2024 international conference on neuroprotective agents conference proceedings by William Slikker, Tucker A. Patterson, Slobodan M. Todorovic, Russell J. Andrews

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Global health, global surgery and mass casualties. I. Rationale for integrated mass casualty centres by Rifat Latifi, Kee B Park, Haitham Shoman, Lubna Samad, Luke Caddell, Patricia Garcia, Tariq Khan, Leonidas Quintana, Sergio Aguilera, Roxanna Garcia, Robert Dempsey, Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, Corey Scurlock, Montray Smith, Laura Lippa, Rashid Jooma, Russell J Andrews

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Predictores de vasoespasmo cerebral sintomático en la hemorragia subaracnoidea espontánea by Ezequiel López Espinosa, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Maira Sarmiento Matamoros

“…Low scores on the Glasgow Coma scale and high scores on the Hunt and Hess scale and the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies scale are related to the presence of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm in spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage. …”
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Age-dependent characteristics of specialized scale parameters in subarahnoidal hemorrhage of non-traumatic etiology by K. Yu. Polkovnikova

“…On hospital admission, grade I subarachnoid hemorrhage (mild) according to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies classification prevailed in patients under 40 years old and 40–60 years old; I–II grades were more often diagnosed in patients of 60 years old. …”
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Management of eight cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage using transpulmonary thermodilution during clazosentan therapy by Hiroto Iyota, Yasumasa Kawano, Hironori Fukumoto, Takato Tajiri, Mitsutoshi Iwaasa, Sinichi Morimoto, Yoshito Izutani, Shintaro Yamasaki, Kazuya Yamauchi, Hiroki Hatomoto, Hiroshi Abe, Yoshihiko Nakamura

“…The median World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies classification was 5 (interquartile range: 2–5), and the median Fisher classification was 3 (interquartile range: 3). …”
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The impact of the number of aneurysms on the course of the acute period of subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with multiple intracranial aneurysms by Yulia O. Solodovnikova, Anatoliy S. Son

“…Patients in group 2 were 1.9 times more likely to be admitted with a World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) grade 2 (p=0.335). …”
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Perimesencephalic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Bleeding Patterns Are Not Always Benign: Prognostic Impact of an Aneurysmal Pathology by Emily Hoffmann, Công Dùy Bui, David Ventura, Manfred Musigmann, Alexandra Valls Chavarria, Markus Holling, Vivek S. Yedavalli, Jeremy J. Heit, Christian Paul Stracke, Tobias D. Faizy, Hermann Krähling, Burak Han Akkurt

“…Logistic regression confirmed the presence of aneurysms as an independent factor associated with poor outcomes (OR = 21.6; 95% CI: 1.00−467.3; <i>p</i> = 0.050), while other variables such as age, sex, and World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) score were not statistically significant. …”
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Management of benign primary vertebral tumors: WFNS spine committee recommendations by Francesco Costa, Francesco Restelli, Niccolò Innocenti, Corinna Zygourakis, Zan Chen, Mirza Pojskic, Onur Yaman, Artem Gushcha, Salman Sharif, Mehmet Zileli

“…The results were discussed and voted in two consensus meetings of the WFNS (World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) Spine Committee, reaching a positive or negative consensus using the Delphi method. …”
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Neurosurgeons’ experiences of conducting and disseminating clinical research in low-income and middle-income countries: a reflexive thematic analysis by Angelos G Kolias, Tom Bashford, Anthony Figaji, Brandon George Smith, Charlotte Jane Whiffin, Ignatius N Esene, Claire Karekezi, Muhammad Mukhtar Khan, Davi Jorge Fontoura Solla, Peter John Hutchinson, Wellingson S Paiva

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The MARVIN Hypothesis: Linking Unhealthy Lifestyles to Intracranial Aneurysm Rupture Risk and Clinical Prognosis by Vanessa M. Swiatek, Igor Fischer, Rajiv Khajuria, Amir Amini, Hannah Steinkusch, Ali Rashidi, Klaus-Peter Stein, Claudia A. Dumitru, I. Erol Sandalcioglu, Belal Neyazi

“…Smokers with ruptured aneurysms had higher WFNS (World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) scores, but nicotine abuse did not affect long-term outcomes. …”
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Aging Leads to Poor Outcome after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage through Exacerbating Early Brain Injury by Tomofumi TAKENAKA, Masatoshi TAKAGAKI, Hajime NAKAMURA, Takeo NISHIDA, Masaaki TANIGUCHI, Akihiro TATEISHI, Maki KOBAYASHI, Shogo FUKUYA, Tomoaki MURAKAMI, Takeshi SHIMIZU, Takamune ACHIHA, Yuichi MATSUI, Shuhei YAMADA, Tatsumaru FUKUDA, Ryota NAKAGAWA, Takaki MATSUMURA, Hidekazu NAKATA, Yuhei HOSHIKUMA, Shingo TOYOTA, Akatsuki WAKAYAMA, Haruhiko KISHIMA

“…The older group showed a higher World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies grade (p < 0.001), higher Hijdra scale (p < 0.01), and higher proportion of acute hydrocephalus (p < 0.001) in both cohorts. …”
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Development and Validation of Machine Learning Models for Outcome Prediction in Patients with Poor-Grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Following Endovascular Treatment by Du S, Wu Y, Tao J, Shu L, Yan T, Xiao B, Lv S, Ye M, Gong Y, Zhu X, Hu P, Wu M

“…Age (Adjusted OR [aOR], 1.08; 95% CI: 1.03– 1.13; p = 0.002), subarachnoid hemorrhage volume (aOR, 1.02; 95% CI: 1.00– 1.05; p = 0.033), World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies grade (WFNS) (aOR, 2.03; 95% CI: 1.05– 3.93; p = 0.035), and Hunt-Hess grade (aOR, 2.36; 95% CI: 1.13– 4.93; p = 0.022) were identified as the independent risk factors of the poor outcome. …”
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Perimesencephalic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Is Not Always a Benign Condition: Hemorrhage Volume as a Predictor for Complications and Clinical Outcome by Emily Hoffmann, Công Duy Bùi, Alexandra Valls Chavarria, Michael Müther, Markus Holling, Manfred Musigmann, Max Masthoff, Mostafa Ergawy, Tobias D. Faizy, Christian Paul Stracke, Hermann Krähling, Burak Han Akkurt

“…The median World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) score for all patients at admission was 1.0 (IQR 1.0–1.0). …”
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Intra-procedural thromboembolic events during coiling of ruptured cerebral aneurysm: a retrospective pilot analysis by Mohamed M.A. Zaitoun, Mona Mahmoud Eladl, Mahmoud Mounir Higazi, Ahmed M Alawamry, Nahla M.A. Zaitoun, Adel M. Othman, Ibrahim M . Eladl

“…The World Federation of Neurosurgical Society (WFNS) grading system was used to evaluate the clinical status of patients. …”
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