Loss of Consciousness and Altered Mental State as Predictors of Functional Recovery Within 6 Months Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Autor: Haris I. Sair, Kathleen T. Bechtold, Uju Ofoche, Constantine G. Lyketsos, Allen D. Everett, Haijuan Yan, Freshta Akbari, Frederick K. Korley, Hayley Falk, Vani Rao, Matthew E. Peters, Jeannie Marie Sheppard Leoutsakos, Tim Van Meter, Alexandra Vassila, Durga Roy, Anna J. Hall
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 32:132-138
ISSN: 1545-7222
0895-0172
DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.18120379
Popis: The authors tested the hypothesis that a combination of loss of consciousness (LOC) and altered mental state (AMS) predicts the highest risk of incomplete functional recovery within 6 months after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), compared with either condition alone, and that LOC alone is more strongly associated with incomplete recovery, compared with AMS alone.Data were analyzed from 407 patients with mTBI fromA gradient of risk of incomplete functional recovery at 1, 3, and 6 months postinjury was noted, moving from neither LOC nor AMS, to LOC or AMS alone, to both. LOC was associated with incomplete functional recovery at 1 and 3 months (odds ratio=2.17, SE=0.46, p0.001; and odds ratio=1.80, SE=0.40, p=0.008, respectively). AMS was associated with incomplete functional recovery at 1 month only (odds ratio=1.77, SE=0.37 p=0.007). No association was found between AMS and functional recovery in patients with no LOC. Neither LOC nor AMS was predictive of functional recovery at later times.These findings highlight the need to include symptom-focused clinical variables that pertain to the injury itself when assessing who might be at highest risk of incomplete functional recovery post-mTBI.
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