Low blood caspase-8 levels in survivor patients of traumatic brain injury.
Leonardo LorenteMaría M MartínAntonia Pérez-CejasAgustín F González-RiveroLuis Ramos-GómezJordi Solé-ViolánJuan J CáceresCarmen Ferrer-MoureAlejandro JiménezPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)
To our knowledge, this is the first series describing blood caspase-8 concentrations in patients with TBI. The association of high blood caspase-8 concentrations with mortality was the main new finding of the study. However, further investigations are needed to validate the preliminary results of our study.