Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism, and Head Trauma The Pathotrajectory of Traumatic Brain Injury /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kreipke, Christian W. (Editor), Rafols, Jose A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Pathology.; Rehabilitation.; Sports medicine.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Sports Medicine.; Biomedicine general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4148-9

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has caught the ear of the general public in the last few years in the context of injuries seen both in athletes and the military.� Despite TBI being situated as a critical problem in society for multiple decades, the underlying pathotrajectory of TBI has only recently be...

Table of Contents:

• Historical perspectives in understanding traumatic brain injury and in situating disruption in CBF in the pathotrajectory of head trauma
• Situating Cerebral Blood Flow in the Pathotrajectory of Head Trauma
• Modeling of traumatic brain injury and its implications in studying the pathology of repeated mild impacts to the head
• The presence of venous damage and microbleeds in traumatic brain injury and the potential future role of angiographic and perfusion magnetic resonance imaging
• Situating the Endothelin System in the pathotrajectory of TBI-induced changes in haemodynamics
• Age and Sex Differences in Cerebral Blood Flow and Autoregulation after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
• New Frontiers in Clinical Trials Aimed at Improving Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury.