Evaluation of stress hormones in traumatic brain injury patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Conclusions: Low Glasgow coma scale scores, low Hb, high concentrations of gastrin and ACTH (larger than 100 pg/ml) are risk factors and can be predictive values for post-traumatic GI bleeding. Severe TBI patients have high risks of GI bleeding with high mortality.
PMID: 20109364 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Chinese Journal of Traumatology)
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