Open Access<p>Serum Cleaved Tau Protein and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Minor Head Trauma</p>
Author(s) -
Arash Forouzan,
Hassan Motamed,
Ali Delirrooyfard,
Sara Zallaghi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open access emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1179-1500
DOI - 10.2147/oaem.s217424
Subject(s) - medicine , traumatic brain injury , biomarker , emergency department , concussion , head trauma , head injury , observational study , computed tomography , gastroenterology , surgery , poison control , emergency medicine , injury prevention , psychiatry , biochemistry , chemistry
Minor head trauma is due to the transfer of a mechanical energy to the brain caused by a traumatic event. The present study was accomplished aiming to investigate the cleaved tau protein (CTP) as a brain injury biomarker among patients with minor head trauma.