Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage from Trauma and Ischemia - Recent Advances of our Understanding (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

The international interdisciplinary gathering of top of secondary brain damage in brain trauma, as ac- level clinical and laboratory scientists in Mauls, Italy knowledged from the beginning of these workshops in has developed from its beginning in 1984into a fruitful Mauls, the significance of inflammation is all but clear. tradition where worldwide experts active and knowl- Although inflammatory phenomena are seen in trauma edgeable in cerebral ischemia and trauma convene for and ischemia ofthe brain, as activation ofwhite blood update and exchanges of their most recent clinical and cells with emigration into the tissue presumably en- experimental findings and concepts. These meetings hancing damage, inflammatory cells may have benefi- have, of course, experienced shifts in emphasis from cial properties as well. Thechapter on the Janus-faceof the past until now, corresponding to the most actual inflammation isanalyzing this ambiguity. developments, which were fascinating clinicians and The exploration of novel cell-biological mechanisms laboratory scientists alike. The current Supplement of on a molecular or more systemic basis causing apop- Acta Neurochirurgica is an example in case. Its virtue totic cell death, inflammation, or regeneration, provide as before is that authors contribute articles in a review- useful objectives for therapeutical interventions ex- like manner on their own field of research, according pected to be more specific than the present treatment to the platform presentations at the meeting as indis- modalities.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Austria
Series:	Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, 89
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2004
Editors:	A. Baethmann • J. Eriskat • J. Lehmberg • N. Plesnila
Dimensions:	280 x 210 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	132
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-3-7091-7206-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Medicine > Surgery > Neurosurgery Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Intensive care medicine Promotions
LSN:	3-7091-7206-3
Barcode:	9783709172063

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