Blood test to detect traumatic brain injury could reduce unnecessary CT scans

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) New study results show that a simple blood test to measure brain-specific proteins released after a person suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reliably predict both evidence of TBI on radiographic imaging and injury severity. The potential benefit of adding detection of glial fibrillary acidic protein breakdown products (GFAP-BDP) to clinical screening with computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging is described in an article publi...