A Comparative Study of the Effects of Early Versus Late Cranioplasty on Cognitive Function

Cranioplasty (CP) after decompressive craniectomy (DC) is associated with neurological improvement. We evaluated neurological recovery in patients who underwent late CP (more than 6 months after DC) in comparison with early CP. This prospective study of 51 patients investigated neurological function using the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Barthel Index (BI), and Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) prior to and after CP. Most patients with traumatic brain injury (74%) were young (mean age 33.4 ± 12.2 years) and male (33/51; 66%). There were general improvements in the patients' cognition and functional status, especially in the late-CP group. The ACE-R score increased from the time point before CP to 3 days after CP (51 ± 28.94 versus 53.1 ± 30.39, P = 0.016) and 90 days after CP (51 ± 28.94 versus 58.10 ± 30.43, P = 0.0001). In the late-CP group, increments also occurred from the time point before CP to 90 days after CP in terms of the MMSE score (18.54 ± 1.51 versus 20.34 ± 1.50, P = 0.003), BI score (79.84 ± 4.66 versus 85.62 ± 4.10, P = 0.028), and mRS score (2.07 ± 0.22 versus 1.74 ± 0.20, P = 0.015). CP is able to improve neurological outcomes even more than 6 months after DC.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:131

Enthalten in:

Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement - 131(2021) vom: 10., Seite 75-78

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rynkowski, Carla B [VerfasserIn]
Robba, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
de Oliveira, Ricardo Vigolo [VerfasserIn]
Fabretti, Rodrigo [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Thais Malickovski [VerfasserIn]
Kolias, Angelos G [VerfasserIn]
Finger, Guilherme [VerfasserIn]
Czosnyka, Marek [VerfasserIn]
Bianchin, Marino Muxfeldt [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cerebral hemodynamics
Cognition
Cranioplasty
Functional recovery
Journal Article

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Date Completed 04.06.2021

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/978-3-030-59436-7_16

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323948936