Published in:
01-02-2015 | Letter
What is Early Brain Injury?
Author:
Hidenori Suzuki
Published in:
Translational Stroke Research
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Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
The term “early brain injury (EBI)” that was introduced in 2004 [
1] is a concept to explain acute pathophysiological events that occur in brain before onset of cerebral vasospasm within the first 72 h of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). EBI is now believed to be more important than cerebral vasospasm, a classically important determinant of poor outcome, in post-SAH outcome [
2‐
4]. …