Brain biomarkers and pre-injury cognition are associated with long-term cognitive outcome in children with traumatic brain injury

• Main Authors: Amy A. Wilkinson (Author), Maureen Dennis (Author), Nevena Simic (Author), Margot J. Taylor (Author), Benjamin R. Morgan (Author), Helena Frndova (Author), Karen Choong (Author), Craig Campbell (Author), Douglas Fraser (Author), Vicki Anderson (Author), Anne-Marie Guerguerian (Author), Russell Schachar (Author), Jamie Hutchison (Author), For the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) (Author), The Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group (CCCTBG) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are frequently at risk of long-term impairments of attention and executive functioning but these problems are difficult to predict. Although deficits have been reported to vary with injury severity, age at injury and sex, prognostication...