REHABILITATION OF MODERATE TO SEVERE TBI:
NEUROENDOCRINE DISORDERS
Neuroendocrine dysfunction following TBI can include
hypertension, abnormalities of appetite regulation or control, temperature
lability, thyroid dysfunction, fluid regulation disorders, gonadal dysfunction,
and immunosuppression. Click Post Head Injury Endocrine Complications, 2006 chapter in eMedicine by Milton J. Klein, DO. (Click on
Hypertension for information that appears
elsewhere in this manual).
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Based on information in Medical Rehabilitation
of Traumatic Brain Injury, L.J. Horn and N.D. Zasler, eds. St. Louis, MO,
Mosby, 1996, except for information where other papers are cited.
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