Association between concomitant traumatic brain injury and unfavorable 1-year outcomes in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury
Patients with tSCI and cTBI experience worse functional outcomes and have reduced QOL 1 year after injury. Targeted rehabilitation programs could benefit patients with cTBI in the setting of tSCI.
Authors
- Sruthi Ranganathan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0684-4263)
- Daniel Lubelski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-9509)
- Kelly Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1144-7882)
- James Byrne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3517-5110)
- Kathleen R. Ran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-7534)
- Timothy Chryssikos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4550-4125)
- Timothy F. Witham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9397-8344)
- Saad Javeed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9213-924X)
- Carlos A. Aude (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1253-1998)
- Tej D. Azad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7823-4294)
- Jawad M. Khalifeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5726-6884)
- Gary Schwartzbauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1799-6954)
- Nicholas Theodore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-2683)
- Jacob Jo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-3507)
- Liam P. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-5151)
- Carly Weber-Levine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2057-8419)
- Ali Bydon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-1470)
- Vikas N. Vattipally (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6920-2311)
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Vancouver General Hospital (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3171/2025.3.spine241470
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.94