Publication details
The Influence of Various Localized Brain Lesions on the Occurrence of Immune System Disorders and Extracranial Complications in Patients after Severe Brain Injury
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Psychaitrie |
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| Field | Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences |
| Keywords | severe brain injury; extracranial complications; immunity |
| Description | Severe brain injuries change definitly cellular as well as humoral part of immunity. While cellular part seems to be suppressed, antibodies change depending on the occurrence of extracranial inflammatory complications. Left located focal brain damage causes higher decrease of immune system parameters and it results to a higher occurrence of extracranial complications and finaly to the increase of the mortality. |
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