High Serum Caspase-Cleaved Cytokeratin-18 Levels and Mortality of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients.

Leonardo LorenteMaría M MartínAgustín F González-RiveroAntonia Pérez-CejasMónica ArguesoLuis RamosJordi Solé-ViolánJuan J CáceresAlejandro JiménezVictor García-Marín

Published in: Brain sciences (2019)

The new findings from our study were that serum CCCK-18 levels at any moment of the first week of TBI were higher in non-surviving patients and were able to predict early mortality.

Keyphrases

traumatic brain injury
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
cardiovascular events
risk factors
cell death
clinical trial
coronary artery disease
signaling pathway