Open AccessTraumatic Microbleeds in the Hippocampus and Corpus Callosum Predict Duration of Posttraumatic Amnesia
Author(s) -
Nicole Mazwi,
Saef Izzy,
Can Ozan Tan,
Sergi Martinez,
Mel B. Glenn,
Joseph T. Giacino,
Ona Wu,
Ross Zafonte,
Brian L. Edlow
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of head trauma rehabilitation/journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1550-509X
pISSN - 0885-9701
DOI - 10.1097/htr.0000000000000479
Subject(s) - corpus callosum , amnesia , glasgow coma scale , medicine , cardiology , hippocampus , coma (optics) , magnetic resonance imaging , psychology , anesthesia , pathology , radiology , psychiatry , physics , optics
Radiologic predictors of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) duration are lacking. We hypothesized that the number and distribution of traumatic microbleeds (TMBs) detected by gradient recalled echo (GRE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) predicts PTA duration.