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Neurocritical care

This section covers life-threatening diseases of the central or peripheral nervous systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, coma, status epilepticus, intracranial hemorrhages, neurotrauma, delirium, metabolic encephalopathies, severe stroke, anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, central nervous system infections and inflammations, Guillain-Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis crises, intoxications and withdrawal states.

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  1. Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a rare inflammatory disorder characterized by important psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. The literature documents high rates of neuropsychological dysfunction in N-methyl D-...

    Authors: Laura Mori, William Campanella, Lucilla Vestito, Lucio Marinelli, Luana Benedetti, Leonardo Cocito and Carlo Trompetto

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:347

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  2. Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most lethal form of tuberculosis worldwide. Data on critically ill TBM patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) of China are lacking. We tried to identify prognostic factor...

    Authors: Baobao Feng, Xiao Fei, Ying Sun, Xingguo Zhang, Deya Shang, Yi Zhou, Meiyan Sheng, Jiarui Xu, Wei Zhang and Wanhua Ren

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:308

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  3. The investigation of CO2 reactivity (CO2-CVR) is used in the setting of, e.g., traumatic brain injury (TBI). Transcranial color-coded duplex sonography (TCCD) is a promising bedside tool for monitoring cerebral h...

    Authors: Stephanie Klinzing, Federica Stretti, Alberto Pagnamenta, Markus Bèchir and Giovanna Brandi

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:305

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  4. The optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and ONSD/eyeball transverse diameter (ETD) ratio have been proven to be correlated with intracranial pressure. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic roles of ONSD a...

    Authors: Sha Zhu, Chao Cheng, Dianjiang Zhao, Yuanli Zhao, Xianzeng Liu and Jun Zhang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:259

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  5. Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common helminthic infection of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by the larval stage of Taenia solium. Accurate and early diagnosis of NCC remains challenging due to its...

    Authors: Bin Chen, Zheng Chen, Yi-shu Yang, Gui-lan Cai, Xiao-jiao Xu, Hong-zhi Guan, Hai-tao Ren and Hou-zhen Tuo

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:236

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  6. Patients who develop hospital-onset unresponsiveness should be promptly managed in order to avoid clinical deterioration. Pupillary examination through pupillary light reflex is the gold standard method in the...

    Authors: Hyunjo Lee, Soh Hyun Choi, Bobin Park, Yoon-Hee Hong, Han-Bin Lee and Sang-Beom Jeon

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:234

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  7. Neurological outcome and mortality of patients suffering from poor grade subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) may have changed over time. Several factors, including patients’ characteristics, the presence of hydrocep...

    Authors: Elisa Gouvêa Bogossian, Daniela Diaferia, Andrea Minini, Narcisse Ndieugnou Djangang, Marco Menozzi, Lorenzo Peluso, Filippo Annoni, Jacques Creteur, Sophie Schuind, Olivier Dewitte and Fabio Silvio Taccone

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:196

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  8. The spectrum of neurological involvement in COVID-19 is not thoroughly understood. To the best of our knowledge, no systematic review with meta-analysis and a sub-group comparison between severe and non-severe...

    Authors: Ahmed Yassin, Mohammed Nawaiseh, Ala Shaban, Khalid Alsherbini, Khalid El-Salem, Ola Soudah and Mohammad Abu-Rub

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:138

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  9. Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) are amongst the severest sequelae of acquired brain injury. Evidence regarding epidemiology and rehabilitation outcomes is scarce. These knowledge gaps and psycholog...

    Authors: Manju Sharma-Virk, Willemijn S. van Erp, Jan C. M. Lavrijsen and Raymond T. C. M. Koopmans

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:133

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  10. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal perioperative care bundle aimed at the early recovery of patients. Well accepted in gastric and pelvic surgeries, there is minimal evidence in neurosurger...

    Authors: Anirudh Elayat, Sritam S. Jena, Sukdev Nayak, R. N. Sahu and Swagata Tripathy

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:127

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  12. Economic performance may affect public health parameters. This study aimed to determine the time trend of incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and its association with income, presented by GDP (gros...

    Authors: Wei-Chih Lien, Wei-Ming Wang, Jung-Der Wang and Fuhmei Wang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:117

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  13. Anticoagulant assumption is a concern in neurosurgical patient that implies a delicate balance between the risk of thromboembolism versus the risk of peri- and postoperative hemorrhage.

    Authors: Alessandro Prior, Pietro Fiaschi, Corrado Iaccarino, Roberto Stefini, Denise Battaglini, Alberto Balestrino, Pasquale Anania, Enrico Prior and Gianluigi Zona

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:98

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  14. Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a change in physiology resulting from mechanical causes, trauma, or sepsis. Neurological manifestations of FES can vary from mild cognitive changes to coma and even cerebral oede...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Weibi Chen, Yan Zhang, Yingying Su and Yuping Wang

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:82

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  15. Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) may occur after severe brain injury. Two diagnostic entities are distinguished within PDOC: unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS, previously known as vegetative st...

