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Letter to the editor for ‘Physiological and radiological parameters predicting outcome from penetrating traumatic brain injury treated in the deployed military setting’
  1. Marios Lampros,
  2. E-S Alexiou,
  3. L Vlachodimitropoulou,
  4. G Alexiou and
  5. S Voulgaris
  1. Neurosurgery, University of Ioannina, School of Medicine, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
  1. Correspondence to Professor G Alexiou; galexiou{at}Uoi.gr

https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2024-002840

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    We read with great interest the recent article by Breeze et al.1 The authors studied 55 patients operated on for penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) associated with military casualties, aiming to identify physiological and radiological risk factors related to survival and neurological outcomes. Patients with increased glucose levels and hypotension at admission were found to have an increased mortality rate, and glucose was also found to be correlated with a poor neurological outcome.

    Following TBI, blood …

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    • Contributors GA is the guarantor.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.