(Pregnancy News) Pregnancy hormone may help with brain injury (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In adult patients with traumatic brain injury, treatment with the pregnancy-supporting hormone progesterone may improve outcomes — especially in cases of moderate injury — according to a report in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Wright from the School of Medicine at Emory University, Atlanta, and colleagues conducted a trial to assess the safety and potential benefit of administering intravenous progesterone to 100 patients with brain injury. Progesterone patients remained in coma longer than placebo patients, the report indicates, but just 13 percent of progesterone-treated patients died within 30 days of injury compared with 30. On the other hand, at 30 days, survivors of severe brain injury who had received placebo were slightly less disabled than those who had received progesterone, the report indicates. Patients with moderate traumatic brain injury who had received progesterone were significantly less disabled than those who had received placebo. read more

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