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Brain Death and Slippery Slopes
The definition-of-death debate has proved surprisingly intractable. Since the introduction of the distinction between the so-called whole-brain and higher-brain concepts of death in the mid-1970s, great concern has been expressed that any move to a ...
Veatch, Robert M.
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Long‐Term Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy—A 10‐Year Follow Up Study
ABSTRACT Objective Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG) is a rare but potentially treatable cause of severe autonomic failure. Evidence guiding long‐term immunotherapy, treatment sequencing, and residual autonomic impairment is limited. We evaluated long‐term treatment response, residual autonomic dysfunction, and relapse patterns in patients with
Giacomo Chiaro +6 more
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The Logical Status of Brain Death Criteria
Agich and Jones attempt to clarify what they see as a confusion in the brain death literature between logical sufficiency/necessity and natural sufficiency/necessity when criteria for death are discussed. A logically sufficient criterion for determining
Jones, Royce P., Agich, George J.
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Clinical Impact of NOTCH3 Variant Location After First Stroke in CADASIL
ABSTRACT Objective Despite its monogenic origin, Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy exhibits marked variability in clinical expression and severity. Variants in the NOTCH3 gene, within epidermal growth factor‐like repeat domains 1–6 or 7–34, are known to influence disease onset, but their impact ...
Léa Aguilhon +5 more
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Spinal reflexes and brain death
Michael Nair-Collins
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Brain Stem Death and Organ Donation
Organs for donation are in short supply in the United Kingdom, resulting in allegations that relatives of potential donors are not being asked for consent. Legislation on "required request" has been proposed to overcome this.
and Park, G.R. +3 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the demographic, clinical, and laboratory features of the Chinese patients of genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease with T188K variant (T188K‐gCJD), the most common subtype of genetic prion diseases (gPrDs) in China. Methods In this nationwide retrospective study, data from 98 genetically confirmed T188K‐gCJD patients ...
Chun‐Jie Li +11 more
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The Concept of Death and Deceased Organ Donation
An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem is dead. A person is not dead unless his brain is dead.
Francis Delmonico
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Increasing violent deaths and organ transplantation in Brazil: is there a parallel?
Mortality from violent causes has significantly increased in Brazil, as well as the number of deceased-donor organ transplantation. Although the increase in the number of transplants correlates with higher organ availability, through the increase in ...
Juliana Gomes Ramalho de Oliveira +3 more
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rans Plantation of origans of Brain Deads in Islamic law (1379) [PDF]
The soul does its duties by brain which are foresight and manipulation, therefore at the time of death, the soul leaves the body. There is difference between death of organs and the whole body, because some organs are still alive after death.
Ali Asghar Hatami, Neda masodi
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