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Point-of-care biomarker assay predicts traumatic brain injury in minutes – News-Medical.Net
Intracranial abnormalities on CT scan in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be predicted by glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels in the blood.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 16 2020
<spanarial”,sans-serif”><spanarial”,sans-serif”><spancalibri”,sans-serif”>Intracranial abnormalities on CT scan in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be predicted by glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels in the blood. These interim findings from the TRACK-TBI study are published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurotrauma.
<spanarial”,sans-serif”>GFAP’s diagnostic performance was significantly better tha…
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