Carbidopa-Levadopa Improves Speech Apraxia After Open Traumatic Brain Injury

Authors

James J. Bresnahan, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Philip J. Koehler III, DO, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Mithra B. Maneyapanda, MD, Thomas Jefferson University; Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation HospitalFollow

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Case Description

• A 24-year-old male with open traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to gunshot wound (GSW).
• Initial evaluation revealed a GCS of 3 with GSW to left arm, left abdomen, left flank, and left skull.
• Initial work up with CT-Head showed extensive subarachnoid hemorrhage and cerebral edema with residual bullet fragments in the posterior fossa.
• Thirty days later he was transferred to our rehabilitation hospital.

Publication Date

3-10-2020

Keywords

Carbidopa-Levadopa, TBI, speech apraxia

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Rehabilitation and Therapy

Comments

Presented at the 2020 Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting

Recommended Citation

Bresnahan, MD, James J.; Koehler III, DO, Philip J.; and Maneyapanda, MD, Mithra B., "Carbidopa-Levadopa Improves Speech Apraxia After Open Traumatic Brain Injury" (2020). Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Posters. 11.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/rmposters/11