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Legal Aspects of Brain Death

open access: yesTürk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2023
Brain death is a medical diagnosis. A person who is diagnosed as brain dead is considered dead both medically and legally. Medical support is required in organ donor cases, the purpose of medical support is organ preservation.
Dilek Özcengiz
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Pathophysiology of Brain Stem Death

open access: yesAmrita Journal of Medicine, 2020
Brain stem death (BD) is a pathological process which has a profound effect on hemodynamic balance, hormone levels and functioning of other organ systems. It also triggers a systemic inflammatory response.
Eldo Issac, Sarath Venugopalan
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Brain Death and Special Circumstances

open access: yesTürk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2023
The basis for the diagnosis of brain death (BD) is defined for the detection of a clinical condition with minimal criteria. The patient’s current condition or the presence of organ support treatments for efforts to keep the patient alive in this process ...
Kerem Erkalp
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Brain death: a clinical overview

open access: yesJournal of Intensive Care, 2022
Brain death, also commonly referred to as death by neurologic criteria, has been considered a legal definition of death for decades. Its determination involves many considerations and subtleties.
William Spears, Asim Mian, David Greer
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Evaluation of brain death due to methanol intoxication

open access: yesNeurological Sciences and Neurophysiology, 2022
Objective: Intoxication may mimic brain death and cause brain death. In the literature, brain death due to methanol intoxication is limited to case reports. In this report, patients with methanol intoxication who had findings of imminent brain death were
Tugce Mengi   +5 more
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A CLINICO-NEUROPATHOLOGICAL STUDY ON BRAIN DEATH [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
1993-11-25A clinico-neuropathological study was conducted on 60 cases of brain death, 36 males and 24 females, ranging in age from 11 to 81 years, the average being 49.4 years. Of these, 29 patients died of cerebrovascular disease.
TAKAHASHI, AKIRA   +2 more
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Morte cerebral: do medo de ser enterrado vivo ao mito do dador vivo.

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa, 2004
To analyse the historical evolution of the clinical concept "brain death", and discuss the concepts: whole-brain death and brainstem death in clinical perspective.Taphophobia means the fear of premature burial. Its modern equivalent is the fear of organs
Fernando Pita, Cátia Carmona
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Overview of Organ Donation

open access: yesMexican Journal of Medical Research ICSA, 2023
Organ and tissue donation is defined as the transfer of human cells, tissues and organs from a donor to a recipient; it is the only therapeutic option that helps to improve the quality of life and prevent the death of people with tissue or organ failure.
Karla Jiménez Oliver
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A Gift of Generosity—An Explanation of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation for Muslim Audiences

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Diseased Organ and tissue donation and transplantation entails removing organ and tissues from someone (the donor) and transplanting them into another person (the recipient).
Mohammad Abdus Sayek Khan
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Programmed cell death in type II neuroblast lineages is required for central complex development in the Drosophila brain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: The number of neurons generated by neural stem cells is dependent upon the regulation of cell proliferation and by programmed cell death.
Heinrich Reichert   +5 more
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