Poor prognostic factors in elderly patients aged 75 years old or older with mild traumatic brain injury

Publication date: Available online 17 June 2019Source: Journal of Clinical NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Soichiro Seno, Satoshi Tomura, Kenichiro Ono, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Hisashi Ikeuchi, Daizoh SaitohAbstractThe incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in elderly patients is increasing. We retrospectively investigated the poor prognostic factors at discharge in elderly patients aged 75 years or older admitted to hospital with mild TBI. We continuously enrolled 83 patients aged 75 years or older with mild TBI, in a private general Japanese hospital. The Glasgow Coma Scale scores on admission were within the range of 13–15. Patients with good recovery or moderate disability were included in the “good outcome” group, and those with severe disability, in a persistent vegetative state, or who died were included in the “poor outcome” group. We performed statistical analyses using 8 parameters. We conducted a univariate analysis on each item. Next, we conducted a logistic regression analysis on variables where the p < 0.20 in the univariate analysis.Elderly patients had a poor prognosis when they had dementia (odds ratio [OR]: 20.357, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.075–199.683, p = 0.010), cancer (OR: 14.005, 95% CI: 1.262–154.444, p = 0.032), or a history of antithrombotic therapy before admission (OR: 6.673, 95% CI: 1.072–41.526, p = 0.042). When elderly patients aged 75 years or older with mild TBI have the 3 poor prognostic factors of dementia...
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research