Accuracy of acute hyperglycemia as a biomarker of severe brain damage in children with traumatic brain injury.
José Roberto Tude MeloChiara Maria de Brito TischerFernanda Paiva Augusto RodriguesJúlia Calviello GiordanoLarissa Ferreira Gomes de OliveiraStephannie Monaco BodraJean Gonçalves DE OliveiraJosé Carlos Esteves VeigaPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2024)
Victims with GCS ≤ 8 are 16 times more likely to develop acute hyperglycemia after TBI when compared to those with GCS > 8. Blood glucose is a biomarker with an accuracy of 84% to predict severe brain injury, considering the cutoff point of 200 mg/dL or 11.1 mmol/L.
Keyphrases
- brain injury
- traumatic brain injury
- blood glucose
- liver failure
- drug induced
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- respiratory failure
- cerebral ischemia
- early onset
- aortic dissection
- young adults
- oxidative stress
- severe traumatic brain injury
- hepatitis b virus
- white matter
- blood pressure
- resting state
- adipose tissue
- multiple sclerosis