Long term outcome in patients with severe head injury and bilateral fixed dilated pupils.
Neurol India
; 2002 Dec; 50(4): 430-5
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ABSTRACT
Patients with severe head injury with bilateral dilated unreactive pupils are considered to have a grave prognosis. Hence proper planning and aggressive management becomes mandatory for achieving good results. We present the outcome of consecutive 166 patients with severe head injury, admitted between January 1996 and December 2000 and analysed retrospectively. All the patients had an initial GCS of 8 or less and post resuscitation bilateral dilated unreactive pupils. Our aim was to analyze the long term outcome in these patients and identify the other significant prognostic factors. Of the 166 patients, 42 (25.30%) had a functional outcome (good recovery in 10.24%, moderate disability in 15.06%), and 124 (74.69%) had a poor outcome (death in 58.43% and severe disability in 16.26% of cases). There were 45 patients with polytrauma and 24 of these patients (53.33%) succumbed to the injuries. Obliteration of the basal cisterns and contusion were the common CT scan findings. Factors adversely affecting the survival included age of the patient, polytrauma with shock, initial GCS of 3 or 4, and compression of the basal cisterns on the initial CT scans. At follow up, most of the patients with a functional outcome showed a significant improvement in their motor function but continued to have neuro-behavioral and cognitive deficits.
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الفهرس:
IMSEAR
الموضوع الرئيسي:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Trauma Severity Indices
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Pupil Disorders
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Longitudinal Studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
نوع الدراسة:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
اللغة:
En
مجلة:
Neurol India
السنة:
2002
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Article