Search Results - "Okonkwo, David"
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Telling the Whole Story: Bibliometric Network Analysis to Evaluate Impact of Media Attention on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Research
Published in Journal of neurotrauma (01-01-2023)“…There is a national debate regarding the existence of a relationship between contact sport participation and future risk of neurodegenerative disease. We…”
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Prognostic Models for Traumatic Brain Injury Have Good Discrimination but Poor Overall Model Performance for Predicting Mortality and Unfavorable Outcomes
Published in Neurosurgery (01-01-2023)“…The most extensively validated prognostic models for traumatic brain injury (TBI) are the Corticoid Randomization after Significant Head Injury (CRASH) and…”
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Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Phase-II: A Phase II Randomized Trial
Published in Critical care medicine (01-11-2017)“…A relationship between reduced brain tissue oxygenation and poor outcome following severe traumatic brain injury has been reported in observational studies. We…”
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Serum GFAP and UCH-L1 for prediction of absence of intracranial injuries on head CT (ALERT-TBI): a multicentre observational study
Published in Lancet neurology (01-09-2018)“…More than 50 million people worldwide sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. Detection of intracranial injuries relies on head CT, which is overused…”
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Intracranial pressure thresholds in severe traumatic brain injury: we are not sure: Prudent clinical practice despite dogma or nihilism
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Complications from Multimodal Monitoring Do not Affect Long-Term Outcomes in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Published in World neurosurgery (01-05-2022)“…Invasive neuromonitoring is a mainstay of modern management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Complication rates of neuromonitor placement are widely…”
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Central Cord Syndrome Is Likewise a Surgical Emergency-Time Is Spine
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Rho Inhibitor VX-210 in Acute Traumatic Subaxial Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Design of the SPinal Cord Injury Rho INhibition InvestiGation (SPRING) Clinical Trial
Published in Journal of neurotrauma (01-05-2018)“…Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with a lifetime of disability stemming from loss of motor, sensory, and autonomic functions; these losses,…”
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Emerging Safety of Intramedullary Transplantation of Human Neural Stem Cells in Chronic Cervical and Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury
Published in Neurosurgery (01-04-2018)“…Abstract BACKGROUND Human central nervous system stem cells (HuCNS-SC) are multipotent adult stem cells with successful engraftment, migration, and…”
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Magnetic resonance imaging improves 3-month outcome prediction in mild traumatic brain injury
Published in Annals of neurology (01-02-2013)“…Objective To determine the clinical relevance, if any, of traumatic intracranial findings on early head computed tomography (CT) and brain magnetic resonance…”
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Applying the Sliding Scale Approach to Quantifying Functional Outcomes Up to Two Years After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Published in Journal of neurotrauma (01-06-2024)“…Outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be represented by a sliding score that compares actual functional recovery to that predicted by illness…”
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Letter to the Editor: Caveats for the Unconventional Animal Model of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Bridge Too Far?
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Response to Daneshvar and Rovito, " Letter to the Editor: Telling the Whole Story: Articles Linking Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Repetitive Head Impacts Have Higher Journal Impact Factors" (DOI: 10.1089/neu.2022.0374)
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Cis P-tau is induced in clinical and preclinical brain injury and contributes to post-injury sequelae
Published in Nature communications (17-10-2017)“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is characterized by acute neurological dysfunction and associated with the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)…”
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Spreading depolarisations and outcome after traumatic brain injury: a prospective observational study
Published in Lancet neurology (01-12-2011)“…Summary Background Pathological waves of spreading mass neuronal depolarisation arise repeatedly in injured, but potentially salvageable, grey matter in 50–60%…”
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Inverse neurovascular coupling to cortical spreading depolarizations in severe brain trauma
Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-11-2014)“…Cortical spreading depolarization causes a breakdown of electrochemical gradients following acute brain injury, and also elicits dynamic changes in regional…”
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Comparing Plasma Phospho Tau, Total Tau, and Phospho Tau-Total Tau Ratio as Acute and Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarkers
Published in JAMA neurology (01-09-2017)“…Annually in the United States, at least 3.5 million people seek medical attention for traumatic brain injury (TBI). The development of therapies for TBI is…”
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Sub-classifying patients with mild traumatic brain injury: A clustering approach based on baseline clinical characteristics and 90-day and 180-day outcomes
Published in PloS one (11-07-2018)“…The current classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) into "mild", "moderate", or "severe" does not adequately account for the patient heterogeneity that…”
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Financial burden associated with the residency match in neurological surgery
Published in Journal of neurosurgery (01-01-2017)“…OBJECTIVE Application for a residency position in neurosurgery is a highly competitive process. Visiting subinternships and interviews are integral parts of…”
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