    Authors: Danielle M. F. Driessen, Cecile M. A. Utens, Gerard M. Ribbers, Willemijn S. van Erp and Majanka H. Heijenbrok-Kal

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:69

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  16. During medical imaging, cystic radiation encephalopathy and brain metastasis are difficult to differentiate, and hence they are easily misdiagnosed. To our knowledge, a nasopharyngeal carcinoma recurrence afte...

    Authors: Xuhui Chen, Lijie Ren, Guozhen Qiu and Liming Cao

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:59

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  18. The aim of the study was to determine the role of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) in the prediction of functional status at the end of neurological early rehabilitative treatment.

    Authors: Melanie Boltzmann, Simone B. Schmidt, Christoph Gutenbrunner, Joachim K. Krauss, Martin Stangel, Günter U. Höglinger, Claus-W. Wallesch and Jens D. Rollnik

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:44

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  19. To investigate the feasibility of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring after traumatic brain injury (TBI) by electromagnetic coupling phase sensing, we established a portable electromagnetic coupling phase s...

    Authors: Gen Li, Wang Li, Jingbo Chen, Shuanglin Zhao, Zelin Bai, Qi Liu, Qi Liao, Minglian He, Wei Zhuang, Mingsheng Chen, Jian Sun and Yujie Chen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2021 21:26

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  20. Status epilepticus (SE) is a common neurological emergency condition that especially affects the elderly and old population. Older people with SE frequently have non-convulsive SE (NCSE) and are also at specia...

    Authors: Annekatrin Müller, Anett Schmiedeknecht, Meinhard Mende, Carolin Awissus, Felix Rosenow, Hajo Hamer and Joseph Classen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:438

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  24. Recent studies regarding the effects of erythropoietin (EPO) for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been inconsistent. This study conducts a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to asse...

    Authors: Motao Liu, Amy J. Wang, Yu Chen, Gexin Zhao, Zhifeng Jiang, Xinbang Wang, Dongliang Shi, Tiansong Zhang, Bomin Sun, Hua He, Ziv Williams and Kejia Hu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:399

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  25. Outcome prediction for patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) is essential yet challenging. Evidence showed that patients with DOC lasting 1 year or longer after a brain injury were less likely to reco...

    Authors: Xiaoxia Li, Xufei Tan, Pinyi Wang, Xiaohua Hu, Yan Dong, Xiaotong Zhang and Benyan Luo

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:396

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  26. To investigate whether the administration of intravenous propofol before endotracheal suctioning (ES) in patients with severe brain disease can reduce the sputum suction response, improve prognosis, and accele...

    Authors: Menghang Wu, Xiaorong Yin, Maojun Chen, Yan Liu, Xia Zhang, Tingting Li, Yujuan Long, Xiaomei Wu, Lihui Pu, Maojie Zhang, Zhi Hu and Ling Ye

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:394

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  27. Methamphetamine use is an emerging risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The aim of this study was to investigate the use of urine drug screen (UDS) for identifying methamphetamine-associated ICH.

    Authors: Sahar Osman, Zhu Zhu, Mark Farag, Leonid Groysman, Cyrus Dastur, Yama Akbari, Sara Stern-Nezer, Dana Stradling and Wengui Yu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:392

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  29. Ageing is associated with worse treatment outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). This association may lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy that affects treatment efficacy. The aim of the current study was t...

    Authors: Ola Skaansar, Cathrine Tverdal, Pål Andre Rønning, Karoline Skogen, Tor Brommeland, Olav Røise, Mads Aarhus, Nada Andelic and Eirik Helseth

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:376

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  31. Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) has become a widely performed technique in neurocritical care, which is however known to be accompanied by some risks to the patient. The aim of this pilot study wa...

    Authors: Vera Spatenkova, Eckhard Teschner and Jaroslav Jedlicka

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:374

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  32. For large hemispheric infarction (LHI), malignant cerebral edema (MCE) is a life-threatening complication with a mortality rate approaching 80%. Establishing a convenient prediction model of MCE after LHI is v...

    Authors: Wenzhe Sun, Guo Li, Yang Song, Zhou Zhu, Zhaoxia Yang, Yuxi Chen, Jinfeng Miao, Xiaoyan Song, Yan Lan, Xiuli Qiu, Suiqiang Zhu and Yebin Fan

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:360

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  33. Immune-mediated mechanisms substantially contribute to the Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) pathology, but for unknown reasons, immunotherapy is generally ineffective in patients who have already developed intracta...

    Authors: Zuzana Liba, Martina Vaskova, Josef Zamecnik, Jana Kayserova, Hana Nohejlova, Matyas Ebel, Jan Sanda, Gonzalo Alonso Ramos-Rivera, Klara Brozova, Petr Liby, Michal Tichy and Pavel Krsek

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:359

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  34. In acute large anterior circulation infarct patients with large core volume, we evaluated the role of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) change rates in prediction of malignant progression.

    Authors: Seong-Joon Lee, Mun Hee Choi, Sung Eun Lee, Ji Hyun Park, Bumhee Park, Jin Soo Lee and Ji Man Hong

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:354

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  35. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare neurological condition with many associated risk factors. The presentation varies and consists of seizures, impaired visual acuity or visual field ...

