Table 1.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of study groups.
| No. | Age/years | Sex | Age/years | Sex | GCS | MLS (mm) | Discharge status | Age/years | Sex | Mechanism of cerebral injury | Day in the ICU | Brain death confirmation method | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Healthy volunteers | 29 | M | Patients with posttraumatic cerebral edema | 48 | M | 3 | 2 | Died | Patients with brain death | 50 | F | TBI | 2 | CE + CT perfusion |
| 2 | 46 | M | 26 | M | 13 | 0 | Home | 58 | M | Intracerebral hemorrhage | 2 | CE + TCD | |||
| 3 | 62 | M | 47 | M | 5 | 19 | Died | 40 | F | Cardiac arrest | 5 | CE | |||
| 4 | 41 | M | 29 | M | 7 | 9 | Home | 76 | M | Cardiac arrest | 8 | CE | |||
| 5 | 33 | F | 88 | F | 4 | 9 | Died | 20 | M | TBI | 6 | CE | |||
| 6 | 33 | M | 33 | M | 14 | 7 | Home | 34 | M | Intracerebral hemorrhage | 8 | CE | |||
| 7 | 35 | M | 39 | M | 3 | 4 | Died | 52 | F | Intracerebral hemorrhage | 23 | CE | |||
| 8 | 38 | M | 52 | F | 8 | 18 | Died | 47 | M | TBI | 11 | CE | |||
| 9 | 27 | M | 50 | M | 12 | 0 | Home | 65 | M | Cardiac arrest | 7 | CE | |||
| 10 | 86 | F | 5 | 9 | Died | 48 | M | Intoxication | 4 | CE | |||||
| 11 | 67 | M | 11 | 10 | Died | 46 | M | Intoxication, cardiac arrest | 4 | CE | |||||
| 12 | 54 | F | 12 | 3 | Home | 61 | M | Intoxication, cardiac arrest | 3 | CE + CT perfusion | |||||
| 13 | 63 | M | 13 | 0 | Home | 58 | F | Intracerebral hemorrhage | 20 | CE | |||||
| 14 | 24 | M | 7 | 0 | Home | ||||||||||
| 15 | 46 | M | 5 | 0 | Home |
No. - patient number, M - male, F - female, GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale score on admission, MLS – midline shift assessed from CT scan, TBI - traumatic brain injury, CE - clinical evaluation, CT - computed tomography, TCD- transcranial Doppler.
Cerebral edema group was characterized in details previously34.