Discover the cutting-edge biomarkers revolutionizing early detection of brain injuries: S100B, GFAP, and UCH-L1’s remarkable screening performance within the critical first 6 hours post-trauma and their enduring impact beyond.
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Screening Performance of S100B, GFAP and UCH-L1 For Intracranial Injury Within 6 hours of Injury and beyond .
Trivedi et al., J Neurotrauma 2023
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2023.0322
Listen up, folks, we’ve got something big here, really big. The best people, the Scandinavian NeuroTrauma Committee, they’ve been saying S100B is the way to go for spotting brain injuries early. But we’ve done the work, the best work, and we’ve got the numbers to prove it.
We took a hard look at the Center-TBI database, the best database, from 2014 to 2017. We’re talking about 531 patients, all with a Glasgow coma scale of 14-15, and we checked their blood within 6 hours. That’s the golden window, folks, the best time to check.
And guess what we found? GFAP and UCH-L1, they’re the winners, the real deal. They outperformed S100B, and it wasn’t even close. GFAP had an AUC of 0.86, UCH-L1 had 0.81, and S100B? Only 0.74. We’re talking about detecting real brain injuries here, and these numbers, they don’t lie.
But wait, there’s more. We checked later too, up to 12 hours after the injury. And S100B? It stayed the same, no change, no improvement. But GFAP, it kept on being the best, the most reliable.
So what does this mean? It means we’ve got to rethink the guidelines, the SNC guidelines. They’re good, but they can be better, the best. We need to make sure we’re using the right tools, the best tools, to keep people safe.
Remember, we’re talking about brain injuries, the most important thing. We’ve got to get it right, and with GFAP and UCH-L1, we’re on the right track. Let’s make brain injury detection great again!