Iftakher Hossain
MD
Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Turku University Hospital ifthos@utu.fi Department of Neurosurgery Turku University Hospital Office: TF4 |
traumatic brain injury, neurosurgery, neuroscience, cranial reconstruction, neurointensive care
In 2014 inspired by world famous Finnish neurosurgeon Prof. Juha Hernesniemi and Prof. Risto O. Roine, I planned to specialise in neurosurgery in Turku. At this moment, besides the basic clinical training in Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finalnd, I am also conducting my MD, PhD thesis in traumatic brain injury (TBI).
I am working on the clinical applications of the blood-based protein biomarkers in the diagnosis and the outcome prediction of TBIs. The theme of my project is: "Combining neuroimaging and blood biomarkers in the assessment of traumatic brain injuries."
The project has been awarded as the best neurosurgical research project in the field of TBI by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) in 2018.
Our multicentre (Finland, UK, Sweden and Switzerland) based traumatic brain injury research group has been working on the correlation between the blood biomarkers and the imaging tools to develop a novel approach for the proper diagnosis, treatment and follow-up evaluation of patients with TBI. The findings of the first manuscript and the theme of the doctoral thesis have been presented in the 7th International Conference on Biochemical Markers for Brain Damage (BMBD) 2015, Lund, Sweden and in the 6th South Asian Neurosurgical Congress 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh by the doctoral candidate. The novel idea for developing new diagnostic tools for TBI were also reported by the doctoral candidate in the 3rd Chinese Neurology and Neurosurgery Conference in December 2016. Moreover, the findings of the second manuscript have been highly appreciated in the 12th World Congress on Brain Injury, March, 2017, New Orleans, USA and was presented also in the 17th European Neurosurgical Congress 2017, October, Venice, Italy as an oral presentation by the doctoral candidate. Doctoral candidate has successfully presented the latest promising results of the third manuscript of his thesis project in the 18th Annual Congress of the EANS in October, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. It is expected that this doctoral thesis will provide excellent evidence for the utility of these biomarkers in the field of TBI diagnostics. Furthermore, it will also bring new collaborations in the fields of TBI research.
2019 - I am going to work as a part-time clinical lecturer in the department of neuroanatomy of University of Tartu from this Autumn.
- An outlier analysis for acute blood biomarkers of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (2024)
- Journal of Neurotrauma
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Blood biomarkers for traumatic brain injury: A narrative review of current evidence (2024)
- Brain and Spine
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Early management of adult traumatic spinal cord injury in patients with polytrauma: a consensus and clinical recommendations jointly developed by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) & the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) (2024)
- World Journal of Emergency Surgery
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Late Blood Levels of Neurofilament Light Correlate With Outcome in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury (2024)
- Journal of Neurotrauma
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Decompressive craniectomy following traumatic brain injury : the evidence we have (2023)
- Tehohoito
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Huge variability in restrictions of mobilization for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - A European survey of practice (2023)
- Brain and Spine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Increased Incidence and Mortality of Civilian Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury in Sweden: A Single-Center Registry-Based Study (2023)
- World Neurosurgery
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Plasma neurofilament light admission levels and development of axonal pathology in mild traumatic brain injury (2023)
- BMC Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The management of severe traumatic brain injury in the initial postinjury hours - current evidence and controversies (2023)
- Current Opinion in Critical Care
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Trajectories of Interleukin 10 and Heart Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Levels in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients with or without Extracranial Injuries (2023)
- Frontiers in Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Potential of heart fatty-acid binding protein, neurofilament light, interleukin-10 and S100 calcium-binding protein B in the acute diagnostics and severity assessment of traumatic brain injury (2022)
- Emergency Medicine Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tau as a fluid biomarker of concussion and neurodegeneration (2022)
- Concussion
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Consensus statement from the international consensus meeting on post-traumatic cranioplasty (2021)
- Acta Neurochirurgica
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Acute biochemical diagnostics of mild traumatic brain injury : A clinical study (2020) Hossain Iftakher
(Doctoral dissertation (article) (G5)) - Admission Levels of Interleukin 10 and Amyloid ß 1-40 Improve the Outcome Prediction Performance of the Helsinki Computed Tomography Score in Traumatic Brain Injury (2020)
- Frontiers in Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Admission Levels of Total Tau and β-Amyloid Isoforms 1–40 and 1–42 in Predicting the Outcome of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (2020)
- Frontiers in Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Interleukin 10 and Heart Fatty Acid-Binding Protein as Early Outcome Predictors in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury (2020)
- Frontiers in Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Correlation of blood biomarkers and biomarker panels with traumatic findings on computed tomography after traumatic brain injury (2019)
- Journal of Neurotrauma
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Early Levels of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Neurofilament Light Protein in Predicting the Outcome of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (2019)
- Journal of Neurotrauma
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - SAH-How do we treat ruptured intracranial aneurysms in a Finnish neurosurgical centre (2018) Hossain I, Rahi M, Takala R, Sankinen M, Posti JP, Roine R, Rinne J
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4))