What is it about?
This paper examines a potential treatment of severe brain swelling using an osmotic transport device. Our device reduces mortality from brain swelling in mice.
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Why is it important?
The only available treatment for severe brain edema is to open the skull. There are a number of risk factors for this treatment, including a long treatment time which increases infection chance. We propose to use a device in combination with the craniectomy (opening of the skull) to greatly reduce the length of treatment for severe brain swelling.
Perspectives
This device combines with the gold standard treatment and may reduce treatment length, complications of the gold standard, and reduce morbidity and mortality from severe brain swelling.
Devin McBride
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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This page is a summary of: Improved survival following cerebral edema using a novel hollow fiber-hydrogel device, Journal of Neurosurgery, June 2012, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG),
DOI: 10.3171/2012.2.jns111540.
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