of primary brainstem injury requires demonstration of di rect evidence, such as hemorrhage, edema, or contusion, or indirect evidence, such as complete obliteration of [r] ...
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Radiological Parameters to Predict Hemorrhagic Progression of Traumatic Contusional Brain Injury.
... intracerebral contusion is a frequent factor culminating in death and disability, and its progression relates to unfavorable ...year. Contusion volume was quantified using the “ABC/2” technique, whereas ...
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Results: Out of 341 patients with head injury, 107 (33.1%) patients had traumatic intracranial hemorrhage
... Head injury is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Road traffic accidents are mainly responsible for mortality and morbidity in cases of head injury. The frequencies of intracranial hemorrhage in ...
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Ultrasonographic Imaging and Anti-inflammatory Therapy of Muscle and Tendon Injuries Using Polymer Nanoparticles
... assay. Contusion injury in triceps surae muscles caused the significant upregulation of Bax and downregulation of Bcl-2 compared to the sham, which are typical phenotypes associated with apoptosis ...the ...
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Estimation of the Age of Cutaneous Contusions in Child Abuse
... Embarrassing discrepancies can arise between the appearance of a contusion in a color photograph and its description by the physician when the length of time between photographing the ch[r] ...
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Computed Tomography Findings of Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients with Head Trauma Presenting at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
... haemorrhagic contusion with ICH and mass effect [16], SVD with (brain atrophy, ICH, enlarged perivascular spaces and hydrocephalus) [18], and brain atrophy with ICH ...
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Transplantation of Olfactory Mucosa as a Scaffold for Axonal Regeneration Following Spinal Cord Contusion in Rats
... Object: The inability of the spinal cord to regenerate after SCI is due to the extremely limited regenerative capacity of most central nervous system (CNS) axons, along with the hostile environment of the adult CNS, ...
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Isolated Unilateral Adduction Paresis of the Right Eye Due to a Contusion in the Subnucleus of Oculomotor Nerve
... A 45-year old man presented with diplopia after falling from a tree. His past medical history was unremarkable. On physical examination, there was only soft tissue edema on the right temporal region about 4x5 cm in ...
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Optical coherence tomography patterns and outcomes of contusion maculopathy caused by impact of sporting equipment
... with contusion maculopathy of commo- tion retinae and traumatic macular ...with contusion maculopathy secondary to sport related ocular trauma using ...
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