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Clinical Trials in Head Injury
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major public health problem globally. In the United States the incidence of closed head injuries admitted to hospitals is conservatively estimated to be 200 per 100,000 population, and the incidence of penetrating head injury is estimated to be 12 per 100,000, the highest of any developed country in the world. This yields an approximate number of 500,000 new cases each year, a sizeable proportion of which demonstrate significant long-term disabilities. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of proven therapies for this disease. For a variety of reasons, clinical trials for this condition have been difficult to design and perform. Despite promising pre-clinical data, most of the trials that have been performed in recent years have failed to demonstrate any significant improvement in outcomes. The reasons for these failures have not always been apparent and any insights gained were not always shared. It was therefore feared that we were running the risk of repeating our mistakes. Recognizing the importance of TBI, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) sponsored a workshop that brought together experts from clinical, research, and pharmaceutical backgrounds. This workshop proved to be very informative and yielded many insights into previous and future TBI trials. This paper is an attempt to summarize the key points made at the workshop. It is hoped that these lessons will enhance the planning and design of future efforts in this important field of research.
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Executive disorders and perceived socio‐emotional changes after traumatic brain injury
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BackgroundNanoparticle-Based Technology Approaches to the Management of Neurological Disorders
Sim, T. M., Dinesh, T., Dheen, S. T., Bay, B., & Srinivasan, D. K. (2020) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms21176070 · Cited by 84
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BackgroundA Method for Reducing Misclassification in the Extended Glasgow Outcome Score
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“However, none has shown considerable promise (Maas, 2000, 2001; Machado et al., 1999; Narayan et al., 2002).”
Nicotinamide reduces acute cortical neuronal death and edema in the traumatically injured brain.
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“5 million patients per year in the United States, causes 50,000 deaths [7,25,37] and generates an enormous economic burden in longterm disability [27,42].”
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“20,21 Therefore, confronted with a patient with a traumatic ASDH, clinicians have to deal with multiple clinical and radiological variables, in a very limited time frame and with a shortage of data or predictive outcomes.”
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“The heterogeneity of TBI, with distinct pathophysiologies and mechanisms associated with contusions, hemorrhages and diffuse axonal injuries, added to a panoply of variable host factors, likely contributes to the recurrent failure of large head injury treatment trials (60, 74).”
Effects of Glasgow Outcome Scale Misclassification on Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trials
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“These include: calcium channel blockers, corticosteroids, excitatory amino acids inhibitors, NMDA receptor antagonists, anti-inflammatory drugs, free radical scavengers, magnesium sulfate, and growth factors (20).”
BackgroundSelf-citationBexarotene protects against traumatic brain injury in mice partially through apolipoprotein E
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InfluentialThe Effect of Progesterone Dose on Gene Expression after Traumatic Brain Injury
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“Indeed, despite extensive research in the field, many of the proposed therapies that have advanced to Phase II and III clinical trials have failed to show consistent neuroprotection (Narayan et al., 2002).”
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“Number of patients (% total) 3,179 (100) 885 (28) 549 (17) 785 (25) 960 (30)”
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“This major health issue is compounded by the limited number of pharmacological treatments that are currently available for patients suffering head injuries, which is surprising because of the amount of effort invested into finding such treatments (Statler et al., 2001; Narayan et al., 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Narayan, R. K., Michel, M. E., Ansell, B., Baethmann, A., Biegon, A., Bracken, M. B., Bullock, M. R., Choi, S. C., Clifton, G. L., Contant, C. F., Coplin, W. M., Dietrich, W. D., Ghajar, J., Grady, S. M., Grossman, R. G., Hall, E. D., Heetderks, W., Hovda, D. A., Jallo, J., Katz, R. L., Knoller, N., Kochanek, P. M., Maas, A. I., Majde, J., Marion, D. W., Marmarou, A., Marshall, L. F., McIntosh, T. K., Miller, E., Mohberg, N., Muizelaar, J. P., Pitts, L. H., Quinn, P., Riesenfeld, G., Robertson, C. S., Strauss, K. I., Teasdale, G., Temkin, N., Tuma, R., Wade, C., Walker, M. D., Weinrich, M., Whyte, J., Wilberger, J., Young, A. B., & Yurkewicz, L.
- Affiliations
- Temple University Hospital (US)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Wayne State University (US)
- University of Miami (US)
- Brain Trauma Foundation (US)
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Pfizer (United States) (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Temple University (US)
- United States Food and Drug Administration (US)
- Sheba Medical Center (IL)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam (NL)
- Office of Naval Research (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Southern General Hospital (GB)
- University of Washington (US)
- Allegheny General Hospital (US)
- Albert B. Chandler Hospital (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Neurotrauma
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 503-557
- ISSN
- 0897-7151 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-9042
- PMC
- PMC1462953
- OpenAlex
- W2045663952
- Cited by
- 913
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 20.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Neurotrauma (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (7r01ns038654-04)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01-NS038654)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Keywords
- traumatic brain injury, clinical trial design, closed head injury, penetrating head injury, translational research, treatment failure, long-term disability
- MeSH terms
- Brain Injuries, Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans
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