    Authors: Elad Barber, Rijini Nugzar, Vitaly Finkelshtein, Alexander Puzhevsky and Tally Levy

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:330

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  36. Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic pathogen of the central nervous system commonly associated with impaired cell-mediated immunity. We hereby present a case of adult neurolisteriosis where the only immuno...

    Authors: Kostas Patas, Theodoros Mavridis, Katerina Psarra, Vassilis E. Papadopoulos, Georgia Mandilara, Alexandra Tsirogianni, Sophia Vassilopoulou and Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:323

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  37. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), as a type of behavioral therapy, attempts to respond to changes in people’s performance and their relationship to events. ACT can affect sleep quality by providing tech...

    Authors: Nader Salari, Habibolah Khazaie, Amin Hosseinian-Far, Behnam Khaledi-Paveh, Hooman Ghasemi, Masoud Mohammadi and Shamarina Shohaimi

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:300

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  39. COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus SARS-CoV-2. It is widely recognized as a respiratory pathogen, but neurologic complications can be the presenting manifestation in a subset of ...

    Authors: Shelli Farhadian, Laura R. Glick, Chantal B. F. Vogels, Jared Thomas, Jennifer Chiarella, Arnau Casanovas-Massana, Jing Zhou, Camila Odio, Pavithra Vijayakumar, Bertie Geng, John Fournier, Santos Bermejo, Joseph R. Fauver, Tara Alpert, Anne L. Wyllie, Cynthia Turcotte…

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:248

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  40. Mechanical ventilation (MV) with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is commonly applied in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). However, the individual responsiveness of intracranial pressu...

    Authors: Hong Peng Li, Ying Ni Lin, Zhi Hui Cheng, Wei Qu, Liu Zhang and Qing Yun Li

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:234

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  41. Intracranial necrotizing granulomatous space-occupying lesions are sparsely reported in literature. Variability in presenting symptomatology and radiographic features makes diagnostic work-up difficult.

    Authors: Kerilyn N. Godbe, Brian F. Saway, Evin L. Guilliams, John J. Entwistle and Robert W. Jarrett Jr

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:230

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  42. Recent studies have examined hypertrophic pachymeningitis as an IgG4-RD. However, there are no reports of immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related hypertrophic pachymeningitis with polycystic subdural hygroma.

    Authors: Kazumichi Ota, Yoshihiko Nakazato, Risa Okuda, Ryu Yokoyama, Hitoshi Kawasaki, Naotoshi Tamura and Toshimasa Yamamoto

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:228

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  44. We evaluated severe pain-related adverse events (SAE) during the percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) procedure performed by a neurointensivist and compared the outcomes with that of conventional surgi...

    Authors: Yong Oh Kim, Chi Ryang Chung, Chi-Min Park, Gee Young Suh and Jeong-Am Ryu

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:223

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  45. Thrombocytopenia (TP) has been shown to be an independent predictor of mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Studies are lacking in the neurological ICU (NICU) population. The aim was to evaluat...

    Authors: Dawei Zhou, Zhimin Li, Lei Wu, Guangzhi Shi and Jianxin Zhou

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:220

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  46. It is not well defined whether Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) patients with elevated serum creatine kinase (CK) levels have characteristic clinical features and are related to the subgroups of GBS.

    Authors: Takafumi Hosokawa, Hideto Nakajima, Taiki Sawai, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Eri Sano, Akihiro Tsukahara, Kiichi Unoda, Shimon Ishida, Sadaki Sakane, Fumiharu Kimura and Shigeki Arawaka

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:214

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  47. Routine test of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), such as glucose concentrations, chloride ion, protein and leukocyte, as well as color, turbidity and clot, were important indicators for intracranial infection. Howev...

    Authors: Tiantian Zhai, Zhong lian Fu, Yan bing Qiu, Qiang Chen, Dong Luo and Kaisen Chen

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:213

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  48. Concussion is the most common type of TBI, yet reliable objective measures related to these injuries and associated recovery processes remain elusive, especially in military personnel. The purpose of this stud...

    Authors: Katie A. Edwards, Jessica M. Gill, Cassandra L. Pattinson, Chen Lai, Misha Brière, Nicholas J. Rogers, Denise Milhorn, Jonathan Elliot and Walter Carr

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:209

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  49. Cerebellar degeneration as a consequence of a malignancy is a rare condition most commonly related to the presence of anti-Yo, anti-Hu, and anti-Tr/DNER antibodies. In recent years, several reports have indica...

    Authors: Philipp A. Loehrer, Lars Timmermann, Anika Pehl, Corinna I. Bien, Andreas Pfestroff and David J. Pedrosa

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:208

    Content type: Case report

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  50. We investigated the clinical course of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDoC), predictors of emergence from PDoC (EDoC), and the temporal dynamics of six neurobehavior domains based on the J...

    Authors: Hoo Young Lee, Jung Hyun Park, Ae Ryoung Kim, Misun Park and Tae-Woo Kim

    Citation: BMC Neurology 2020 20:198

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