Traumatic Brain Injury: An Update
Journal Title: Surgical Research – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the leading causes of trauma-related mortality and morbidity in the United States.1 An estimated 2.5 million TBI occur annually resulting in 282,000 hospitalization and 50,000 deaths with an estimated economic burden of $141 billion.2 While TBI accounts for 30% of all injury related deaths, survivors face physical and cognitive disabilities together with an increasing risk for neurodegenerative diseases and lasting effects on the individual, the family and the community. The association between TBI and depression, aggressive behavior, attention and memory deficits, cognitive deficit, suicide, premature death, progressive dementia, seizures and even neurodegenerative diseases is well founded.
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El Rasheid Zakaria
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