Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characteristics of Persistent Vegetative State Due to Prolonged Hypoglycemia [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Hypoglycemia is the sudden decrease in serum glucose level
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
The Lancet, 1992 Persistent vegetative state (PVS) was first described in 1972 and refers to a clinical condition in which there is a lack of self-awareness (complete unawareness of the self) despite the patient having sleep–wake cycles, other basic reflexes (such as blinking or withdrawing the hand when it is squeezed hard), being capable of spontaneous breathing, and
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Responsiveness of a patient in a persistent vegetative state after a coma to weekly injections of autologous activated immune cells: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction An 82-year-old Caucasian woman had remained in a persistent vegetative state after a coma of seven months duration, which occurred after a stroke with hemiplegia, nine years previously.
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Brainstem neurons survive the identical ischemic stress that kills higher neurons: insight to the persistent vegetative state. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Global ischemia caused by heart attack, pulmonary failure, near-drowning or traumatic brain injury often damages the higher brain but not the brainstem, leading to a 'persistent vegetative state' where the patient is awake but not aware. Approximately 30,
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 2001 This week, two articles discuss the problems encountered by relatives and professionals caring for people in the persistent vegetative state (pp 352 and 372). This high profile and ethically challenging form of coma has thousands of web pages devoted to it, some crankier than others. If you want a professional view it's always best to start at the top,
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Personhood and the Persistent Vegetative State [PDF]
The Linacre Quarterly, 1990 Smith, Philip
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Recovery of the ascending reticular activating system and consciousness following comprehensive management in a patient with traumatic brain injury: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science, 2022 We report on changes in the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) concurrent with the recovery of impaired consciousness following rehabilitation and cranioplasty in a patient with traumatic brain injury (TBI), which were demonstrated on diffusion
Sung Ho Jang, Young Hyeon Kwon
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The persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 Patients in a vegetative state seem to be awake with their eyes open but show no evidence of awareness.1 They do not interact with others and make no purposeful or voluntary responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli. They are able to breathe spontaneously, and they retain their gag, cough, sucking, and swallowing reflexes.
R S, Howard, D H, Miller
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Persistent vegetative state: an overview
Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2021 Background Disorder of consciousness diagnosis, especially when is classified as persistent vegetative state (without misestimating the other diagnosis classifications), in the intensive care is an important diagnosis to evaluate and treat.
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