Citation

Kurihara M, Kumagai K, Watanabe M, Noda Y. No To Hattatsu 1996; 28(3): 243-250.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Kanagawa Rehabilitation Center, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Shindan to Chiryosha)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8688210

Abstract

We investigated prognosis of 12 children with severe head injury, whose Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was less than 8 during the acute period. We divided the cases into two groups according to the age of incidence: less than 4 years (6 cases) and more than 4 years (6 cases). We examined the acute conditions (cause, type of the lesion, GCS, period of consciousness loss) and the present status (disability, intelligence quotient: IQ, functional independence measure: FIM). We used IQ and FIM scores for the indices to assess prognosis, and compared those two groups. IQ and FIM scores were better in the group whose onset was under 4 years. This difference was thought to be related to the greater plasticity and to the rehabilitation effect in younger brain.

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