Plasma von Willebrand Factor Is Elevated Hyperacutely After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Each year in the United States, ∼2.7 million persons seek medical attention for traumatic brain injury (TBI), of which ∼85% are characterized as being mild brain injuries. Many different cell types in the brain are affected in these heterogeneous injuries, including neurons, glia, and the brain vasculature.

Tethered brain: disentangling unintentional brain-mesh interfaces. Illustrative case.

Background: Surgical meshes have found widespread use in neurosurgical practice. While commonly recognized risks of synthetic mesh include infection, exposure of mesh implants, and foreign body reaction, the risk of mesh tethering to neural structures is often overlooked.

Observations: The authors presented the first case, to their knowledge, of the disentanglement of mesh interfaced to cortical tissue.

A case of dual three-column thoracic spinal fractures following traumatic injury.

Background: Thoracic spine fracture-dislocations due to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) rarely involve double- level, noncontiguous lesions.

Case Description: A 19-year-old male following an MVA was paraplegic; he exhibited full motor/sensory loss below the T4 level (i.e.

Arteriogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Presenting as Cervical Radiculopathy.

Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is an infrequent entity encountered by medical practitioners attributed to compression of the neurovascular structures passing through the thoracic outlet. Here, we report the presentation of a young adult who was referred for workup of cervical radiculopathy and was planned to undergo an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. A dynamic cerebral angiogram was performed and confirmed the diagnosis of arteriogenic TOS.

Plasma creatine kinase B correlates with injury severity and symptoms in professional boxers.

Introduction: Each year in the United States, approximately 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Of these TBI events, about 75 percent are characterized as being mild brain injuries.